From: dadoctah@cox.net   
      
   On 6/2/2020 2:19 PM, Bo Bradham wrote:   
   > RH Draney   wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Contemporaries of Cleopatra also said that as looks go, she was nothing   
   >> to write home about....r   
   >   
   > That may have had as much to do with postal service in 20BC Egypt   
   > as with Cleopatra's looks.   
      
   The Pharaoh was dictating, and his scribe was busily chipping away at   
   the stone tablet.  "I have plans... to form," the monarch said slowly,   
   "a personal bodyguard... of stalwart... and virile... young men."   
      
   The chips flew, but then suddenly ceased flying and the perspiring   
   chiseller looked up enquiringly.  "Excuse me, Your Majesty, but is   
   'virile' spelled with one or two testicles?"   
      
   ....r   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)