Alexander the Great - ruler of the world by 30, cities named after you all over the Mediterranean - yet dying after a binge. Any regrets?
Julius Caesar - Any thoughts on Brutus and Cassius?
Harold Godwinson - an easy victory over the Vikings at Stamford Bridge - but it was one in the eye for you here, wasn't it?
Richard III - There's never a horse when you need one, is there? Where do you think you'll go from here?
Anne Boleyn - From quiet country girl to Queen of England. Would you say your head's on the block?
Juliet - How ironic was that?
Charles I - If you're God's chosen - he's not doing you any favours is he?
Capt Cook - Would you say you've learnt anything about the idea of "friendly natives on paradise islands"?
Adolf Hitler - Berlin's in ruins and you're moving imaginary tank regiments around on a map. How do you rate your chances?
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Saturday, 19 May 2012
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Dr Who and the Celtic Twilight
A land of mists and magic.
A time of talking dragons.
A land where the government oppresses the members of a religion - and yet the rulers never seem to have any religion of their own - despite the mists and magic, the dragons and the other religion. So the BBC can cleverly have a pop at Christian intolerance without naming it.
A 5th Century where the dominant mode of discourse is post-modern irony.
A Camelot where the enemy is the Celt not the English.
Don't die, Doctor! Please don't leave us! Though you were impossible, too clever by half, over-wrought, over-complex, over budget, and totally wasted the Cyberpeople (why "men"? Where's the equal opportunties for people who through no fault of their own have been converted into androids with no emotions?) And though - despite the money and the hype and the CGI (or maybe because of it) you were terribly, terribly lazy....
Don't do it, Doctor! Don't leave us to Merlin.....
Aaaaaaaaagh!
A time of talking dragons.
A land where the government oppresses the members of a religion - and yet the rulers never seem to have any religion of their own - despite the mists and magic, the dragons and the other religion. So the BBC can cleverly have a pop at Christian intolerance without naming it.
A 5th Century where the dominant mode of discourse is post-modern irony.
A Camelot where the enemy is the Celt not the English.
Don't die, Doctor! Please don't leave us! Though you were impossible, too clever by half, over-wrought, over-complex, over budget, and totally wasted the Cyberpeople (why "men"? Where's the equal opportunties for people who through no fault of their own have been converted into androids with no emotions?) And though - despite the money and the hype and the CGI (or maybe because of it) you were terribly, terribly lazy....
Don't do it, Doctor! Don't leave us to Merlin.....
Aaaaaaaaagh!
A world too round - Columbus and the Cardinals
"Starting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice."
"There never was a flat earth dogma. When Columbus faced off with the Spanish cardinals, the issue was the size of the earth, not its shape. And the Cardinals were right: the earth was a heck of a lot bigger than Columbus believed. His mission was ill-conceived, and it failed. But it failed gloriously. Columbus went to his grave erroneously thinking he had bumped into some far corner of Asia."
Source.
Never realised Columbus had a face-off with any cardinals. But it seems there is a myth that people in the Middle Ages all thought the earth was flat. They didn't - as shown by QI and even this creationist website goes to a lot of trouble to prove the idea of a flat-earth is silly.
But I'm still a bit worried. If the world's not flat, why do people still fall off the edge when they try to go to Leighton Buzzard?
"There never was a flat earth dogma. When Columbus faced off with the Spanish cardinals, the issue was the size of the earth, not its shape. And the Cardinals were right: the earth was a heck of a lot bigger than Columbus believed. His mission was ill-conceived, and it failed. But it failed gloriously. Columbus went to his grave erroneously thinking he had bumped into some far corner of Asia."
Source.
Never realised Columbus had a face-off with any cardinals. But it seems there is a myth that people in the Middle Ages all thought the earth was flat. They didn't - as shown by QI and even this creationist website goes to a lot of trouble to prove the idea of a flat-earth is silly.
But I'm still a bit worried. If the world's not flat, why do people still fall off the edge when they try to go to Leighton Buzzard?
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