On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:18:47 -0700 joanna <123hop at comcast.net> writes:
> You're kidding, right?
>
> Caligula's appointing his horse is a historical cliche, often
> trotted
> out on the occasion of certain kinds of appts -- like Bush and
> Miers.
True, but I invoked this cliche first. It's sort of like after Hurricane Katrina when I wrote a post here, titled, "Where's Dick Cheney?" asking where the vaunted VP was during the whole debacle that followed that storm. Sure enough within a couple of days, Derrick Jackson in the Boston Globe wrote a column bearing the same title, asking the same question.
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> Joanna
>
> Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:08:25 -0400 Jim Farmelant
> <farmelantj at juno.com>
> >writes:
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> >Once again, I have had an idea expressed on this list that
> >has been ripped off by a prominent columnist, this
> >time, Maureen Dowd, in today's piece, "The Trouble
> >with Harry," on Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers.
> >I made a comparison between that nomination and
> >Caligua's naming of his horse Incitatus for the office
> >of consul. Sure enough, Ms. Dowd in today's
> >column, in the print version (but not the online version
> >of the column), there is a subheading which
> >asks, "Who's the next appointee, Caligua's
> >horse?"
> >
> >Jim F.
> >
> >
> >
> >>Well, Bush seems to following in the footsteps of
> >>Caligua who was said to have named his horse,Incitatus, consul.
> >>Perhaps, he will similarly come to a bad end.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Chuck
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