[Ads-l] triumvirate

[Jonathan Lighter]

But nobody is Spartacus.

JL

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

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> > On Feb 3, 2016, at 7:44 AM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at NETSCAPE.COM> =
> wrote:
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> > On our local public radio station (WHYY) yesterday afternoon:
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> > "...the triumvirate of, or as I prefer to call it, the Cruz, Trump, =
> and Rubio of..."
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> > - Jim Landau
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> The question is which one is Caesar, which one is Pompey, and especially =
> which one is Crassus.  I guess maybe we'll learn the latter after New =
> Hampshire.
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> LH
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