more decoding . . .

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Rob Schaap

>I see things are so bad on the Dow just now that Yahoo is referring to
>telcos as 'a defensive oriented group' ...

. . . which abbreviates as d.o.g.

This just in from Tacitus:

"Now started the most terrible and destructive fire which Rome had ever
experienced. It began in the Circus, where it adjoins the Palatine and
Caelian hills. ...Fanned by the wind, the conflagration instantly grew and
swept the full length of the Circus. There were no walled mansions or
temples, or any other obstructions which could arrest it. First, the fire
swept violently over the level spaces. Then it climbed the hills--but
returned to ravage the lower ground again. It outstripped every counter
measure."

"Nero was in Antium. He only returned to the city when the fire was
approaching the mansion he had built to link the gardens of Maecenus to the
Palatine. ...A rumor had spread that, while the city was burning, Nero had
gone on his private stage and, comparing modern calamities with ancient, had
sung of the destruction of Troy."

Tom Walker
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