What do you think when you hear the....

[Chance1234]

What do you think when you hear the word Barbarian ?

Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[SantaMufasa]

Conan.

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[edfair]

The hoard attacking as depicted in the Capital One credit card ads.

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[r937]

crush your enemies
see them driven before you
hear the lamentations of their women

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[SantaMufasa]

BTW, Chance, why are you asking?

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[Chance1234]

re thread1256-1356499 . I am writing some ramblings for my website and in my first draft I have used all the correct tribal/settlement/cultural/etc names , which has probably added about 200 odd words of waffle to the article as unless you know them its going to mean very little.

So Im thinking of using the word Barbarian/s instead as its not essential to the article you know where they are from.

However, in the introduction i am thinking of putting a explanation of why I'm using the word barbarians, depending on the replies here really.



Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous

 

[chiph]

Nabisco.


(Barbarians at the Gate, excellent movie)

Chip H.


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[sbrews]

Thundar

... too obscure?

 

[sleipnir214]

Wasn't Thundarr the Barbarian the one with "the Fabulous Sun Sword"?


I guess if I'm going to do word association, I'd have to say "Babar", as in "Babar the Elephant". I connected the two when I was a very small child. I had access to the Babar stories before I recall ever having heard the word "barbarian", so the first time I heard the word, I heard "babarian", and immediately thought that the word described someone who accepted Babar as his leader.



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[Thargy]

Pah,

I and I alone am qualified to answer this question.

My name says it all. Read and quiver with fear all ye city-dwelling runty beings, for I come to slay!

T

Grinding away at things Oracular

 

[gbaughma]

Thundar

... too obscure?

Nope. I remember it well.



Just my 2¢
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Who wanted to write a Haiku
but...

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[kjv1611]

Not civil.

--

"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[Lienori]

Conan, unfortunately. That said, some good did come of it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5023883452102038144

 

[KenCunningham]

Phil Bennett and Gareth Edwards.

Fee's gonna love me for ever for that!

I want to be good, is that not enough?

 

[sha76]

Weren't the Barbarians a specific tribe/race/etc themselves? Or am I getting confused?

"Your rock is eroding wrong." -Dogbert

 

[pinkgecko]

Weren't the Barbarians a specific tribe/race/etc themselves?

I thought it was a specific tribe, too. According to wikipedia though, the root word is barbar, which seems to have been the latin equivalent of blah blah. In other words, they're anyone but our own civilized selves .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian

My own concept of a barbarian though is a muscle bound brute in either a loincloth or skins, usually with an axe.

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[2ffat]

OK. Thundar I remember.

Nabisco.

As in NAtional BIScuit Company?????? Did I miss something somewhere???



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[philhege]

sbrews, since we've reached the critical mass of shared experience, nothing is obscure on Tek-Tips.

*except for <insert your favorite unanswered tech frustration here>*

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[Thadeus]

As in NAtional BIScuit Company?????? Did I miss something somewhere???

Yes the line beneath it that said:

(Barbarians at the Gate, excellent movie)

The full title of which is:
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

~Thadeus

 

[SantaMufasa]

Al-Qaeda.

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