On Dec 1, 2:30*am, pyotr filipivich wrote:
Jim Wilkins on Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:11:55 -0800
...Alaric the Goth read "M" on
his tax bill instead of "I VI".

* * * * From such simple mis understandings. *And the worst thing - back
in the Day, when something was said "to be carved in stone", they
meant carved in stone.
* * * * None of this cast in cement, nonsense, either.

pyotr

That's another reason they declined and fell, lowest-bidder concrete.
Look at Pompeii, only MM anno old and already falling apart. They just
couldn't listen to the Egyptians.

jsw