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Okla-homey
3/28/2009, 01:26 PM
If Queen Elizabeth I had not been a virgin, would the state above NC be named "Conjugalia" today?
Frozen Sooner
3/28/2009, 01:33 PM
Whoristan has a nice ring to it.
NYC Poke
3/28/2009, 01:36 PM
Putitinya.
Okla-homey
3/28/2009, 01:45 PM
I like Slutsylvania myself.
King Crimson
3/28/2009, 02:17 PM
things that are posted as "history" that use the phrase Ronaldus Magnus.
Viking Kitten
3/28/2009, 03:55 PM
West Bimbolina?
Frozen Sooner
3/28/2009, 04:03 PM
things that are posted as "history" that use the phrase Ronaldus Magnus.

Eh. Catherine of Russia receives the epithet "Great" all the time. She ****ed horses.
King Crimson
3/28/2009, 04:13 PM
Eh. Catherine of Russia receives the epithet "Great" all the time. She ****ed horses.

next time "history" is made outside a cheesebag, revisionist Ron Reagan Rebublican theory of the world called TV history....you let me know.
Viking Kitten
3/28/2009, 04:28 PM
If it makes any difference, most historians agree Elizabeth probably wasn't actually a virgin. If Thomas Seymour didn't knock a chunk off of that, then Robert Dudley almost certainly did.
NYC Poke
3/28/2009, 04:28 PM
I bet monitoring her wikipedia entry is a full-time job.


eta: I hear her appetite for sex, however, was . . . um . . . unbridled.
mdklatt
3/28/2009, 06:30 PM
Vaginia
Octavian
3/28/2009, 07:36 PM
the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, Roman, or imperial.
Viking Kitten
3/28/2009, 07:36 PM
Hohio.
Frozen Sooner
3/28/2009, 07:53 PM
Thinking about it, the state motto of "Virginia Is for Lovers" just doesn't jibe. Rather contradictory. WHORISTAN Is for Lovers makes much more sense.
Okla-homey
3/29/2009, 08:01 AM
next time "history" is made outside a cheesebag, revisionist Ron Reagan Rebublican theory of the world called TV history....you let me know.

Wake up man. History, perhaps more so than any other discipline, is very subjective. Even contemporary first-person accounts are skewed by the writers/diarists/interviewees point-of-view and personal prejudices. I'm pretty sure you are aware of that fact. Ever play "post office?" Add to that the fact that the victor controls the field and typically writes the "definitive" history of a given event, and you have a recipe for a subjective account.

Where it not so, courts and lawyers wouldn't have to spend so much time engaged in discovery to ascertain what they ultimately settle on as the facts of a given case, and even then, a jury is still required to pick the winner from two competing versions of the truth.
swardboy
3/29/2009, 02:55 PM
Sexahoma
Viking Kitten
3/29/2009, 03:53 PM
Roadwhore Island
SanJoaquinSooner
3/29/2009, 04:13 PM
The Big Valley
Viking Kitten
3/29/2009, 05:54 PM
Floozyville, USA
NYC Poke
3/29/2009, 06:01 PM
Connecticu . . . nah, can't do it. :O
NYC Poke
3/29/2009, 06:03 PM
Hollywould
Viking Kitten
3/29/2009, 10:13 PM
New Trampshire
SoonerAtKU
3/30/2009, 11:06 AM
New Trampshire is my winner. Nicely done.

Mount-Anna?
swardboy
3/30/2009, 12:14 PM
Holland?
sitzpinkler
3/30/2009, 03:44 PM
Wake up man. History, perhaps more so than any other discipline, is very subjective. Even contemporary first-person accounts are skewed by the writers/diarists/interviewees point-of-view and personal prejudices. I'm pretty sure you are aware of that fact. Ever play "post office?" Add to that the fact that the victor controls the field and typically writes the "definitive" history of a given event, and you have a recipe for a subjective account.

Where it not so, courts and lawyers wouldn't have to spend so much time engaged in discovery to ascertain what they ultimately settle on as the facts of a given case, and even then, a jury is still required to pick the winner from two competing versions of the truth.

Do you apply this theory to religion as well?
goingoneight
3/30/2009, 06:56 PM
Texass? :confused:
Okla-homey
3/31/2009, 06:22 AM
Do you apply this theory to religion as well?

The great English writer C.S. Lewis wrote that Christ was one of three things. A lunatic, lier or the Lord. I would only add, "choose wisely."
SoonerAtKU
3/31/2009, 10:05 AM
C.S. Lewis was brilliant, but that's a fallacy put up by someone who clearly believes in one of the three options. There's a fourth option that Ieshua of Nazareth was an important historical figure and religious leader that has had a lot of nonsense heaped on his name in the last 2000 years. That doesn't make him a lunatic, liar, or lord of anything.
SoonerAtKU
3/31/2009, 11:35 AM
How the hell did this happen? I expected it with the Evolution thread, but man...
StoopTroup
3/31/2009, 11:38 AM
Mountana?
StoopTroup
3/31/2009, 11:39 AM
Idaho?
StoopTroup
3/31/2009, 11:40 AM
New Mynxico
SoonerAtKU
3/31/2009, 11:57 AM
She-Da-Ho