X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a77997b8d7c675eb X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-13 11:31:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!cyclone.swbell.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone1.gnilink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3E99ACDB.6010008@netscape.net> From: Rusty User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ASCII Art Fart for Fri, Apr 11, 2003 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.254.215.253 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1050258665 12.254.215.253 (Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:31:05 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:31:05 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:31:05 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:22776 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. > > Of course, now we're bombing all the ancient tombs and monuments there, so > pretty soon you'll be right, and the only culture will be in Christian > countries that we don't like bombing. > Saddam did a pretty good job of taking down old monuments in favor of putting up statues of himself.