Happy Ericson Day

[splunge52]

I don't recognise the Italian as the discoverer of the new world.

[SlumpBustR]

I don't recognise the Italian as the discoverer of the new world.
post a few GD pics of some Icelandic bimbos and I will forgive you for this lame :noshit1:assed thread Mr. Girlie Pic Guru you:cuss:

personally I don't care whether some spaghetti-bender or a pony cross-breeder** discovered America --- give me boobies dammit :Lecture::ohbaby:

**[I had to Google up ethnic slurs for Icelanders and this is "the best" :yawn: I could come up with]

better still, do an Italy vs. Iceland hot babe comparison to decide this whole issue :D

[splunge52]

post a few GD pics of some Icelandic bimbos and I will forgive you for this lame :noshit1:assed thread Mr. Girlie Pic Guru you:cuss:

personally I don't care whether some spaghetti-bender or a pony cross-breeder** discovered America --- give me boobies dammit :Lecture::ohbaby:

**[I had to Google up ethnic slurs for Icelanders and this is "the best" :yawn: I could come up with]

Were they Icelanders?

Sorry about the pictures but the nice lady in the room with me might not appriciate said boobies as we do.

[BizarroAnnihilus]

post a few GD pics of some Icelandic bimbos and I will forgive you for this lame :noshit1:assed thread Mr. Girlie Pic Guru you:cuss:

personally I don't care whether some spaghetti-bender or a pony cross-breeder** discovered America --- give me boobies dammit :Lecture::ohbaby:

**[I had to Google up ethnic slurs for Icelanders and this is "the best" :yawn: I could come up with]

better still, do an Italy vs. Iceland hot babe comparison to decide this whole issue :D

Dude.

Did Annihilus ever mention it's nice having you around? You are an equal opportunity lech that never misses a one of those opportunities.

You sir...are teh :toast:

We should just make a thread of random words and whoever can come up with one that you can't twist wins some kind of boobie prize. :purgatory:

[SlumpBustR]

Were they Icelanders?

ol' Leif was indeed :Lecture:

It is believed that Leif was born about AD 970 in Iceland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland),<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson#cite_note-3)</sup> the son of Erik the Red (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_the_Red) (Old Norse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse_language): Eiríkr inn rauði), a Norse explorer and outlaw (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw) and himself the son of an outlaw, Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Eorvaldr_%C3%81svaldsson). Leif's mother was Thjodhild (Þjóðhildr).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson#cite_note-4)</sup> Erik the Red had founded two Norse colonies in Greenland, the Western Settlement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Settlement) and the Eastern Settlement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Settlement), as he named them.


Leif Erikson had two brothers, Thorvald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Eriksson) and Thorsteinn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorstein_Er%C3%ADksson), and one sister, Freydís (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyd%C3%ADs_Eir%C3%ADksd%C3%B3ttir). Leif married a woman named Thorgunna, and they had one son, Thorkell Leifsson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorkell_Leifsson).

[splunge52]

post a few GD pics of some Icelandic bimbos and I will forgive you for this lame :noshit1:assed thread Mr. Girlie Pic Guru you:cuss:



Sorry for starting a lame ass thread :sulk:

[splunge52]

ol' Leif was indeed :Lecture:

I just looked it up too.

[SlumpBustR]

Sorry for starting a lame ass thread :sulk:oh now I didn't mean to sound mean on ya I'm just working myself up into a lather waiting for BoltsOwnU to show up with a stiffy over his Chargers so I can take him down a few pegs --- he's so delusional thinking he's got a shot at football nervana this year w/ his team :shake:

[ravenb]

Poor RG, here you go :thumb:

[Jh!]

...better still, do an Italy vs. Iceland hot babe comparison to decide this whole issue :D

I think it's widely known that Italian women are teh hawt. :homer:

[splunge52]

I think it's widely known that Italian women are teh hawt. :homer:

but Icelander women have looser(sic?) morals

[Jh!]

but Icelander women have looser(sic?) morals

That makes sense. I have always been a prude. :angel:

[Muse]

That makes sense. I have always been a prude. :angel:
by the way Jh, I love that ! behind your name it says

JH!!!!!!! and explains you well :) love it:smiley_towel:

[Jh!]

by the way Jh, I love that ! behind your name it says

JH!!!!!!! and explains you well :) love it:smiley_towel:

Lol, gotta change it up a bit. ;) Nah, actually I forgot the password to my original log in from a million years ago and had to make a new name. I am too uncreative to think of anything else. :D

:bozo: :icon_eyes :shrug_n: :icon_syda

[Muse]

Lol, gotta change it up a bit. ;) Nah, actually I forgot the password to my original log in from a million years ago and had to make a new name. I am too uncreative to think of anything else. :D

:bozo: :icon_eyes :shrug_n: :icon_syda
:thumb::icon_syda

[BradyLady12]

I don't recognise the Italian as the discoverer of the new world.

I do. Because that Italian proclaimed it to the world and filed the paperwork.
So he gets the credit. Kinda like copyright. Who files first get's the recognition.

I also don't recognize the Scandinavian for other reasons too. There's
evidence the Phoenicians made the trip earlier in ancient times. They had the gall to go past Gibraltar.

Anyhow! Viva Cristoforo Colombo!!!

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/3092/italioamerigoflagny7.gif
Shot at 2006-10-09

[SteelerFan87]

I don't recognise the Italian as the discoverer of the new world.

