Gratuitous reference to Alexander

[marcus]

Courtesy of Rogueclassicism, an article in a California newspaper about an outbreak of West Nile Virus. It contains (near the end) an excellent, if gratuitous, reference to Alexander:http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories ... mlAnything to make their stories more interesting!Marcus

[amyntoros]

I think gratuitous references will be coming up out of the woodwork for a while till everyone has forgotten the movie. An automatic search engine sent me this one this morning, which is about darts, of all things!http://sport.guardian.co.uk/columnists/ ... 00.htmlCan Alexander be great if his darting was rubbish? Martin Kelner
Monday January 24, 2005
The Guardian Pyke eschewed Gwynne's Spinal Tap turn-the-amp-up-to-11 approach, instead deferring to Mr Darts, picking up on his images and covering the gaps while Sid dreamt up another reference to the Trojan Wars or long-gone Sunderland footballers. "If Alexander the Great had had to play Taylor halfway to India he'd have turned back and settled for half of Macedonia," said Waddell. "I thought Macedonia won the Eurovision Song Contest, Sid," prompted Pyke and, when the main man failed to deliver anything in the way of a punch line, added: "Er, well, they're all singing from the Taylor song sheet tonight here in Stoke." Does anyone know of an emoticon that represents a completely dumbfounded expression?:-)Linda Ann

[marcus]

Yep, that beat me - I didn't understand a word of that!Marcus