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11-03-2017, 02:13 PM
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What have the Russians ever done for us?
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Reg, The Life of Brian.
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11-03-2017, 09:05 PM
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Developed the periodic table of the elements
Developed soil science
Pavlov and his drooling dogs
Put the first man into space
Blew up some really big rockets on the launching pad
Vodka
Pioneers in fake news
Icy grave for much of Napoleon's army
Icy grave for much of Hitler's army
Has some great ice hockey talent
Proved Communism wasn't all that it was cracked up to be
Demonstrated the downside of nuclear power
Size matters
Last edited by Douglas G. Brown; 11-04-2017 at 06:19 AM.
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11-04-2017, 12:25 AM
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Yay, Mendeleev!
I was thinking of a motto for the current administration, DT and Jeff Sessions in particular.
Monty Python: What have the romans ever done for us? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7tvauOJMHo
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11-04-2017, 08:35 AM
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We've got to laugh, don't we?
- Race in space
- Cosmo
- Giving credence to the road roader cartoons
- Beautiful novels
- Building sand castles
- Gave us Donald Trump
And who could ever forget Stan? He's not a man! https://youtu.be/NrDVsprWRCQ
Last edited by Jim Moonan; 11-04-2017 at 08:40 AM.
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11-04-2017, 09:17 AM
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Tovarich Trump. Slogan: Make Russia Great Again.
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11-05-2017, 05:47 AM
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Vladimir Nabokov.
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11-05-2017, 07:11 AM
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Sam: "Vladimir Nabokov"
Two true words.
Thank you Sam.
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11-05-2017, 12:57 PM
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And since the Union went down the drain, they are the only plumbers in the San Fernando Valley.
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11-05-2017, 01:11 PM
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A succession of world chess champions who embarrassed the best the West could muster (save for the strange anomaly that is Bobby Fischer.)
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11-05-2017, 01:44 PM
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'Battleship Potemkin', Tolstoy and vodka.
And Nabokov, but Sam got there first.
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