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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-26-04 10:34 AM
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A new name for Bush* that I thought of (try this on your friends)
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"Dimitry"

I learned all about this man named Dimitry of Uglich in my Russian History class last year. Here's his story:

Ivan the Terrible had seven wives throughout his life. At the time, the Russian Orthodox would recognize one's first marriage, and the second (his first wife died of illness), and usually the third. After that, they were pretty much considered illegitimate. Dimitry was a child of wife #7, so he was basically considered a total bastard. He was also epileptic, and at age nine, as the story goes, killed himself by accident while playing with a knife. However, rumors circulated that Ivan's chief adviser, who came to rule Russia after Ivan's death, "disappeared" Dimitry.

So while this adviser, named Boris Godunov was ruling Russia, people kept popping up claiming to be Dimitry, who was supposedly the rightful heir although he was really a bastard. Angry peasants latched on to these men (there were two of them) and used them as leaders for pre-existing uprisings.

So let's see... men pretending to be someone they weren't (like Bush* is pretending to be Prez), who was really someone who shouldn't have ruled the country under any circumstances, got lots of angry followers to tear up the countryside. If Bush* lived in 16th century Russia, I could see him claiming to be this Dimitry guy.
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