I’m looking forward to the next in the series, though: “Frosties are Not Great: the Turpitude of Tony the Tiger”.
Does the general public believe that Alexander the Great was good or bad?
Like with Socrates, almost everyone thinks he was good (including me). He really was an awesome, intelligent man. At the time, the Athenians had to be such jerks and accuse him for 'corrupting the youth, and ‘blaspheming the gods’. It was ridiculous. Socrates was actually religious and looked up to the gods. And saying he ‘corrupted the youth’ is lame too because all he did was teach his students how to think using the Socratic Method. He even told Plato to educate young children to be good, democratic students, and on top of that, Socrates said not to question built in customs.
I know I got a little side-tracked there, and I will probably be doing a pit thread on Socrates’s persecution because that’s just bogus.
But what does the general publc think about Alexander the Great?
That his movie sucked. If they think about him at all.
Like, awful and awesome used to mean the same thing. Causing awe.
I don’t think that the general public thinks about Alexander the Great at all. I don’t think that he was any different than any empire builder.
Of course, the only accounts we have of the trial and death of Socrates were written by his friends and pupils, Xenophon and Plato. Just sayin’.
State, the Empire Builder, seems to thought of fondly and has stood the test of time.
I pray to “Mod” for your banning before you start more of these stupid pit threads.
How is this stupid? And what rules did I break that should get me banned?
Wow, somebody piss in your Cheerios or something? I mean it may be a little different, but it is hardly worthy of a Mod coming in and banning. Now if he or she keeps putting up similar threads (“Leibniz was Screwed!” and “We get it, you’re deaf Beethoven!”) then there might be an issue.
Interesting.
Do you happen to know if they ever made one for Beethoven?
Alexander the Curve Breaker?
This isn’t quite Pit material, but I imagine it would be fine in MPSIMS.
Obama made it on baseball bubblegum cards. Seriously, a kid this christmas opened a pack and there was Obama (well his pic anyway…he’s thin but not that thin).
So then call him Alexander the Grate.
A huge hat?! No wonder he never did better than great if all he had was a huge hat. He should have whipped out that ‘cocky’.
Next you’ll be telling me that Captain Bluebeard didn’t have a blue beard at all!
WTF? Were you there? I’m not being snarky, I really want to know! It sounds like you saw that in person! If so, I must say this is the longest delay between event and personal pitting I’ve ever seen! :eek:
Took a long time to develop the hamsters.
You know, there was an old poem in some collection I read once. It may have been written in the early twentieth century, but it’s called “How Big Was Alexander?” It was a dialogue between a father and a son.
To sum it up:
Son: If Alexander was called “The Great,” then how big was he, Dad?
Father: Well, probably not as tall as me or your uncle, son. It was his NAME that was great.
Son: It isn’t that long–I can spell it easily.
Father: That’s not the kind of “great” I mean, son…it’s the deeds he did that made his name famous. He was a great warrior who slaughtered armies and conquered nations.
Son: Then killing made him great? Then why did this murderer the papers are talking about get hanged? Nobody called HIM great.
Father: Well…it’s different if it’s in war, son…not just killing a single man.
Son: So, if I wanted to be called great, I’d kill hundreds of men, and not end up getting hanged?
Father: No, son, we’re supposed to love our fellow man.
Son: So why DID they call Alexander “The Great”? Did the people he conquered or the families of the soldiers he killed think he was “great”?
The poem ends without the father having any answer for this.
Not so much “huge” as just plain awesome!