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Does size matter? The answer

by ranfuchs @ 20/01/2008 - 19:25:48

If size matters then nothing else does

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And who is better to express it than Monty python


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la_spicela_spice [Member]
20/01/08 @ 19:35

Here's the real answer! :)

http://mypoetry.blog.co.uk/2007/10/11/does_size_really_matter~3119462

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 19:42

a different and original perspective altogether :>
I still liked the poem though :)

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
20/01/08 @ 19:48

I couldn't resist the tease! :>

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 19:55

A tease? and I thought it was the man who took you up to his bedroom?

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
20/01/08 @ 19:56

Don't believe everything you read! :no:

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:01

don't you worry about this, miss. I hardly ever believe anything I read

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:05

Good job! Someone once read one of my poems and thought that I'd been to prison!

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:09

were you?

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:12

No! :no:

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:15

that's what they all say to me :(

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la_spicela_spice [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:18

Me too! :(

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EllieGantEllieGant pro
20/01/08 @ 19:47

What amazing pictures. I have to admit that my brain just cannot cope with the statistics of the universe. But the sizes involved certainly make me feel very humble and insignificant.

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 19:54

and this is only the beginning ...

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Melinda_blogMelinda_blog [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:06

What happened to Castor?

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:14

still up there. Not very impressive though. Why, a relative of yours?

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Melinda_blogMelinda_blog [Member]
20/01/08 @ 20:46

Not mine. Cassandra's.
Her sister-in-law's half brother.
(I think I've got that right...)

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CassandraofTroyCassandraofTroy [Member]
20/01/08 @ 21:39

Actually, he and Helen hatched from the same egg.
so, my sister-in-law's twin

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 22:44

I need to reread. I think it's at least 30 years since I read it

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CassandraofTroyCassandraofTroy [Member]
20/01/08 @ 23:54

Me too.
Except I went and got Larousse out a couple of hours ago and checked it out,

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
21/01/08 @ 08:36

:)

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CassandraofTroyCassandraofTroy [Member]
21/01/08 @ 10:07

It’s strange, because Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces) are usually described as twins. But actually Leda laid two eggs (which I had remembered), one fathered by Zeus and the other by her human husband. But what I’d forgotten was that it was actually Helen and Castor in the egg fathered by Zeus, and Polydeuces and Clytemnestra in the one fathered by the other guy. So strictly speaking, Castor and Pollux/Polydeuces weren’t twins, but half brothers. Who just happened to be born at the same time. Non-identical quads, I suppose. Very non-identical.
I don't remember what happened to Clytemnestra - after she murdered Agamemnon in his bath. Though I suppose I should, because thinking about it, she was probably the one who killed me as well :??: don't have time to look it up right now.
Ahhh, but I think I DO remember what happened to her now. Didn't Orestes bump her off for killing his Dad? (talk about dysfunctional). which is why he got torn apart by the Furies - quite right too :>

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
21/01/08 @ 10:31

sounds more complex than the bible. I think I'll stick to things my mind can comprehend

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CassandraofTroyCassandraofTroy [Member]
21/01/08 @ 18:22

Aaaah, but much more fun.
Larousse is silent on whether it was Clytemnestra who bumped me off (poor old Aggy, what a ball-breaker SHE was). So at present I can't actually tell you how I died.
Look, I'm a prophetess, not a historian. Future: OK; past: a little hazy.

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
21/01/08 @ 18:25

and even your prophesy is not believed by anyone.

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husbandorcathusbandorcat [Member]
22/01/08 @ 08:20

sad but true.
that's 'prophecy' (noun) not 'prophesy' (verb), BTW

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
22/01/08 @ 09:35

thanks. I can never tell my s's from my c's

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CassandraofTroyCassandraofTroy [Member]
23/01/08 @ 08:58

I checked out Robert Graves to see whether he says anything about how I died. He doesn't, but he does say that my name means 'she who entangles men' :> Which is pretty cool :p, though hardly appropriate for a priestess of Pallas Athene.
I did find a passing reference to my demise in 'Greek and Roman Mythology', by DM Field, but very much as an appendage to Agamemnon: 'when the king returned to Mycenae, he was murdered by Aehisthus, or by Clytemnestra at her lover's instigation: Cassandra also perished' (Hamlyn, 1977, p131)
Hmmm, old DMF strikes me as a bit of a 1970s MCP. Clytemnestra was quite capable of instigating murder on her own behalf, I'm sure.

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
23/01/08 @ 22:56

will remain a mystery for ever, it seems

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ConfuddledConfuddled pro
20/01/08 @ 21:30

There always seems to be something bigger and smaller. Where does it all stop?? Makes the mind boggle, doesn't it.

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
20/01/08 @ 22:44

it doesn't stop. It doesn't even exist

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ConfuddledConfuddled pro
20/01/08 @ 22:47

Exactly! That's why I find it so mind boggling.

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tylluanpenrytylluanpenry pro
20/01/08 @ 23:44

A brilliant way of getting things in perspective!

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
21/01/08 @ 08:34

tks :)

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antlady69antlady69 pro
http://www.antmusic-forever.blog.co.uk
21/01/08 @ 10:26

Excellent! Puts things into perspective - literally! ;)

And proves again that we humans are much smaller than we always think we are.

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
21/01/08 @ 10:33

so will you donate your liver?

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PrincessFionaPrincessFiona [Member]
22/01/08 @ 09:25

i have seen these pics but I never failes to amaze me what nature can create!

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
22/01/08 @ 09:39

agree. Aren't they absolutely amazing. And as long as you keep thinking you can't stop wondering

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PrincessFionaPrincessFiona [Member]
22/01/08 @ 09:46

true! you may keep wondering but science doesnt have answers for everything!

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
22/01/08 @ 10:20

anything better with more answers?

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PrincessFionaPrincessFiona [Member]
22/01/08 @ 10:24

no .. i'd rather be amazed and believe in Miracles

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ranfuchsranfuchs [Member]
22/01/08 @ 10:54

The miracle of love
Will take away your pain
When the miracle of love
Comes your way again.

Eurythimics

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PrincessFionaPrincessFiona [Member]
22/01/08 @ 10:58

I love them!

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