1. He was not Italian. He was Greek. From Chios. (Same island as me :cute: )

2. Leif Ericsson can kiss my ass. If he should be credited with discovering America, why didn't he form any long term settlements here? Why didn't he tell people about his discovery?
Because he got his ass kicked by Claremonster's people, that's why.

[Muse]

1. He was not Italian. He was Greek. From Chios. (Same island as me :cute: )

2. Leif Ericsson can kiss my ass. If he should be credited with discovering America, why didn't he form any long term settlements here? Why didn't he tell people about his discovery?
Because he got his ass kicked by Claremonster's people, that's why.

oh shit



ROTFL

[BradyLady12]

1. He was not Italian. He was Greek. From Chios. (Same island as me :cute: )

Do you have any source or link for that?
There was speculation he was Jewish too.

[Undertaker #59]

Do you have any source or link for that?
There was speculation he was Jewish too.


He should not have stated that as fact. It is one of many competing theories it seems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_theories_of_Christopher_Columbus

Along with Genoese, Portuguese, Catalan, Norwegian, Basque, Corsican, or a Spanish Jew who publicly converted to Christianity.

However, historical consensus claims he was Genoese.

Here is the Greek part:

Several historians have speculated that Columbus may have come from the island of Chios (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chios) in Greece. The argument supporting this theory states that Chios was under Genoese control at the time, and was thus part of the Republic of Genoa, and that he kept his journal in Greek and Latin instead of the Italian of Genoa. He also referred to himself as "Columbus de Terra Rubra" (Columbus of the Red Earth); Chios was known for its red soil in the south of the island where grow the mastic trees that the Genoese traded, but also Terrarossa and Camporosso (both meaning Redearth) are little cities inside the republic of Genoa.

More evidence about the Greek ancestry of Columbus include the following:
Columbus' signature "Xro-Ferens" Christophoros is Greek-Latin or Byzantine, and spelled Chios with a Greek 'X'. He also named Cape Maysi in Cuba using Greek words, Alpha and Omega.

Columbus' son Ferdinand wrote that his ancestors have always followed the sea. Unless the Columbo family of Genoa had a long history of being ships tailors or official shearers of sea-sheep, they were not related. In fact, even though they were living in Genoa at the time that Ferdinand was writing about his father, they are not mentioned. Nor are they mentioned in the will of Columbus.

The islanders from Chios are known for their skill on the sea and for the number of sea-captains and ship owners from there. If Columbus was Greek, Chios is the most likely island he would be from.

[BradyLady12]

Thank you UndieTaker. Much appreciated. That was one I never heard before.
History Channel had a segment on that one night and I don't recall the Greek.
Some Italians do have Greek in them since Greeks were slaves in Italy under Rome.
My last name is Spanish ( which is my maiden name) but I am of Sicilian ancestry and I consider myself Italian. Southern Italy was conquered by Spain and was also a Cananiite stronghold and port as well as Greek at one point.

As for Colombus' education it was not uncommon for Jesuits to take children from families and educate them. The idea the earth was spherical was known by Greeks and in the ancient world and his navigation tools were available due to the Saracen Arabs.

[SteelerFan87]

Do you have any source or link for that?
There was speculation he was Jewish too.

"Several historians have speculated that Columbus may have come from the island of Chios in Greece.[18] The argument supporting this theory states that Chios was under Genoese control at the time, and was thus part of the Republic of Genoa, and that he kept his journal in Greek and Latin instead of the Italian of Genoa. He also referred to himself as "Columbus de Terra Rubra" (Columbus of the Red Earth); Chios was known for its red soil in the south of the island where grow the mastic trees that the Genoese traded, but also Terrarossa and Camporosso (both meaning Redearth) are little cities inside the republic of Genoa.

More evidence about the Greek ancestry of Columbus include the following:

Columbus' signature "Xro-Ferens" Christophoros is Greek-Latin or Byzantine, and spelled Chios with a Greek 'X'. He also named Cape Maysi in Cuba using Greek words, Alpha and Omega.

Columbus' son Ferdinand wrote that his ancestors have always followed the sea. Unless the Columbo family of Genoa had a long history of being ships tailors or official shearers of sea-sheep, they were not related. In fact, even though they were living in Genoa at the time that Ferdinand was writing about his father, they are not mentioned. Nor are they mentioned in the will of Columbus.

The islanders from Chios are known for their skill on the sea and for the number of sea-captains and ship owners from there. If Columbus was Greek, Chios is the most likely island he would be from."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_theories_of_Christopher_Columbus

http://www.greecetravel.com/history/columbus/

http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2168(194502)25%3A1%3C59%3ACCAGNA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6

[Undertaker #59]

Jeez, you are slow.

[SteelerFan87]

Thank you UndieTaker. Much appreciated. That was one I never heard before.
History Channel had a segment on that one night and I don't recall the Greek.
Some Italians do have Greek in them since Greeks colonized Italy before Rome.
My last name is Spanish ( which is my maiden name) but I am of Sicilian ancestry and I consider myself Italian. Southern Italy was conquered by Spain and was also a Cananiite stronghold and port as well as Greek at one point.

As for Colombus' education it was not uncommon for Jesuits to take children from families and educate them. The idea the earth was spherical was known by Greeks and in the ancient world and his navigation tools were available due to the Saracen Arabs, who got most of their knowledge from the Byzantine Empire.

Fixed your post. :thumb:

[bishbash]

post a few GD pics of some Icelandic bimbos and I will forgive you for this lame :noshit1:assed thread Mr. Girlie Pic Guru you:cuss:

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/93/artfantasy1nh6.jpg