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# Hod was a shmuck.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 15:40, archived)
# jared turner is lush
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 15:45, archived)
# I've never seen the show you're talking about.
Hod was blind and was tricked into killing his brother by Loki.

Loki: the original troll.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 15:48, archived)
# loki is, indeed, a cunt
but being of norse-type heritage, it interests me
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 15:51, archived)
# I like greek/roman/norse theology.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 15:53, archived)
# love the greek stuff
not so keen on the roman, for some reason
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 15:57, archived)
# It's pretty much the same stuff, just with greek names crossed out and roman ones penciled in.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 16:08, archived)
# it's essentially the same stories,
but all the meaning seems to have got lost somewhere, it's like a Tom Clancy rewrite of a Kurt Vonnegut. Personally I prefer the Babylonian/Sumerian stuff, that even the Greeks lifted from.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 16:12, archived)
# I've never looked at Babylonian or Sumerian.
Suggest a book and I'll give it a go, assuming I have time to buy it off amazon before I go home.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 16:26, archived)
#
www.amazon.co.uk/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 16:30, archived)
# This confused me because I thought it was already in my "to read" pile, before I realised that I was thinking of the Gormenghast Trilogy.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Tue 11 Dec 2012, 16:50, archived)