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To: The Philosopher who wrote (14494)	6/8/2002 2:38:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

LOL! OK, I think I misunderstood your intent and may have misled you with the "harassing and stalking" post to E. She and I are old friends and there was no danger of her thinking I was serious. "Puny and weak" is an overstatement, but so are "rippling muscles".

To: The Philosopher who wrote (14494)	6/8/2002 5:13:30 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

"Hernan Cortes didn't conquer Mexico: it was just one stroke of bastard's luck after another that his head didn't end up on the Aztec skull racks. With his cackhanded squad dead before Spanish typhus could sap their empire, the Aztecs could have challenged European settlement in North America (wagon trains versus obsidian knives - now there's a scenario)." Veronica Horwell, The What If Game: Veronica Horwell Speculates on History's Near Misses, The Guardian (London), Jun 10, 2000. From "A Word A Day", June 4, 2002 wordsmith.org