Lupin the Third
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Post by Lupin the Third on Feb 20, 2010 21:27:55 GMT -5
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople.
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night.
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople.
So if you've a date in Constantinople,
She'll be waiting in Istanbul.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Why they changed it I can't say.
People just liked it better that way.
So take me back to Constantinople.
No, you can't go back to Constantinople.
Been a long time gone, Constantinople.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
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Post by ani on Feb 20, 2010 21:29:16 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Feb 20, 2010 21:39:48 GMT -5
It's still Constantinople to me, damnit!  |
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Legion
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by Legion on Feb 20, 2010 21:43:52 GMT -5
As a historian, I love either. i can adapt to both Western and Eastern stuff
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Post by ani on Feb 20, 2010 21:45:20 GMT -5
It's still Constantinople to me, damnit!  Emperor Justinian I is impressed. |
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Feb 20, 2010 22:01:58 GMT -5
It's still Constantinople to me, damnit! Emperor Justinian I is impressed. Constantinople is a cooler name anyway. You know what Istanbul means? "To the City" or "In the city." What the hell? That doesn't even make sense. It'd be like someone taking over New York and calling it "To the Marketplace." Give me "City of Constantine" any day over "In the City." |
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Grendel
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
But ... why is all the rum gone?
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Post by Grendel on Feb 20, 2010 22:04:38 GMT -5
That's exactly what I was thinking. |
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Post by Red Impact on Feb 20, 2010 22:07:33 GMT -5
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Jay Peas 42
El Dandy
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Feb 20, 2010 22:26:35 GMT -5
Attaturk renamed it. He felt it was a more Turkish name.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Feb 20, 2010 22:29:36 GMT -5
Attaturk renamed it. He felt it was a more Turkish name. If he wanted something that was closer to Turkey, he should've named it Gravy. ;D I'm sorry. I'll go now and let all you smart people discuss your smart people topics.  |
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Feb 20, 2010 22:32:35 GMT -5
Attaturk renamed it. He felt it was a more Turkish name. Which is funny because all he did was made a greek prepositional phrase sound more turkishy. |
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Post by Apricots And A Pear Tree on Feb 20, 2010 22:45:07 GMT -5
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Feb 20, 2010 22:49:25 GMT -5
I have to say, before I watched the video I saw the screencap of it and got it good chuckle out of it. Then when I actually watched the video, I flat out laughed my ass off.  |
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Post by Ridley on Feb 20, 2010 23:11:47 GMT -5
THAT is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
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Post by Sana's got that SUPA LUV on Feb 21, 2010 1:43:35 GMT -5
First thing that came to mind, and I still love it. (It makes me miss Tiny Toons a lot, though...) |
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DramaGuyCJM
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Post by DramaGuyCJM on Feb 21, 2010 9:51:40 GMT -5
This is without a doubt the best lip-synched performance of a TMBG song ever! We need more singing and dancing hand puppets on TV.
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Mr Captain Falcon
Dennis Stamp
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Post by Mr Captain Falcon on Feb 21, 2010 11:16:26 GMT -5
Particle Man, Particle Man. Doin' the things a particle can!
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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 21, 2010 13:36:16 GMT -5
It's funny how little respect the Byzantum or Eastern Roman Empire gets. It lasted nearly 1,000 years more than the Western Roman Empire and yet the fall of Rome in the 5th century is generally given as the end of Roman influence.
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Post by Prince Petty on Feb 21, 2010 16:27:13 GMT -5
It's funny how little respect the Byzantum or Eastern Roman Empire gets. It lasted nearly 1,000 years more than the Western Roman Empire and yet the fall of Rome in the 5th century is generally given as the end of Roman influence. And if not for the Eastern Roman Empire, the likelihood is that the whole of Medieval Europe would have been cut off in its infancy. Without Constantinople shielding the Christian West in the early periods of Islamic expansion, the world would be a vastly different place today. Of course, Charles Martel needs recognition for stopping Islamic expansion into France, but the threat from the East remained long after the Reconquista of Spain had begun. The Byzantine Romans deserve more than to be a footnote in history, they should be a significant part of any study of Medieval Europe. |
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Post by Jason Todd Grisham on Feb 21, 2010 16:33:23 GMT -5
It's funny how little respect the Byzantum or Eastern Roman Empire gets. It lasted nearly 1,000 years more than the Western Roman Empire and yet the fall of Rome in the 5th century is generally given as the end of Roman influence. Especially when they called themselves "Romanoi." What American schools (at least) fail to impart is that the eastern Roman empire was always richer, and more cosmopolitan than the west. All of the rich Roman landowners sent their sons to the east to learn. They envied Greek learning and were confounded as to why the greeks could be so smart, but lack Roman statesmanship. When Constantine moved the capital to the east he was only making official what was known for a long time, the center of power was really in the east where all of the rich cities were. The West was the rural backwater, and to focus on Europe is to make it sound like the Fall of Rome led to a world of darkness. But to the Byzantines (Romanoi) nothing changed. They didn't forget anything, they didn't lose anything. And the center of trade and wealth was centered around the Byzantine and Arab worlds. With the Chinese doing their thing. |
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