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Here in London, nobody believes in Gods anymore. Religious people are seen to be borderline schizophrenics; In fact, a common term for the highly religious folk is now “functional psychotic.” They have been taking a massive social beating due to their stance on marijuana (after it was moved down to Class C).

hey: didn’t get your mail…got one’ that you where throughing out options for conversation, I feel I wrote you some pretty good one’s but anyway …bad connection or what? I’ll figure it out…

basically, one of my mailings to you discussed the first one with you and elaborated …but perhaps their was alot of extraneous datum…I don’t know I don’t think so…the gist is this…go figure… Janus hold’s the key to the victorian liquour cabinet…the alpha and the omega…the beginning and the ending of the military campaign…through Carthage and then on to Georgia and ultimately Africa…the memory of elephant’s are livid…”beware of khan’s with elephants” I’ll see ya’ later I’ll be in touch give me a chance …I’ve got some history and current events I’d like to through at you…and one concern …apparently I received one of your e’mails…and you received several of mine (which I thought were the proxis for a trans-dialectical study of conversation…talk …but you said , stop sending “stop sending me these e-mails” ? so send me a mailing…if you want…I don’t know…and I’ll give you some vernacular that I know…and have studied of current events and historical epochs that are relevant today news…

… like I said…don’t characterize me I’m trying for aculturization…I’m no bastard romulus remus tit sucking she-wolf phillistine…see ya’ round…like a beach ball..:)

……We apologize for interupting your regularly scheduled list of programming…Hailing you from our affiliates in the proposed capital city of the Eastern empire of Rome…comes our correspondent Tadious Afflictibus…Tadious

Hail and Thankyou Rhodius…”WELL HAIL HERE IN THIS TINY SEASIDE COMMUNITY LOCATED ON THE EDGE OF THE BLACK SEA IN THE EASTERN EMPIRE WITH THE DEFEAT OF LISINIUS … CONSTANTINE THE FIRST IS CONSIDERING REVITALIZING THE AREA RESPENDENT WITH CONDOMONIUMS AND SLEEPY GATED COMMUNITY’S…PART OF THE SUBDIVISIONS GOING UP WILL BE RESERVED FOR THE DESIGNATION OF THE CAPITAL OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE …CONSTANTINE HAS NOT LET HIS INTENTIONS KNOWN AS TO THE NAME OF THE NEW CITY BUT THERE IS MUCH SPECULATION AS WHAT THE “NEW ROME” WILL BE OFFICIALLY DESIGNATE IN THIS COMMONWEALTH…hail Rhodius…

well Hail Tadious have you or your sources been made privy to any possible names that the city will and or could be designated as…

WELL HAIL RHODIUS, CONSIDERING THE DESIGNATION FROM ROME PROPER OF THE AREA IN THIS PART OF THE EMPIRE AS “THE NEW ROME”…IT’S RUMORED THAT CONSTANTINE WILL MORE THAN LIKELY NAME IT AFTER HIMSELF…HAIL RHODIUS

…well hail and tell us Tadiuos …and i don’t mean to in any way to detract from Constantines’ victory over Licinius, but what if any are the implications for Rome proper with this new realistate developement….

WELL HAIL RHODIUS, WITH THE BATTLE WON THE EMPIRE WILL MORE THAN LIKELY BE SPLIT UP INTO TWO HALVES MAINLY BECAUSE THIS WILL BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO GOVERN SUCH A VAST BREADTH AND DEPTH OF A HUGE EASTERN PART OF THE EMPIRE…HAIL RHODIUS

well HAIL can you tell us what is the affective mood of the people’s who are living in the area of the Black sea…

WELL HAIL RHODIUS THE PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY RESIGNED….THEY SEE THE ADVANTAGES OF BECOMEING PART OF THE EMPIRE AND JUST BASICALLY ARE GLAD THAT THE FIGHTING IS OVER…IT’S RUMORED THAT THE “ROMAN CORP. OF ENGINEER’S” ARE ALREADY ON THEIR WAY TO THIS REMOTE AND ANCIENT AREA…ALREADY AS WE SPEAK THE CORPORATE OFFICES IN ROME HAVE ALREADY MADE LICENSE FOR A NEW WALMART AND HOME DEPOT…BUT FIRST THE ROMAN CORP. OF ENGINEER’S WILL BEGIN BY BUILDING BETTER ROAD’S AND AQUADUCTS IN THE AREA…HAIL RHODIUS

hail so your saying Tadious that infrastructure is already on it’s way…

HAIL THAT IS CORRECT RHODIUS…AND THE PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY GAINED A CONCENSUS THAT ENFRANCHISEMENT LIKE DIARY QUEEN AND A MEGA MALL WOULD ALSO BE A LUCRITIVE AMENTITY IN THIS AREA OF THE EMPIRE…BUT WHAT’S MOST IN DEMAND IS WATER FILTRATION …ACCORDINGLY THE ROMAN CORP. OF ENGINEER’S IT’S RUMORED WILL BUILD MASSIVE REVERSE OSMOSIS REGENERATION FACILITIES AND EMENSE SOLAR AND WIND GENERATING POWER PLANT’S…

hail well Tadious, what if any cottage industry exist’s in the area proper…hail

HAIL THE MAIN COTTAGE INDUSTRIES THAT EXIST ARE FISHING AND AREA RUGS AND MALLIABLE NICKEL JEWELRY… WHICH PROPOSED APPLICATION TO THE MASS ECONOMY OF INTER-EMPIRE TRANSIT AND TEXTILES UNION’S ARE SUGGESTING BE SUPPLANTED WITH INDIAN JEWELRY…HERE’S HAILING YOU RHODIUS…

hail well and good job and thankyou…and come home safely as soon as possible alot of the girls in the newsroom are looking forward to seeing you again…

(nod’s hails) “thankyou RHOdius…”

That was was our correspondant hailing you from deep within the area of the Eastern Empire of the “New Rome” at the Black Sea, Tadious Afflictibus…for all of us here Hailing you from the headquarters of (what’s left of ) the Western Empire at Rome (W.E.R.) hailing and wishing you a safe and happy good morro’ thanks and tune in next week with our affiliates at the Georgia Ecumenical Society of Demetre (G.E.S.D.) ….for a special report on syncretistic secret society’s (S.S.S.M.) Until then this is Rhodius Apollononius Hailing you from W.E.R.

