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You point out the 'silly' con remark but you do much worst, actually comparing a mere successful business guy with a whole civilization.

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...It's a Monty Python reference. The point is that someone has enumerated a list of fairly substantial things and then, quite absurdly, discards them.

http://www.epicure.demon.co.uk/whattheromans.html

I know perfectly where it comes from, I have access to google too, and the quotes remarked perfectly that the quote was not yours. I was replying to your intention, not to the literal text.

EDIT: this reply actually looks more personal than I wanted it to be, and given your clarification, have my apologies...

So it's your thinking that my intention was to compare Steve Jobs to the Roman Empire (an apple to an elephant), and it was not my intention to compare OP's remark to absurdist writing in The Life of Brian (a piece of writing to a piece of writing)?

Well. Okay then.

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