"Jim Wilkins" on Sat, 4 Aug 2012 13:47:14 -0400
typed in alt.survival the following:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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pyotr filipivich wrote:

I want to revive either a Mongol Horde, or one of the
Seljuk Turk
armies,

How about borrowing the horde from those credit card commercials?

They are supposed to be the Visigoths, who sacked Rome, though that
was partly a civil war rather than an invasion of outsiders.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Rome_(410)
I don't know why they have English accents. Back then the Britons were
usually the invadees.

Back then (4/5th C) the "Britons" were Roman Citizens. A lot left
Britain with the Saxon invasion, and came back with the Normans.

"One big dysfunctional family argument - with armies."

Afterwards they settled in Spain, became soft and decadent, and were
conquered by the Moors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus

Here's a good one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulagu_Khan
One of my party costumes is his accountant, in chain mail with a
briefcase. I do his "head counts".

Arrgh.

"To sack their staff, to terminate their projects, reallocate
their budgets and take their corner offices; to hear the lamentations
of their PR flacks and lobbyists - that is good." Cohen the
Bureaucrat.
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pyotr filipivich
Most journalists these days couldn't investigate a missing chocolate cake
at a pre-school without a Democrat office holder telling them what to look for,
where, and why it is Geroge Bush's fault.