What would you do ?

[Techno]

Are you trying to tell me that wasn't true ?
Talk about illusions (or do I mean allusions ?) being shattered.
Cheers - Phil.

[Ithoriel]

I doubt Cleopatra needed to be either beautiful or particularly good in bed to win over either Caesar Mark Anthony. Not saying she wasn't both, never met the lady*, just that she didn't need to be.

When Julius "our bald whoremonger**" Caesar found her she was a teenage damsel in distress looking to escape a forced marriage to her brother and a life of being bossed around by the palace eunuchs who seem to have been running the place. She also just happened to be able to give him control of a country that supplied much of the corn supply for Rome while distancing him from the Egyptians who had just butchered Pompey the Great. What's not to like

Mark Anthony found a queen and living goddess who had been Caesar's mistress and who's child was a possible heir to the Caesarian faction. And she still provided a strangle-hold on Rome's grain supply.

Plus, of course, Billy Crystal's purported assertion that when it comes to sex women need a reason but men just need an opportunity may have come in to play.

*Despite what my children might tell you I am NOT that old!

**According to his own legionaries song, apparently

[sixsideddice]

*wonders... "if I went forward 500 years, would Games Workshop be selling the new improved 90th edition of the Warhammer rules, and would their figure blister packs be 100 pounds per figure?" (would only need 100 of these to form an army)

Six  

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Think inflation would sink this plan. Basically add a zero every twenty years.
Beano 1979 = 6p, today £1.50
Mars Bar 1979 = 5pm today 65p
My former, departed neighbours house in 1947 £300, our old house in 1999 £12000 (our garden furniture cost more than his HOUSE)!

gW space marines in 2513... 7 grand...

[Ithoriel]

*wonders... "if I went forward 500 years, would Games Workshop be selling the new improved 90th edition of the Warhammer rules, and would their figure blister packs be 100 pounds per figure?" (would only need 100 of these to form an army)

Don't be silly i_am_win has Space Marine trademarked by then and is coining in ten grand a figure while GW is a minor trader selling 6mm "Space Wombles in HiTec Armor" for a tenner a time

[Last Hussar]

Quick and dirty method for calculating appreciation etc.

The magic number is 72 (ish- use closer numbers for easy maths)

Divide APR/Inflation into 72ish to get the number of years it will take for value to double
Likewise 72/time = Inflation

Example

How long does it take prices to double at 3% inflation?
72/3 = 21 years

If I want to double my savings in 10 years, what does the interest rate need to be
70 (easy number, remember)/10= 7%

[Techno]

"Space Wombles in HiTec Armor"

Space Wombles ?
That sounds like an ex Evil Empire worker writing.....
Or did that expression ever get out ? 
Cheers - Phil

[Fenton]

Space Womble was a pretty well known name for the original Space Marine figures  everywhere I think, I certainly heard of it way back when

[Orcs]

Go and find out if Cleopatra really was all that good at it.

Trust you to think of that FK.  Could do a Time travel sex tour - Christine Keeler(when she was young) Mata Hari, Cleopatra Etc Etc.  Would be fun and you might learn a few tricks 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Then a quick stop off at Dr Femming's for the first dose of penicillin?

[Ithoriel]

Space Wombles ?
That sounds like an ex Evil Empire worker writing.....
Or did that expression ever get out ? 
Cheers - Phil

Only ever wrote for the Specialist Games mags, so a tenuous connection.

However, it was rumoured that Space Marine Librarians might owe their existence as Librarians rather than Psykers to me. I was a librarian in the Main Library across the street from the studio that Ally & Trish Morrison shared with Bob Naismith at the time and visited them whenever I could - to scrounge decent coffee rather than drink what was available in the Library and look at what was being sculpted. No idea if it's actually true but I'd be tickled if it were. I was certainly known in my gaming circles for a tendency to a "kick in the door and spray the room with gunfire" approach to in-game situations

[sixsideddice]

Don't be silly i_am_win has Space Marine trademarked by then and is coining in ten grand a figure while GW is a minor trader selling 6mm "Space Wombles in HiTec Armor" for a tenner a time Smiley

*grins wide*

Beano 1979 = 6p, today £1.50
Mars Bar 1979 = 5pm today 65p
My former, departed neighbours house in 1947 £300, our old house in 1999 £12000 (our garden furniture cost more than his HOUSE)!

gW space marines in 2513... 7 grand...

OMG now I really feel old.... I can remember when Mars Bars and the Beano were that price  

7 grand huh...hmmmm   maybe Id better start collecting  now then, while they`re still only 15 quid each 

[FierceKitty]

Trust you to think of that FK.  Could do a Time travel sex tour - Christine Keeler(when she was young) Mata Hari, Cleopatra Etc Etc.  Would be fun and you might learn a few tricks 

Teach a few tricks.

[FierceKitty]

Of course, I meant fishing.

[fsn]

OMG now I really feel old.... I can remember when Mars Bars and the Beano were that price 

I sense I'm not the only one who says "55p for a newpaper - thats 11 shillings!"