The stars are right...

[KitsuneGirl]

Who knew Columbus was Cthulhu!!

Who knew!!

Also: Technically, Italians are not "white", they are olive-skinned.

[Hoppa_Joel]

It celebrates , the Columbus day storm (in Oregon)

No kiddin!
I am practically drowning here from rain :P

[PoetnSage]

I feel the pain he can no longer feel. I have the joy he has forgotten. All Hail the mighty Zombie Columbus and understand him not.

Happy Columbus Day!

[Chrysoprase]

Does ZC still have that ridiculous hat? I've always been jealous of that hat. Can we get one in-game in honor of him?

[Griffy]

I agree with an earlier poser though

Eh.. In game would be pretty lore violating...but how about some lotteries?

Indeedy... I'd say:
Brains x 100
(Oh shoot, we don't have those in game? How about brans, oh no, here we go, Grains...)

Graaaaaainnnssss...

[Gwailion]

Can we NOT do this in an otherwise fun thread?

Seems fine to me, since this thread is in itself pointless and useless and serves to make me scroll an extra turn on the wheel to get to important information.

Sticky threads should be for important turbine/lotro/game information, not the folly of blue names that have the ability to stop their posts sinking to the second page of obscurity

[Mandli]

Columbus was dining with many Spanish nobles when one of them said: 'Sir Christopher, even if your lordship had not discovered the Indies, there would have been, here in Spain which is a country abundant with great men knowledgeable in cosmography and literature, one who would have started a similar adventure with the same result.' Columbus did not respond to these words but asked for a whole egg to be brought to him. He placed it on the table and said: 'My lords, I will lay a wager with any of you that you are unable to make this egg stand on its end like I will do without any kind of help or aid.' They all tried without success and when the egg returned to Columbus, he tapped it gently on the table breaking it slightly and, with this, the egg stood on its end. All those present were confounded and understood what he meant: that once the feat has been done, anyone knows how to do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

Whether he "discovered" anything or not, it was still an incredible, high level, real life quest that he was the very first to complete when few were willing to try or even believed was possible. It took a lot of guts and perseverance. He at least deserves credit for that, if for nothing else.

Happy Columbus day!

[Lohi]

Neither of those men discovered any of those places, as they had already been occupied by people for thousands of years.

Just over 30 years ago, I discovered Europe!

[Mandli]

Just over 30 years ago, I discovered Europe!

I discovered India one day in 1968.

[Lohi]

I discovered India one day in 1968.

Being born there doesn't count. You need to leave your home, discover someone else's home, then come back home and say "hey guys, there's more out there!"

[dadiro95]

Happy Colombus Day Turbine!
Hope you had a great day!

[PlunderBunny]

What faith in man must in our new world beat,
Thinking how once he saw before his face
The west and all the host of stars retreat
Into the silent infinite of space!

~George Edward Woodberry

[PlunderBunny]

And for people who are not Oregonians.

"The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 (otherwise known as the Big Blow, which began as Typhoon Freda) was an extratropical cyclone that ranked among the most intense to strike the United States Pacific Northwest since at least 1948, likely since the January 9, 1880 "Great Gale" and snowstorm. On a larger scale, the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 is a contender for the title of most powerful extratropical cyclone recorded in the U.S. in the 20th century; with respect to wind velocity, it is unmatched by the March 1993 "Storm of the Century" and the "1991 Halloween Nor’easter" (aka "The Perfect Storm")."

[Laire]

Hehehe! Happy Columbus Day, ZC :P

... *mutters about university not celebrating it properly*

[Amagaim]

Yup. Good ol' Zombie Colombus...

Zombie Yuri Gagarin still kicks his ###, though.

[TrainedTurtle]

I see Amerigo mentioned but not Leif Erikson?

I already sat through my husband's Columbus rant so I will refrain myself.

[Sylux14]

It is not Cthulhu within R'lyeh, but Zombie Columbus.



Chuck Norris once tried to punch Zombie Columbus. Chuck Norris checked into the hospital the next day with a broken hand.

[Hitomo]

[Vardiel]

Brains.....

Grains.... (for vegetarian zombies).

Happy Columbus day to all.

[Mandli]

Being born there doesn't count. You need to leave your home, discover someone else's home, then come back home and say "hey guys, there's more out there!"

I was born and raised in Florida.

[Dorothir]

There's a Columbus day?

Well, as one poster has said earlier, he did have a flag so that means he discovered it. No flag, no country...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8

[Braethor]

Grains.... (for vegetarian zombies).

lol +1 from my vegan friends.

[Arrabell]

lol. I felt like I was reading a George R.R. Martin book just now.

Happy Zombie Columbus Day! There should really be an in-game event for this. ZC wandering the Barrow Downs (and other dead areas) or something, dropping goodies if a fellowship can take him down. Like the old Amarthiel events.

What a great idea!

[Rippentuck]

Neither of those men discovered any of those places, as they had already been occupied by people for thousands of years. They are credited for "discovering" those places because they are white, and apparently it didn't "count" until then because according tot he history books something done is only worth anything if it was done by a white man. While I understand ZC's post, this day really doesn't celebrate anything, at all.

Something like this happens every Columbus Day in the ZC post. If it's not someone myopically trying to claim that Columbus and the Europeans were the only ones to cause death in other cultures, then it's someone with a modern chip on their shoulder using Columbus to spew bad history and unfounded rhetoric about whatever their own gripe is.

I don't think you understand the context of Columbus' "discovery." It's called a "discovery" because his voyage was and is credited (rightfully or not) with bringing news of new lands to the European continent. Really, that's all it was. It had nothing to do with him being a "white man" then, and it has nothing to do with that now.


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