April 30, 2004
Trojan War
Manfred Korfmann, director of the excavations at Troy, comments on whether or not the Trojan War depicted in Homer's Iliad, like, happened.
Ok, I teach this stuff and that is a pretty boring question. How about, shouldn't Helen be prettier than Achilles? And how many millihelens can Brad Pitt register anyway? I mean, wouldn't that need another unit of measurement seeing as he is a guy?
Posted by Ghost of a flea at April 30, 2004 07:31 AM
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From what I see in the tv ad, the film's writing team must have pulled an all-nighter trying to come up with a Gladiator-esque pre-battle psych-up line.
"Immortality! Take it, it's yours!" or something like that. Yeesh.
Posted by: Mike Campbell at April 30, 2004 12:08 PM
Maybe it's because it is after 2 a.m., but the first thought that struck me when I clicked through to this post was "There's something wrong with that Kylie picture"....
:-)
Posted by: Mich at May 1, 2004 02:21 AM
Ha! Now Kylie registers at somewhere over a thousand millihelens...
Posted by: Flea at May 1, 2004 09:51 AM