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View Poll Results: which is the best word ??
Batrachomyomachia 9 28.13%
Froschmäusekrieg 11 34.38%
The blue one next to the fish 17 53.13%
PORTUGAL !! 5 15.63%
Yvan Le Terrible! 2 6.25%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-28-2009, 02:41 PM   #1
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battle for world domination !! (poll)
all right, there has been some confusion over which of these two is the better word, so i've decided to stop all current business and devote all attention to this pressing matter ! the answer MUST be decided !!!

wait for the poll, y'all.
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Old 04-28-2009, 02:42 PM   #2
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what poll? *Wanders off looking for blue Portugese fish in the waterfall*
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Old 04-28-2009, 02:43 PM   #3
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There's a poll? Where?
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Old 04-28-2009, 02:45 PM   #4
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what poll? *Wanders off looking for blue Portugese fish in the waterfall*
damned, i KNEW i was forgetting something...
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look ! up in the sky ! it's a bird ! it's a plane ! NO ! IT'S A POLL !!!
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Old 04-28-2009, 02:46 PM   #5
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Why should Frogs & Mice battle for world domination - & why should we worry about it ??

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Old 04-28-2009, 02:53 PM   #6
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Why should Frogs & Camelids battle for world domination - & why should we worry about it ??

I voted 1 or 2

Fixed it for you.

I only voted once this time. Spooky!
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Old 04-28-2009, 02:56 PM   #7
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:20 PM   #8
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Fixed it for you.

I only voted once this time. Spooky!
Which did you vote for for me? - I used to be decisive now I'm not so sure
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:22 PM   #9
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What on earth have Camelids (llamas) got to do with mice??
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Old 04-28-2009, 03:22 PM   #10
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another good question !!!
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another good question !!!
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Batrachomyomachia - It simply MUST have somethjing to do with bactrian camels or andean llamas, mustn't it?
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YES !!! that's the guy !!!
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Batrachomyomachia - It simply MUST have somethjing to do with bactrian camels or andean llamas, mustn't it?
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Batrachomyomachia (‘battle of the frogs and mice’), a short Greek mockepic poem in the style of Homeric epic, sometimes attributed to Homer in antiquity and difficult to date but perhaps of the fifth century BC. The story derives from a fable of Aesop; a mouse Psīcharpax (‘crumb-stealer’) is invited by a frog Physignathos (‘puff-cheek’) son of Peleus to ride on his back to visit his watery kingdom. Unfortunately, at the sight of a water-snake the frog dives and the mouse is drowned. But the incident has been seen by another mouse, and a one-day Homeric war ensues between the mice and the frogs, in which the mice seem to be winning. At the request of Athena, Zeus intervenes, and having failed with thunderbolts sends crabs to quell the strife.

So actually, it was the crabs that won!

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Batrachomyomachia (‘battle of the frogs and mice’), a short Greek mockepic poem in the style of Homeric epic, sometimes attributed to Homer in antiquity and difficult to date but perhaps of the fifth century BC. The story derives from a fable of Aesop; a mouse Psīcharpax (‘crumb-stealer’) is invited by a frog Physignathos (‘puff-cheek’) son of Peleus to ride on his back to visit his watery kingdom. Unfortunately, at the sight of a water-snake the frog dives and the mouse is drowned. But the incident has been seen by another mouse, and a one-day Homeric war ensues between the mice and the frogs, in which the mice seem to be winning. At the request of Athena, Zeus intervenes, and having failed with thunderbolts sends crabs to quell the strife.

So actually, it was the crabs that won!

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well, yes. but also :

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The word batrachomyomachia has come to mean "a silly altercation". The German translation, Froschmäusekrieg, has been used to describe disputes such as the one between the School of Math and the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.
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