A rousing rendition of the Battle of Tours. Yes, Tours. "Battle of Potiers"? Pshaw! Everyone that was there knows that it took place just south of Tours. Just ask BIAD and that grizzly old sidekick and time-travel companion of his.
Personally, I believe it was the raid on the plunder caravan that decided the battle. Plunderers tend to realign their priorities when their plunder is being plundered. Of course, Charles Martel already knew that, which is why he sent the raiders for the caravan in the first place. Nothing like stealing their shit while they're otherwise occupied in trying to bash your skull in to get a raider's attention! Makes 'em wonder what the real distraction is - the raid or the battle - but they know where their priorities fall!
But you realize that none of the raiders that took the Muslims' shit ever gave it back to the folks it was originally plundered from, right? There is an old axiom in war and plundering - "to the victor go the spoils". The guys that raided the baggage train and plunder caravan were just the most recent in the line of victors, so that crap became theirs.
It was disheartening to discover that Taylor Swift is a relative. That bummed me out a bit, but you know what they say - you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. See, I'm the 40th great grandson of Charles Martel.
When I channeled gramps to tell him about this, he was pretty disappointed, too. He blamed it on the Italian branch of the family, and muttered something about Mussolini. According to gramps, when folks do you dirt, you get off your ass and DO something about it. He allowed as how writing pitiful whiny songs about past exes seeking sympathy instead of actual retribution did not amount to "DOING something" about it. Lopping off heads counts, but not prancing around whining.
I'm reliably informed that gramps has disinherited Ms. Swift from the will. He says she'a already gotten enough cash from millions of other whiners, and asked me how I can stand to live in the modern world of whinery.
Fun with maths. "40th great grandson" puts me at 45 generations from Charles Martel, counting both his generation and mine in that total. In Martel's time, the entire world population was about 230 million people. in that generation back from me, I have 35,184,372,088,832 ancestors That's over 35 TRILLION with a "T" ancestors, just in that generation - every generation doubles the number in it, and you know that old thing about a single penny doubled for 30 days... What that means is that for every single person on Earth at that time, I have 157,545 ancestors. That's a lot of overlapping and merging branches on the family tree that far back. It's even more overloaded when you consider that in my case, Asians, Australian Aborigines, Siberians, etc don't count, because they aren't in my family tree. It's mostly western Europeans, American Indians, and one thin branch of Africans in Nigeria that populate it. So, yeah, that figure for how many times each ancestor has to appear in my family tree at that date should probably be increased by about a factor of 4 at least.
S'ok, though. Taylor Swift's family tree is just as twisted up as mine that far back. We're even.
But she still has more money until the inheritance from Gramps comes in. I'm expecting 45 generations of interest to come with it.
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Personally, I believe it was the raid on the plunder caravan that decided the battle. Plunderers tend to realign their priorities when their plunder is being plundered. Of course, Charles Martel already knew that, which is why he sent the raiders for the caravan in the first place. Nothing like stealing their shit while they're otherwise occupied in trying to bash your skull in to get a raider's attention! Makes 'em wonder what the real distraction is - the raid or the battle - but they know where their priorities fall!
But you realize that none of the raiders that took the Muslims' shit ever gave it back to the folks it was originally plundered from, right? There is an old axiom in war and plundering - "to the victor go the spoils". The guys that raided the baggage train and plunder caravan were just the most recent in the line of victors, so that crap became theirs.
It was disheartening to discover that Taylor Swift is a relative. That bummed me out a bit, but you know what they say - you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. See, I'm the 40th great grandson of Charles Martel.
When I channeled gramps to tell him about this, he was pretty disappointed, too. He blamed it on the Italian branch of the family, and muttered something about Mussolini. According to gramps, when folks do you dirt, you get off your ass and DO something about it. He allowed as how writing pitiful whiny songs about past exes seeking sympathy instead of actual retribution did not amount to "DOING something" about it. Lopping off heads counts, but not prancing around whining.
I'm reliably informed that gramps has disinherited Ms. Swift from the will. He says she'a already gotten enough cash from millions of other whiners, and asked me how I can stand to live in the modern world of whinery.
Fun with maths. "40th great grandson" puts me at 45 generations from Charles Martel, counting both his generation and mine in that total. In Martel's time, the entire world population was about 230 million people. in that generation back from me, I have 35,184,372,088,832 ancestors That's over 35 TRILLION with a "T" ancestors, just in that generation - every generation doubles the number in it, and you know that old thing about a single penny doubled for 30 days... What that means is that for every single person on Earth at that time, I have 157,545 ancestors. That's a lot of overlapping and merging branches on the family tree that far back. It's even more overloaded when you consider that in my case, Asians, Australian Aborigines, Siberians, etc don't count, because they aren't in my family tree. It's mostly western Europeans, American Indians, and one thin branch of Africans in Nigeria that populate it. So, yeah, that figure for how many times each ancestor has to appear in my family tree at that date should probably be increased by about a factor of 4 at least.
S'ok, though. Taylor Swift's family tree is just as twisted up as mine that far back. We're even.
But she still has more money until the inheritance from Gramps comes in. I'm expecting 45 generations of interest to come with it.
.