The Ides of March

[FelineOverlord]

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[mrsadm]

1. In my high school Latin class

we all wore black armbands to school on this date.

BTW it's "a bit more closely" not "a bit closer", at least is was in the old days.

[Squinch]

2. Grammar! I love it!

I actually put down a best selling book recently because it had the following phrase: "In he and I's marriage."
I think my eyes began to bleed.

[RVN VET71]

5. LOL: Everybody knows it's supposed to be "In they and I's marriage."

Now put extra absorbent bandages on your eyes!

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. And, in Jamaica, it's "I and I"... is it not?

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[Fortinbras Armstrong]

15. "I and I" has several meanings

It can mean the spiritual self conjoined with the physical self. It can mean God (Jah) and me being and working together. It can mean Jah and all people together. It can mean two people together. It's a beautiful concept.

[KS Toronado]

21. Always thought I and I and I was 3

Believe somebody even wrote a song about it.

[malaise]

3. Is today that former guy's new inauguration day?

[Zoonart]

9. indictment day?

Former guy's astrological chart is really bad for the rest of Match. Just sayin'.

[malaise]

11. That would be perfect - AdVANCE

those indictments

[Tanuki]

4. Caesar salad, anyone?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Thanks. That's the image I was going to post. NT

[ProfessorGAC]

7. This Is Why...

...we can't celebrate our anniversary.
If we did, somebody has to stab a friend in the back!!!

[3Hotdogs]

8. Willie the Shake proved that Julie-boy was a coke-head.

His last quote,

"A toot, Brute?"

[spike jones]

20. Just as Brute stabbed Caesar in the back,

he asked him how many scones he had eaten at the pre-meeting buffet. Caesar turned and said, “Et Tu Brute.”

[VWolf]

12. Today also happens to be my eldest daughter's 21st birthday!

She's received a beer mug and at least 4 shot glasses so far

Kids today - one track minds

I was NEVER like that .... oh no, NEVERRRRRRR LOL

[Squinch]

13. Your oldest daughter was born exactly 100 years after my grandmother.

it is her birthday too.

[VWolf]

14. Both extraordinary women, I am sure :)

Is she still alive? If so, congratulations!

One of grandmothers lived to 105.

[Squinch]

19. No. She died a long time ago, but it is the birthday of extraordinary women

[In_The_Wind]

16. A day when stayin' home alone is best.

Me: I'm going to reassemble my crock-pot. No poisons there.

Time to start beans and bacon simmering. Perfect with a fresh Caesar salad.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

17. The assassination of Caesar shows a great example of the law of unintended consequences

Brutus, Cassius et al believed that Caesar was harming the Roman Republic, and their killing him was an act of tyrannicide. However, the assassination touched off a civil war which brought down the Roman Republic.

Admittedly, the Republic had been teetering for the better part of a century, with the Senate's rejection of the attempts by the Gracchi brothers to reform the Republic. It is evident to modern eyes that Sulla's First Civil War in 88-87 BCE marked the beginning of the end of the Republic. This was followed by Sulla's dictatorship in 83, which essentially lasted until his death in 78. Things kept going downhill -- the First Triumvirate, the Second Triumvirate, Caesar being named Dictator For Life in 49.

[sagetea]

18. Lol!!

I get my first shot today...though, it's a good thing and I know it's coming and I'm also not Caesar.

sage

[erronis]

22. Another important event on the Ides of March:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-14-2021

By the time most of you will read this it will be March 15, which is too important a day to ignore. As the man who taught me to use a chainsaw said, it is immortalized by Shakespeare’s famous warning: “Cedar! Beware the adze of March!”

He put it that way because the importance of March 15 is, of course, that it is the day in 1820 that Maine, the Pine Tree State, joined the Union.

Maine statehood had national repercussions. The inhabitants of this northern part of Massachusetts had asked for statehood in 1819, but their petition was stopped dead by southerners who refused to permit a free state—one that did not permit slavery—to enter the Union without a corresponding “slave state.” The explosive growth of the northern states had already given free states control of the House of Representatives, but the South held its own in the Senate, where each state got two votes. The admission of Maine would give the North the advantage, and southerners insisted that Maine’s admission be balanced with the admission of a southern slave state, lest those opposed to slavery use their power in the federal government to restrict enslavement in the South.

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In 1859, Abraham Lincoln would articulate an ideology for the party, defining it as the party of ordinary Americans standing together against the oligarchs of slavery, and when he ran for president in 1860, he knew it was imperative that he get the momentum of Maine men on his side. In those days Maine voted for state and local offices in September, rather than November, so a party’s win in Maine could start a wave. “As Maine goes, so goes the nation,” the saying went.