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To: Lou Weed who wrote (241328)	9/8/2007 3:54:19 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine....why do you think the saying "don't shoot the messenger" exists?!? Read carefully. Its because he/she is impartial....hence the reason you don't shoot him/her. No, it's because if you shoot the person who brings you bad news, you'll never get reliable information again. A person doesn't have to be certifiably "impartial" to deliver a truthful message...if they did, none of us would know any facts at all...

To: Lou Weed who wrote (241328)	9/8/2007 6:39:12 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 281500

There is an old tried and true technique that isn't used anymore. Just let them run themselves to death. Pheidippides (Greek: Fe?d?pp?d??, sometimes given as Phidippides or Philippides), hero of Ancient Greece, is the central figure in a story which was the inspiration for the modern sporting event, the marathon. The traditional story relates that Pheidippides (530 BC–490 BC), an Athenian herald, was sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon, Greece. He ran 240 km (150 miles) in two days. He then ran the 40 km (25 miles) from the battlefield by the town of Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word "?e?????aµe?" (Nenikékamen, 'We have won' or 'We are victorious') and died on the spot. Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to the historian Herodotus, who wrote the history of the Persian Wars in his Histories (composed about 440 BC). en.wikipedia.org