Bored Board ????

[Grahameeboy]

hey.. think about it... how can i be all promise and no deliver when everybody wants to sleep with me.... and Speedie

He brought home with him a suit of clothes of such exquisite style and cut in fashion-- Eastern fashion, city fashion--that it filled everybody with anguish and was regarded as a peculiarly wanton affront

[Disco Dan]

hey.. think about it... how can i be all promise and no deliver when everybody wants to sleep with me.... and Speedie

It makes you gay. Thats about it.

[Grahameeboy]

hey.. think about it... how can i be all promise and no deliver when everybody wants to sleep with me.... and Speedie

Yep...sleep...............

Sleep is triggered by a complex group of hormones that are active in the main, and that respond to cues from the body itself and the environment. About 80 percent of sleep is dreamless, and is known as non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep.

And for you Boomer

Question: How do you control the habit of hand practice?
Answer: There are two basic options:
1)have more sex, and/or
2)think less about sex.

[boomer]

It makes you gay. Thats about it.

least i'm getting some.... how 'bout you.... Virgil?!

ang Graham.. huh>?>?!!!

[Grahameeboy]

least i'm getting some.... how 'bout you.... Virgil?!

ang Graham.. huh>?>?!!!

Virgil was born in the village of Andes, near Mantua in Cisalpine Gaul (Gaul south of the Alps; present-day northern Italy). Virgil's ancestry, though much speculated about, is at best uncertain. Some scholars have claimed Celtic ancestry based upon the location of his birth and upon a perceived "Celtic" strain in his verse. Other scholars suggest Etruscan or Umbrian descent by examining the linguistic or ethnic markers of the region. Analysis of his name has led to beliefs that he descended from earlier Roman colonists. Modern speculation ultimately is not supported by narrative evidence either from his own writings or his later biographers.


[edit] Early works
Virgil received his first education when he was 5 years old. He later went to Rome to study rhetoric, medicine, and astronomy, which he soon abandoned for philosophy. In this period, while Virgil was in the school of Siro the Epicurean, he began to write poetry. A group of small but great poems attributed to the youthful Virgil survive, but are largely considered spurious. One, the Catalepton, consists of fourteen short poems, some of which may be Virgil's, and another, a short narrative poem titled the Culex (the mosquito), was attributed to Virgil as early as the 1st century AD. These dubious poems are sometimes referred to as the Appendix Vergiliana.

In 42 BC, after the defeat of Julius Caesar's assassins, Brutus and Cassius, the demobilized soldiers of the victors settled on expropriated land and Virgil's estate near Mantua was confiscated. Virgil explores the various emotions surrounding these appropriations and other aspects of rural life in the Eclogues, his earliest poetry first published in the mid-30's BC. A number of the eclogues, notably the second, but also the third, the fifth, the seventh and the tenth, touch on the topic of love between males, often of a pederastic nature. Ancient writers assumed that the character of Corydon in the second eclogue, lover of Alexis, represented Virgil himself, and Alexis represented Alexander, a slave given to Virgil by Pollio. The theme of pederastic love was later also taken up in his epic poem in the story of Nisus and Euryalus. Modern scholars largely reject the effort to seek to identify him with characters in his poetry and thus to garner further biographical details from his own life.

Virgil soon became part of the circle of Maecenas, Octavian's capable agent d'affaires who sought to counter sympathy for Mark Antony among the leading families by rallying Roman literary figures to Octavian's side. He gained many connections with other leading literary figures of the time, including Horace and Varius Rufus (who later helped finish the Aeneid). After the Eclogues were completed, Virgil spent the years 37 BC–29 BC on the Georgics ("On Farming"), which was written in honor of Maecenas, and is the source of the expression tempus fugit ("time flies"). However, Octavian, who had defeated Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and upon whom the title "Augustus" had been bestowed four years later by the Roman Senate, was already pressing Virgil to write an epic to praise his regime.


[edit] Composition of the Aeneid and death

A mosaic of Virgil, in a Tunisian villa probably from the 1st century AD.Virgil responded with the Aeneid, the writing of which took up the last ten years of his life. The first six books of the epic tell how the Trojan hero Aeneas escapes from the sacking of Troy and makes his way to Italy. On the voyage, a storm drives him to the coast of Carthage, where the queen, Dido, welcomes him, and under the influence of the gods falls deeply in love with him. Jupiter recalls Aeneas to his duty, however, and he slips away from Carthage, leaving Dido to commit suicide, cursing Aeneas as revenge. On reaching Cumae, in Italy, Aeneas consults the Cumaean Sibyl, who conducts him through the Underworld and reveals his destiny to him. Aeneas is reborn as the creator of Imperial Rome.

