X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a77997b8d7c675eb X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-13 11:09:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!news3.calgary.shaw.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.78.145.92 From: "lament" Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Fri, Apr 11, 2003 User-Agent: Pan/0.13.4 (She had eyes like strange sins.) Message-ID: Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 26 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:09:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.69.255.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: news3.calgary.shaw.ca 1050257360 24.69.255.232 (Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:09:20 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:09:20 MDT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:22775 On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:38:43 +0100, Sam Blanning wrote: > > "lament" wrote... >> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:28:42 +0000, ABCGi wrote: >> >> > Hah an unsophisticated and often annoying 200 year old baby culture >> > commenting on an ancient long standing culture that in its height was >> > relatively (at the time) much more culturally high scoring. >> > >> > Or so my culture calculator tells me. >> >> Iraq (if that's what you're talking about) != "ancient long standing >> culture" >> >> Remember, islam appeared six centuries after christianity... > > *cough* Iraq INVENTED culture, for, er, Christ's sake. I believe it was the > Babylonians who built the first cities there. So what? And Indo-Europeans came from Ukraine, does that mean Ukraine has ancient long-standing culture? (Hint: it doesn't; but you can find cool stuff in ancient graves) Yes, there was a very ancient civilization there. No, that civilization has nothing to do with the one that's been there for many centuries now.