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  • August 25, 2010 at 2:18 pm #10247 Reply
    Phidippides
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    Cannot resist sharing my pun, which Herodotus may have taken in another vein: One man's Mede is another man's Persian.

    Ha, pretty good.  Did you make it up?  If so, 2500 years of comedians must have missed it.  ;D

    I just heard a factoid that the shah in Iran, of which Cyrus the Great was the first (c. 6th century B.C.), only ended in 1979 making it the longest running imperial monarchy in history.

    But didn't the Ottoman Empire take them over?

    Well, I'm guessing they kept the position of shah in place.

    August 25, 2010 at 5:54 pm #10248 Reply
    donroc
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    Yes, Phidippedes, I created the pun decades ago when I wrote an unproduced satire for film set in that era complete with Nebuchadnezzar and temple prostitutes participating in a “Super Ball” — tastefully done of course.  ::)

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