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Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

Ar an so. lb doag de m0 Feabhra, scr0obh J. J. Lodder:

Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:05:39 +0100
Silvano <Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> wrote:

Sam Plusnet hat am 12.02.2026 um 20:22 geschrieben:

If he had managed to gain the women's vote he would have been fine.

Just in case you REALLY don't know, women had no voting rights in Athens when Socrates was alive.

They allowed women in Athens? From what I recall they preferred boys.

Socrates' wife was Memorable, even,

Jan
(if only I could remember her name)

Xanthippe, which I only know because Marc-Uwe Kling mentioned it in one of his
stand-up pieces and I had to look it up.

Sorry, yes I know of course.
It was a feeble joke on my part on 'Memorable'.

Here she is, in full Memorable glory, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_en_Xantippe_Socrates_%26_Xantippe_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-1909-132.jpg>

Jan




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Ar an t-ocht|| l|i d|-ag de m|! Feabhra, scr|!obh J. J. Lodder:

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

Ar an s|-|| l|i d|-ag de m|! Feabhra, scr|!obh J. J. Lodder:

[...] Socrates' wife was Memorable, even,

Jan
(if only I could remember her name)

Xanthippe, which I only know because Marc-Uwe Kling mentioned it in one of his stand-up pieces and I had to look it up.

Sorry, yes I know of course.
It was a feeble joke on my part on 'Memorable'.

Here she is, in full Memorable glory, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_en_Xantippe_Socrates_%26_Xantippe_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-1909-132.jpg>

Surprisingly easy on the eyes, though thatrCOs probably just that sherCOs halfnaakt!
--
rCyAs I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stoutrCO
(C. Moore)
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Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

Ar an t-ocht. lb doag de m0 Feabhra, scr0obh J. J. Lodder:

Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

Ar an so. lb doag de m0 Feabhra, scr0obh J. J. Lodder:

[...] Socrates' wife was Memorable, even,

Jan
(if only I could remember her name)

Xanthippe, which I only know because Marc-Uwe Kling mentioned it in
one of his stand-up pieces and I had to look it up.

Sorry, yes I know of course.
It was a feeble joke on my part on 'Memorable'.

Here she is, in full Memorable glory, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Socrates_en_Xantippe_Socrates_%26_

Xantippe_(titel_op_object),_RP-P-1909-132.jpg>

Surprisingly easy on the eyes, though that's probably just that she's halfnaakt!

It is memorable that back then all women were always 'halfnaakt',
and that they all looked like Venus,
and that they all had a nose -like that-.
Renaissance painters loved her.

That's why Caesar couldn't resist Cleopatra.
Even Panoramix fell in love with her,
on account of her nose,

Jan








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