 | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Mladen Pejic
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| | | Okay... Lame history lesson ON: The Byzantine empire was an Eastern Roman/Greek empire. The capital was Constantinople, which is now modern-day Istanbul, capital of Turkey (an Islamic country). Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. The Byzantine (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Mladen Pejic
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| | | | | (...) Turkey (an Islamic country). Whoops, I made an error. Istanbul is not the currect captial of Turkey; Ankara is. Sorry. Mladen Pejic, over and out! (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Geordan Hankinson
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| | | | | (...) Hi Mladen, thanks for voicing your opinion, (...) Yes I learned all about that last year... (...) It's my own made up story, this story isn't meant to be based on any thing that I think even *might* happen, The reason for the name was simply (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Mladen Pejic
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| | | | | | (...) No prob. ;-) (...) Islamic (...) Army" (...) that I (...) sounded (...) logical (...) middle (...) make (...) No, of course not! I just wanted to hear your "explanation" or reasoning. The "New Byzantine Army" still, IMHO, is a *BIG* misnomer. (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Geordan Hankinson
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| | | | | | snip (...) Ok, did anyone else find it "out of place?" cuz then I think I will change it, if more people have negative feelings about it then I think it would be appropriate to change it. -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) Don't change a story because people have negative feelings about it. Post disclaimers if you wish, but unless the story itself is somehow inciting people, don't change it. Even if people criticise the story itself, to do so violates your own (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Borislav Marinov
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| | | | | | | (...) Man Mladen, give the guy a break. Sure, the geography is off, his story will have nothing to do with the Byzantine Empire, or the radicals which want to recreate it, or its old enemyis which still exist (ex: Bulgaria). But guess what, it (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | | (...) That's an interesting point. An alternate universe where either a) the Byzantines held out or b) the Byzantine leadership took the reins of Islam--like Christian emperors of Rome--and married Islam to the Greco-Roman tradition? Then you might (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | (...) Actually, I really liked the *name*. I didn't see your explanation for the formulation of the subdivision itself. My suggestion, if it's even possible, would be to reformulate the backstory of its composition and make it, say, an agglomeration (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | | | (...) Scratch that "recommendation." That's not what I meant to put across--rather that if anything *had* to be changed, I'd change something else before the name. I really do like the name. (Thus the :D...) But again, it's your universe, and so (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Mecha-zuna, a pictoral Story... —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | (...) As most other people are saying, its your world, your story. Do what you want with it. Why does the "New Byzantine Army" *have* to have anything to do with the original empire? They could just be trying to make a connection to an ancient and (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Not so much the Turks but the Ottomans under Mehmet II (the Conqueror). Theirs was the real administrative revolution that made the final conquest of Byzantium by the Turks possible. IMHO, anyways, given that the Anatolian hinterland had been (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | (...) So take me back to Constantinople No you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks. I seem to recall my mother singing that silly song in (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Neat. I wonder what play it was to use They Might Be Giants songs... Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul. (I'll confess just about my favorite (...) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | (...) Actually the song is much older than They Might Be Giants. I can't seem to find the original credits at the moment. I'll try to find something later on. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Byzantine Brokering by Byzantium —Matthew Gerber
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| | | | (...) Original credit given as "written by J. Kennedy and N. Simon, published by Chappell & Co. ASCAP"...that from the liner notes of "Severe Tire Damage" (couldn't find my copy of "Flood" anywhere)...dated 1953 according to (URL) (23 years ago, 4-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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