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    Gladiator: A member of a class of entertainers who received the first “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” from a crowd. One of the first state employees officially worked to death.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YesNo View Post
    Gladiator: A member of a class of entertainers who received the first “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” from a crowd. One of the first state employees officially worked to death.
    No, it's how the python felt about his blind date.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pompey Bum View Post
    No, it's how the python felt about his blind date.
    You're right. That's an alternate definition. You forgot to add a new word, so I'll add one.

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    Word: ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.

    Though some say: the bird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pompey Bum View Post
    Word: ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.

    Though some say: the bird.
    After putting it in Google Translate, it's still Greek to me, especially the part about Scotland:

    the Word , and the Word was with God , and God was the Word . Utu not in archῇ ​​to God . everything through him was made , without it was done neither in . The gegonen aftῷ life in her, and the life was the light of the people ; and the light in tῇ skotiᾳ seen, and Scotland this th overtaken

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    The state of freedom conferred on slaves in which they are free to be persecuted, abused and murdered because they no longer have any value as property.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendragon View Post
    Leader: One pompous enough to imagine that he or she can make blanket decisions that will please everyone and settle all problems

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    Follower: A kind of sheep.

    Romance: Whatever a woman says you aren't giving her.

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