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

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:59:16 -0500, Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 1/18/25 4:13 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Scott Dorsey wrote:

William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

>
As you have not read that article, I feel safe in telling you that the
article makes a big deal of the fact that the movie did not portray
Napoleon as a three-armed Martian who conquered Jupiter.

>
This said, I would like to say that I would be VERY willing to spend my
money to see a movie in which Napoleon was a three-armed martian who
conquered Jupiter.  Especially if Nelson is a distributed software-based
virtual intelligence.

 
With only one arm, just to keep it historically accurate, of course.
 

>
Dang - if there's a Waterloo riff in here, I'm not finding it.

There isn't. They are confusing Nelson with Wellington. Probably
because conquering Jupiter sounds more like a (space) naval operation
than conquering Russia was.
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