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Sometimes I Do These Things
Oh hey, I forgot to link to That Video where I sing in Times Square which was mentioned in that little newspaper item.
October 14, 2009
I am aware the dates are off
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Welcome to AskPythia, please state your question for the Oracle in the form below:
“Should I attack the Persians?”
Know thyself and pursue moderation in all things.
posted by Gnosticody
Dude, get the Spartans behind you. We can totally kick their ass, we’re still good for it
Posted by Brotherlylover69
Whatever you do, don’t ignore fevers in battle. Trust me
posted by Alec The Pretty Good
You should invent in some new steam-powered Machine Marvels to terrify and subdue the villains. Contact me later for rates.
posted by Talos, The Hands Of Fate.
Blood and souls! Blood and souls for the horned one! the horned one!
posted by Mynameismeanad
Do you really want to continue the bloodshed that has marred our life for years? Maybe you should reflect on your reasons about why you feel this way, it’s a little disgusting to be honest.
posted by SocraticSteak
DEATH TO PERSIAAA!!!!!!1111!
posted by Lionmanxxx
Whatever. It’ll go bad, cause you’re gonna fuck up, cause *everyone* fucks up. Why do I even fucking bother?
posted by A Lantern In The Dark
Will it make you happy?
posted by Solon, Farewell, Goodbye
Why not? You’ll all be teaching greek to a bunch of hairy peasants playing Empire for the next millennium anyway.
posted by Apollo Of The Wigwam
[a few prophecies removed - please don't drag fights into the Oracle, okay? ]
posted by Minervamyn
There is a discusssion of this prohecy over at SYMPO, please take the fights there.
posted by Logos
October 9, 2009
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September 30, 2009
This crummy southern town
Has anyone noticed that the general “escalating wackiness” music in 30 Rock is basically a more cherry version of “Pirate Jenny”?
Duh dah duh dum dum dah dum.
September 27, 2009
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Sometimes I poke Wikipedia for my own amusement.
* 489 – Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona, and is defeated again.
* 1331 – The Battle of Płowce between the Kingdom of Poland and the Teutonic Order is fought.
* 1540 – The Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
* 1590 – Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, making his reign the shortest papacy in history.
* 1605 – The armies of Sweden are defeated by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Battle of Kircholm.
* 1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.
* 1777 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day.
* 1821 – Mexico gains its independence from Spain.
* 1822 – Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
* 1854 – The steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
* 1903 – Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name.
* 1905 – The physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”, introducing the equation E=mc².
* 1908 – The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
* 1916 – Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
* 1922 – King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II.
* 1928 – The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
* 1930 – Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Amateur Championship to complete the Grand Slam of golf. The old structure of the grand slam was the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur, and British Amateur.
* 1937 – Balinese Tiger declared extinct.
* 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
* 1940 – World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
* 1941 – The SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
* 1941 – Foundation of EAM (National Liberation Front) in Greece.
* 1942 – Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
* 1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.
* 1949 – The first Plenary Session of the National People’s Congress approves the design of the Flag of the People’s Republic of China.
* 1954 – The nationwide debut of Tonight! (The Tonight Show) hosted by Steve Allen on NBC.
* 1956 – USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
* 1959 – Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
* 1964 – The Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
* 1968 – The stage musical Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof’s collapsing in July 1973.
* 1977 – The 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed.
* 1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
* 1983 – Richard Stallman announces the GNU project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
* 1984 John Leavitt, most awesome human ever, is born.
* 1988 – The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded.
* 1993 – The Sukhumi massacre takes place in Abkhazia.
* 1995 – The Government of the United States unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center.
* 1996 – In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city Kabul after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah.
* 1996 – The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.
* 1997 – Communications are suddenly lost with the Mars Pathfinder space probe.
* 2002 – Timor-Leste (East Timor) joins the United Nations.
* 2003 – Smart 1 satellite is launched.
* 2008 – CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk while flying on Shenzhou 7
