vanity

the devils dictionary
The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when
There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid;
And there are hens, professing to have made
A study of mankind, who say that men
Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen
Make the most clamorous fanfaronade
O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid
They're not entirely different from the hen.
Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold,
His blazing breeches and high-towering cap —
Imperiously pompous, grandly bold,
Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap!
Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue
Is that in battle he will never hurt you?
—Hannibal Hunsiker

(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

ununited states of america

keke
Northern America;

(also: canada)
(also: mexico)


Caribbean;

(also: Anguilla)
(also: Antigua and Barbuda)
(also: Aruba)
(also: Bahamas)
(also: Barbados)
(also: Bermuda (UK))
(also: British Virgin Islands (UK))
(also: Cayman Islands (UK))
(also: Cuba)
(also: Curaçao (NL))
(also: Dominica)
(also: Dominican Republic)
(also: Grenada)
(also: Guadeloupe (FR))
(also: Haiti)
(also: Jamaica)
(also: Martinique (FR))
(also: Montserrat (UK))
(also: Puerto Rico (USA)) (slave state of USA)
(also: Saint Kitts and Nevis)
(also: Saint Lucia)
(also: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
(also: Trinidad and Tobago)


Central America;

(also: Belize)
(also: Costa Rica)
(also: El Salvador)
(also: Guatemala)
(also: Honduras)
(also: Nicaragua)
(also: Panama)


South America;

(also: Argentina)
(also: Bolivia)
(also: Brazil)
(also: Chile)
(also: Colombia)
(also: Ecuador)
(also: French Guiana (FR))
(also: Guyana)
(also: Paraguay)
(also: Peru)
(also: Suriname)
(also: Uruguay)
(also: Venezuela)

trojan war

trustycoffeemug
a battle between the greeks and the trojans which probably never happened, but remains one of the most famous battles not in history.

the war allegedly began (sometime in the 12th century BC) over helen of troy, a queen who jilted her greek husband, king menelaus, for a trojan prince named paris. menelaus, incensed, declared war on the trojans and summoned his fellow greeks (including his brother agamemnon, who sacrificed his own daughter to the gods to get them some favorable sailing winds) to lay siege to the shining city of troy.

what follows is a long complicated story involving guys with long greek names, and is most notably summed up in homer's "iliad." the famous conclusion of the war, which actually isn't in said story, involved greeks sneaking themselves into troy inside a big wooden horse and massacring the populace. some of the participants got their own little self-contained sequels; for example, the tale of odysseus' return home in homer's "odyssey," and agamemnon getting iced by his wife in a play by aeschylus

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