…we now hail and return you to your regularly scheduled program…Sponsored to night in part by… …. ….. …. ….

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….and…. … …. …”Augustusleine’…when you can’t afford to have it stick, think Augustusleine’…we keep your ox-cart running…” … …and … “Hectoraid’ helping strengthen the bodies own natural defenses…you have to ask yourself…’is it in you?”… …. …. …. …. …. … …”oh Hail, ring around the collar, ya’ know my husband Thadeus Fadeus is up for a promotion in the protectorate of the armenian colonies, and I want him to look his best, but oh hail, those dirty ring’s around his collar, what am I to do…(ding dong) that must be my eutruscan friend Sophia …’mornin’ girl, oh hail…don’t even say it, I know that look, you should have taken a lesson back in the Pellopeneze girl, but don’t worry I have just the thing…it’s new, and it works…Hannibal out’…with this stuff…it’ll be another 300 year’s before you’ll have to worry about how your man looks with the councilate…Hail on Sophia, your the quintessence of the essense, thankx’ for that…” … … … … … … …

We take you now to our affiliates in Melitus on the coast of Asia Minor…with our correspondent standing by Phibius Aurilius…Phibius…

Thankyou Demetrius….well it’s been a contentious 6 months here in Melitus and Elea ….a populace who has long been in contentious tradition with the revisionist Hesiod who as you know wanted to revive Homer’s bloody theogeny…the popular mood is that Alexandar, who got his library of 10,000 title’s last year in the popular resort town of Alexandria which as you recall was built just after under the cloak of the scandal of the conspiratorary death of his step father Phillip of Macedon…now it would appear the population is up in arms having learned of his intention to go into Seria at a time that the colonies are demanding action from Athen’s and relief with the over taxation with out representation…even as we speak Seluecnid Raider’s from deep within the Persian empire struck again last 3 and a half weeks ago…and the citizenry is demanding action from athens…the students at the university have begun to wage a huge civil protest…provoking their fathers to reconsider whether or not taxes should continue to be paid to Athens…The board of director’s at the academy of A-leya-U. has put out a statement with the town hall for unifying the population’s once again as it did in the tradition of the contentious 7th century …there still has been no response from the young boy king and the deceased Phillips well trained army has been camped outside the city for the past 6 months…a liason has come to this tiny sea side town to reassure the city hall that at any cost the prefectorate in the Auspice’s of Georgia’s ministry of the syncretistic religiosity union (the SRU) would be present for the organization’s equal represention with the commonwealth of the loosely confederation of philosophers….the CLCP released to the press at a forum while at Siphniums at Delphi…proctoring representatives from Athen’s to intervene. …Rhodius

Thankyou Phibius…our correspondent from the capital at Athens has issued a statement from Isocrates office of cultural amalgamation of the commonwealth city states of the ATG….He’s a young protege’ of Isocrates with a fervent desire for the cause and implimentation of the unification of the City States …Oediseeus Olimpyius…Oediseeus….what is the gist of the statement as released from the office of the ATG…?

Well …as you probably have known for quite some time, the court has been very alucritive and gaining ground under the auspices of the esteemed council of one of it’s most vociferious forums under the cause of the united pan hellenistic alliance of commonwealth city states …the acronym being the UPHACP under the direction of the ATG’s chief council Isocrates…unfortunatly, the momentum for Isocrates’ baby so to speak, was thrwarted two years ago by the assassination of King Phillip of Macedon and implicating Phillips’ wife and mother to Alexander, Olympias…

Well can you tell us what’s going to happen now in the wake of the leak to the public along the sea side towns in Asia Minor of Alexanders intentions…

Well nobody is one hundred percent sure…an Oracle from the union of daughters of Delphi was consulted and said and I quote “beware of Khans with elephants”…(gulp’) Demetrius

Thankyou…well from our affiliates in Georgia have a safe and pleasant evening…

Aeetes…what have you done…the key is not on your tongue…they only wanted something to eat that they couldn’t tell what it was…don’t give red dwarfs and nymphs…Janus ‘the beginning and the ending of the military campaign…the alpha and omega…Rhodius tell Ovid Hesiod just didn’t want them straddling adjectives…

well ya’ know …maybe things would be different if those Eutruscans hadn’t subcontracted and cut down all their tree’s…

…i hate that…

…yes…I can see it coming…

I’ll pass it on…

…and Au’m a spoiled little brat huh…so they want my antique train huh?

…I’m not going to London…

…so they’re gonna’ accuse of bathing too much huh…

…if the shoe fits…

…oh for the love of Delaware indians…if that’s all it is I’m staying in Spain…

But you’ve got to give the magic taquito a chance, they won’t understand the mole’…

…he’s write…our failure to act will speak louder than words …Perhaps Isocrates is rite…even after I wrote my book and bought a house…look what my stepson has done with my well trained army…

…don’t take my word for it…there is consensus to go through carthage back to Georgia and on to Africa…

Why don’t you come straight way to me…

Why don’t you come straight way to me…

….do they have cake?…

….some but they need more eggs…

I want the capital in Thebes…I don’t care how you regentrify the pheonicians

I want the capital in Thebes…I don’t care how you regentrify the pheonicians