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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0915/breaking36.html (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0915/breaking36.html)
Thanks Kev, that made my day!
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That's funny!! [laugh] In a weird related story my good friend's ranch is in west Texas near Cross Plains, TX. It's in the middle of no-where north of Brownwood, TX. Believe it or not the creator of Conan the Barbarian was Robert E. Howard, a native of Cross Plains. He is a local hero and there is a museum there in his honor. We're talking about a small country town with a population of about 1,000 folks. I always think about the Conan comic books every time I drive through town.
http://www.crossplains.com/howard/ (http://www.crossplains.com/howard/)
Apparently Conan has gotten a good education since then and is now a professor at a university in the UK!! [thumbsup] [laugh]
Quote from: fastwin on September 20, 2011, 05:59:48 PM
Apparently Conan has gotten a good education since then and is now a professor at a university in the UK!! [thumbsup] [laugh]
Not anymore. They booted his ass!
I stand corrected. [laugh]
that right there is funny.
His profile indicated he had been “ripped from his mother's womb on the corpse-strewn battlefields of his war-torn homeland, Cimmeria, and has been preparing for academic life ever sinceâ€.
“In 2011/12, he will be teaching on the following courses: 'The Relevance of Crom in the Modern World', 'Theories of Literature', 'Vengeance for Beginners',
'Deciphering the Riddle of Steel' and 'D.H. Lawrence'.
“He strongly objects to the terms of the Croke Park agreement and the current trend for remaking 1980s films that he believes were perfectly good enough in the first place.â€
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When the professor was asked what was best in academic life his response was, "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women". [laugh]
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That's been my philosophy for as long as I can remember ;D
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It made me the man I am today ;D
Quote from: fastwin on September 20, 2011, 05:59:48 PM
That's funny!! [laugh] In a weird related story my good friend's ranch is in west Texas near Cross Plains, TX. It's in the middle of no-where north of Brownwood, TX. Believe it or not the creator of Conan the Barbarian was Robert E. Howard, a native of Cross Plains. He is a local hero and there is a museum there in his honor. We're talking about a small country town with a population of about 1,000 folks. I always think about the Conan comic books every time I drive through town.
Howard was a badass, and the the best writer (ever) to come from Texas.