MolonLabe means "Come and Take Them" When the greek leader of some sort Leonidas was hole up in some mountain fort or other, the baddies told him to surrender his weapons, and he said "Molon Labe"

Yeah, i'm geek, wanna make something of it?
:)

It's an error. The money should have gone to me. I will happily help you correct the error.

Yes. Apparently a lot of companies charged customers too much for CDs in the late nineties.
A class-action lawsuit was filed against them,
the lawsuit was won, and for a short time, anyone who bought CDs during the years it had been going on, could sign up on a website online to receive some of the settlement money.

This is why

Yeah, I got the same check. It's the result of a class-action lawsuit filed by some states AG's due to overpricing of CD's back in the 90's.

Frank,

This is a good Molon Labe description:

http://www.thefiringline.com/HCI/molon_labe.htm

I thought "Molon Labe" means "fuck you and the army you brought with you!"

I thought "Molon Labe" means "fuck you and the army you brought with you!"

think Charelton Heston..........

"From my COLD, DEAD HAND"

DON'T CASH THAT CHECK!

Unless, of course, you want to change your long distance phone carrier.

It may also be a ploy from the folks at CBC (Canadian Broadcast Company) to get you to subscribe to their cable service (think: Molson Hockey Night in Canada EVERY NIGHT).

BTW: What does $13.86 equate to in Canadian dollars? About $10,000?

This is from Hoystory.com. right wing blog

CD settlement: I was one of the thousands upon thousands of people who registered to get back a pittance from the music companies for sticking it to consumers with artificially high CD prices. My take: $13.86.

Will check out the NavMonkey...I currently have a Canadian host for my website and i am unhappy with the service...I'm not Canadian but thought "what the heck i'll try it" now I just think "what the heck?"

It's your check for the trial lawyer's yacht.

You mean that CD thing was for real?

If that's the case, I'd better send that Nigerian dude my life savings before it's too late, and miss out on a share of $ 200,000,000 as well.

I got the same check!!

Woo Hoo, I'm gonna blow in on booze and cigars

I didn't pay anything near $20 a month for my site. Then again, I coded my own site and it shows. Oh well, that'll all be fixed shortly. Still don't plan on paying that much for a site.
As a corollary, the benfit of coding my own blog is that I've consistently been the highest ranking blog using my service!

I've actually gotten about 4 or 5 checks like these over the past eight years. The highest was only for like $6, so sounds like you really cleaned up. BTW, I've never signed up for a class action suit, they just find me and mail me a check, so I won't complain.

leonidas was a king of sparta. he and his troops (about 300) were holding off xerxes' whole army at a pass (it was an open field otherwise). xerxes told leonidas and his men to lay down their arms, leonidas responded, "come and take them." leonidas and all his men were subsequently slaughtered, but made it a costly victory for xerxes and gave the rest of greece much needed time to regroup/dig in.

The same check came for me too, and mine is endorsed by the Attorney General of Illinois so I think it's real.

I might have to check out NavMonkey.net. Your ad says only $20 per year, and it would get me off blogspot. Would pics be included in the deal too?

Also, here's a couple more bits of classical civ. trivia from the same battle. First before the battle, the king of Persia took note that the Spartans were doing their hair, bathing, and such: in modern lingo, getting pimped out. The king made the remark they wouldn't fight, but a military advisor who had fought the Spartans before informed him it meant they were preparing to die. Second, after being told that the Persian arrows were so numberous that they would block out the sun, the Spartan king Leonidas replied, "All the better, we'll fight in the shade."

Moral of the story, the Spartans were hard*sses.

The battle with Leonidas and Xerxes was at Thermopylae in the Second Persian War in 480 BC. 300 Spartans vs. 800,000 Persians (with some exaggeration by the ancient historians).
The epitaph of the Spartans: Go and tell the Spartans, passerby, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

So.. Spartans were almost as cool as America.

Where are you getting this information, anyways? I haven't seen those stories, but I think I'd like to, if you have references off the top of your head

Back in the good old days when they actually taught you things in public schools; we all heard stories like that.

Plutarch's Lives

Apophthegmata Laconica [Sp.?] (208b-242d) {0007.082}
Gnom., Phil.
W. Nachstädt, Plutarchi moralia, vol. 2.1. Leipzig: Teubner, 1935 (repr. 1971): 110-165, 167-224.

Herodotus, "The Histories" in either book 7 or 8

Cicero, "Tusculanae Disputationes"

I remember stumbling across the epitaph at some point in my readings, but I don't remember any of the other details. Thanks for the references, time to go read some more.

herodotus tells the story, have a read

plutarch, as i should have specified with the reference above, gives us the phrase "molon labe" in his Lives: Apophthegmata Laconica

Пάλιν δὲ τοῦ Ξέρξου γράψαντος 'πέμψον τὰ ὅπλα' ἀντέγραψε 'μολὼν λαβέ.' (to xerxes saying, "hand over your arms," [leonidas] answered back, "come and get them.")

the last two words are what king leonidas responded to xerxes' demand to "hand over your arms"

sorry i can't find a translation of plutarch for you, but herodotus is more interesting, anyhow

I believe I first heard of the lawsuit in the Wallstreet Journal, though it may have been another paper. There certainly _was_ a real lawsuit filed. Whether your check's from that one or not, I can't say.

Frank, you have sold out; and to monkeys no less. Could the end of the world be near?

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