The six books (of "first writing") are modeled on Homer's Odyssey, but the last six are the Roman answer to the Iliad. Aeneas is betrothed to Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus, but Lavinia had already been promised to Turnus, the king of the Rutulians, who is roused to war by the Fury Allecto. The Aeneid ends with a single combat between Aeneas and Turnus, whom Aeneas defeats and kills, spurning his plea for mercy.

Virgil traveled with Augustus to Greece. En route, Virgil caught a fever, from which he died in Brundisium harbor, leaving the Aeneid unfinished. Augustus ordered Virgil's literary executors, Lucius Varius Rufus and Plotius Tucca, to disregard Virgil's own wish that the poem be burned, instead ordering it published with as few editorial changes as possible. As a result, the text of the Aeneid that exists may contain faults which Virgil was planning to correct before publication. However, the only obvious imperfections are a few lines of verse that are metrically unfinished (i.e., not a complete line of dactylic hexameter). Other alleged "imperfections" are subject to scholarly debate.

Incomplete or not, the Aeneid was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. It proclaimed the imperial mission of the Roman Empire, but at the same time could pity Rome's victims and feel their grief. Dido and Turnus, who are both casualties of Rome's destiny, are more attractive figures than Aeneas, whose single-minded devotion to his goal may seem almost repellent to the modern reader. However, at the time Aeneas was considered to exemplify virtue and pietas (roughly translated as piety, though the word is far more complex and has a sense of being duty-bound and respectful of divine will, family and homeland). Nevertheless, Aeneas struggles between doing what he wants to do as a man, and doing what he must as a virtuous hero. In the view of some modern critics, Aeneas' inner turmoil and shortcomings make him a more realistic character than the heroes of Homeric poetry, such as Odysseus.


[edit] Later views of Virgil
Even as the Roman empire collapsed, literate men acknowledged that the Christianized Virgil was a master poet, even when they ceased to read him. Gregory of Tours read Virgil and some other Latin poets, though he cautions us that "We ought not to relate their lying fables, lest we fall under sentence of eternal death." Surviving medieval collections of manuscripts containing Virgil's works include the Vergilius Augusteus, the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus.

Dante made Virgil his guide to Hell and Purgatory in The Divine Comedy. Dante also mentions Virgil in De vulgari eloquentia, along with Ovid, Lucan and Statius as one of the four regulati poetae (ii, vi, 7).

Virgil is still considered one of the greatest of the Latin poets, and the Aeneid is a fixture of most classical studies programs.

[Disco Dan]

least i'm getting some.... how 'bout you.... Virgil?!

ang Graham.. huh>?>?!!!

dovers arse doesnt count hahaha


I dont kiss and tell... well not online anyway

[Grahameeboy]

dovers arse doesnt count hahaha


I dont kiss and tell... well not online anyway

Well if he can talk out of it surely he can count out of it............

[Maha]

a complex group of homos that are active in man

Are you reffering to 'that' pic?......Bling to you Grahameeboyzeeee

[boomer]

dovers arse doesnt count hahaha


I dont kiss and tell... well not online anyway

any hole's a goal.


You don't kiss full stop.. you just trawl these boards looking for a shag.. * cough finns alter ego.. cough... and others...!

you show about as much finesse with the opposite sex as Gareth does...

[boomer]

Are you reffering to 'that' pic?......Bling to you Grahameeboyzeeee

you want a piece of me too....

[Grahameeboy]

any hole's a goal.


You don't kiss full stop.. you just trawl these boards looking for a shag.. * cough finns alter ego.. cough... and others...!

you show about as much finesse with the opposite sex as Gareth does...

What about 'own goals'..........

[Grahameeboy]

you want a piece of me too....

how much is an ounce on the street these days

[boomer]

What about 'own goals'..........

i like self gratification as much as the next person...

[Maha]

you want a piece of me too....

You need time to recover surely?......

[boomer]

how much is an ounce on the street these days

my ass ain't available on the streets... and class a stuff like this is outta your reach homo