On Dec 14, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
Louis Proyect wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjdXwLQrRJ8 that guy has a good arm! but it looks like Dubya's dedication to exercising all the time may have improved his reflexes.
Hitting him was not the point. As I learned in Morocco 50 years ago, in an Islamic culture to put one's shoe in one's hand is a severely threatening gesture and to throw it is a gesture expressing unmitigated contempt. If there is a Western term for this sort of thing, it is to be found in the *codex duello*. It is the equivalent of slapping one's enemy across the face with one's glove. Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures." Herakleitos of Ephesos
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