Post by OscarWillebeest on Jun 25, 2008 18:54:27 GMT -5
Just like the dearly beloved moderator of Insultingly Your’s, the great Virgil was verily respected. And just like our dearly beloved Jade, Virgil was verily revered for his ability to string more than two decent sentences together. For, like our dearly beloved Jade moderator, he authored many an outstanding writ, of which his Aeneid Is probably the best known.
He traveled in the Company of Caesar, and like our dearly beloved moderator his advice, too, was sought after. And, just for interest sake, he lived from 70 BC, up to 19 BC, when he succumbed to fever.
Unfortunately, and there in lies the rub, he was much too much like our dearly beloved Jade. For, like her, he did not think twice about not paying his dues, about lying and cheating to keep that which he is not entitled to. Deep down, under that outward display of fairness, that so-called bonhomie, he, like our dearly beloved Jade moderator, who connives her way along these pages, like most of our parliamentarians, he cheated the government out of what, by law, belonged to the man in the street. At the least, just like Jade, he was verily ingenious!
In 43BC the government of the day( the Second Triumvirate: Augustus, Marc Antony, and Lepidus) decided to confiscate the lands of the idle rich and allot it to the war veterans. Now, according to Suetonius Tranquillis, in his “Life of Augustus,” the sly old poet quickly determined that in order to retain his mansion on the Esquiline Hill, he had to have it declared as either a cemetery, or a mausoleum, seeing that such were exempt.
He swatted himself a fly (on the sly) and promptly decreed it to be his dearly departed pet! Copiously he weeped, then mournfully staged an elaborate funeral! Various dignitaries delivered an assortment of appropiate eulogies, and the beloved was gaudily interred with quite a fanfare, to the tune of what must be close 5 million rands in today’s money (almost a million dollars)!
Vergil’s home thus became a mausoleum for his dearly departed pet, and the day was saved! Yes, such is the ingeniousity of those, like our dearly beloved, highly respected Jade. They’ll concoct whatever scheme, in order to have everything their way! Thus then Insultingly Your’s is nothing less than the mausoleum for Jade’s subjective machinations to subject the members to her narrow minded vindictiveness.
He traveled in the Company of Caesar, and like our dearly beloved moderator his advice, too, was sought after. And, just for interest sake, he lived from 70 BC, up to 19 BC, when he succumbed to fever.
Unfortunately, and there in lies the rub, he was much too much like our dearly beloved Jade. For, like her, he did not think twice about not paying his dues, about lying and cheating to keep that which he is not entitled to. Deep down, under that outward display of fairness, that so-called bonhomie, he, like our dearly beloved Jade moderator, who connives her way along these pages, like most of our parliamentarians, he cheated the government out of what, by law, belonged to the man in the street. At the least, just like Jade, he was verily ingenious!
In 43BC the government of the day( the Second Triumvirate: Augustus, Marc Antony, and Lepidus) decided to confiscate the lands of the idle rich and allot it to the war veterans. Now, according to Suetonius Tranquillis, in his “Life of Augustus,” the sly old poet quickly determined that in order to retain his mansion on the Esquiline Hill, he had to have it declared as either a cemetery, or a mausoleum, seeing that such were exempt.
He swatted himself a fly (on the sly) and promptly decreed it to be his dearly departed pet! Copiously he weeped, then mournfully staged an elaborate funeral! Various dignitaries delivered an assortment of appropiate eulogies, and the beloved was gaudily interred with quite a fanfare, to the tune of what must be close 5 million rands in today’s money (almost a million dollars)!
Vergil’s home thus became a mausoleum for his dearly departed pet, and the day was saved! Yes, such is the ingeniousity of those, like our dearly beloved, highly respected Jade. They’ll concoct whatever scheme, in order to have everything their way! Thus then Insultingly Your’s is nothing less than the mausoleum for Jade’s subjective machinations to subject the members to her narrow minded vindictiveness.