Hymn to Apollo

The people who made that also make very nice garden gnomes.

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Where did they find her exactly?

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She has very beautiful, fair skin for her age! I wish mine was as good both Before C. and A.C. However; I prefer complete legs to perfect skin after having been dug up. What is that in the middle? ...carrots? Seems a strange place for both: vegetables and gals like these.

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It waspart of the decoration of a bath complex of 2nd-3rd century date.

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Speaking of garden gnomes, is it true that there's a radical free-the-garden-gnomes group in France that occasionally gnomenaps them in an attempt to free them from their servitude, or am I imagining such a thing?

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That's not exactly--where, geographically?

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I'm sure he know that Skopje is the capital of Macedonia.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Gnome_Liberation_Front

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...but then the whole of that country is sometimes referred to as 'Skopje autonomous region' in order not to incite the Greeks.

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They're fingers.

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Fingers? This is revolting! What on earth are they doing there? But, on second thought, lingam-formed vegetables (unboiled, presumably) wouldn´t much improve the impression.

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...otherwise they might invade! In ancient times they regarded the Macedonians as barbarians anyhow.

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Since visiting Greek Macedonia and listening to my friends' paranoid nationalistic rants about Albanians, Skopje-ians and Turks, I wouldn't put it past them.

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What better sport is there than inciting Greeks.

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Some eyars ago I attended the gala opeing of a Macedonian Studies conference at Columbia. In attendece was the patriarch of the Macdonian Orthodox Church in America. Some men in traditional Greek costume (of medeival peasants, I mean, not Chitones)--they had been giving a folk dancing display--had a little shoving match with some of his handlers. This caused Erich Gruen to quip, "We might see an assassination tonight."

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So it's true, then! Well, I suppose there are less noble pursuits, but I thought either I was imagining it or Malkhos was making it up.

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Perhaps it's a gesture of modesty--either that, or... ah, shall we say, self-indulgence.

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Indeed, one could try telling them that it's silly for them to get so worked up about these Skopje-Macedonians since they're all of the same Slavic descent.

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