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quote: Originally posted by orange George Steinbrenner

Ha. Ha ha. Hahaha! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

Let's-go-Yank-ees! *clap, clap, clapclapclap*



-Arrian

	25-06-2002 23:26									#62
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Ronald Reagan

	26-06-2002 00:28									#63
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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever Ronald Reagan? Edgar J?

quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Ronald Reagan

Well, that's two votes, I guess.

Psychotic Bastard? I don't think so. Ronny wasn't a lunatic... senile yes, wacko no. Nancy on the other hand...

-Arrian

	26-06-2002 00:44									#64
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Ronald Reagan

	26-06-2002 01:47									#65
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Chegitz, I was thinking of old Papa Doc Douvalier. He fits perfectly.

	26-06-2002 02:11									#66
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Well, the Reverand Jim Jones of the Guyana massacre would be a definite religo/social candidate.
Influencing scores of people to drink Rat Poison Grape Kool-Aid ranks right up there.
Put him in the "Charismatic Cuckoo" sub-section. And don't forget David Koresh and that dude with the Nike/Asteroid death cult a few years back. Applewhite I think his name was.
I think those groups are fascinating...

	26-06-2002 02:16									#67
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They are, but I'm more interested in nuggets from the distant past for two reasons...

1- They're more likely to be a novel experience.

2- There's more scope for evil gossip being passed off as fact.

	26-06-2002 03:47									#68
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Hmmmm...sadly, our great land is bereft of such people, and we can't be bothered (in fact, it's against the school charters) to learn of other cultures.

But what about bastard explorers like Cortez? That would be a nice peek at subjugation and horror.

	26-06-2002 04:33									#69
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hmmmm or the in-fighting successors of Pizarro, there's some fun guys...

	26-06-2002 05:56									#70
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Mohammed


Married a 9-year old, had visions from god, and set out to conquer the world.

The very image of a raving lunatic sex maniac.

	26-06-2002 06:06									#71
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Ooh, Pizarro, yes. Certainly one of history's worst bastards.

	26-06-2002 06:16									#72
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Jesus:

Thought he was the Son of God and started preaching it to people, who actually believed him. Loony to the max.

	26-06-2002 06:38									#73
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Basileios II Bulgaroktonos (the Slaughterer of the Bulgarians), a Byzantine Emperor.

After he won the battle of Kleidion against a Bulgarian army, he ordered 14000 soldiers to be blinded with a branding iron... out of a hundred men, one lucky soldier only got one eye burned, so that they could lead the sad army home... altogether, it makes 27 860 eyes. I'd say that qualifies as a 'barkind mad psychopath'.

Strangely enough, the christians seem to remember Basileios as a good, fair and just emperor... as they remember the Roman Commodus.

edit: He lived around year 1000, cannot remember the exact figures...

	26-06-2002 06:57									#74
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Timor the Lame

Still lies in state in Sarmarkand

Laid waste from Moscow to Delhi, from China to Damascus. Once had his men decapitate every man in Damascus and stack the heads in piles before him. He got 80,000 by the morning.

	26-06-2002 06:58									#75
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quote: Strangely enough, the christians seem to remember Basileios as a good, fair and just emperor.

Well he was pretty good at getting what he set out to do done (ie driving the bulgarians out of the Empire and smacking them down hard) and his reign was fairly stable once he got established. The only major thing he did wrong from a Machiavellian standpoint is not have a kid and let his idiot brother succead him and undo a lot of the good he did for the Empire.