--- David Jonsson wrote: > I think it is very bad that they have been killed...
> Could there be any connection between the US state > Georgia and the former Soviet republic Georgia? Well ... in a perverse way, perhaps the connection is in the lore and the meme itself - the killing a dreaded beast.... i.e. the "slaying" of a mythical beast by mythical saint (who a number of infamous kings were named after) could be the operative word here ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George

