Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:44:43 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 22:39:17 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

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Why do you think that Putin has been living in his bomb shelter under=20
the Kremlin for two years now.

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Because he is so badly off physically that he cannot leave it?

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Most analysts favor that the belief that Putin is worried about
being assassinated is a prime factor in his seclusion.
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(Weren't the original assassins from what is now known as Syria?)

Ah, yes -- the Hashishim. Servants of The Old Man of the Mountain.

Perhaps (who can say?) source of the "50 virgins" theory of Paradise.

I saw /Omar Khayyam/ when it came out in 1957.

Well, I /think/ that was the one. Even Wikipedia doesn't have a plot
summary adequate to link it to the Hashishim. IMDb focuses on the
romance, and Maltin dimisses it as "childishly idiotic" (since was 10
at the time, that means it was made for me).
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"