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April 4, 2012 By 11 Comments

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  • Tominellay

    …smiling…pretty smart humor…

  • Frank Weathers

    Heh! Excellent.

  • http://www.chesterton.org Sean P. Dailey

    One of my roomates in college had an Impala. We called it the Impaler.

  • Dan

    Aargh. Coffee on the monitor again. That poor lizard needs another bath.

  • Kelly Franklin

    There’s something infinitely fitting, I think, as you’ve mentioned before, about these devastatingly evil men living on in a legacy not of fear but of mockery.

  • http://www.chesterton.org Sean P. Dailey

    Vlad the Impaler “devastatingly evil”? That’s highly unfair. Vlad Dracule was a brutal man, but he also was a heroic defender of Europe against the advances of the Ottoman Turks, and is venerated as a saint by some Orthodox Christians for confronting the Islamic threat to Christian Europe. In 1456, he assisted Janos Hunyadi and St. John of Capistrano in lifting the siege of Belgrade, routing the Muslim Turks and halting the further advance of Islam into Europe.

    Pope Callixtus III made the Feast of the Transfiguration a universal feast in commemoration of this victory. Maybe you could offer some prayers for Vlad’s soul rather than dismissing him as devastatingly evil.

    Read more here:
    http://catholicism.about.com/b/2011/08/06/the-feast-of-the-transfiguration.htm

  • Kelly Franklin

    Thanks Sean. No offense meant by my historical ignorance. :) In fact, I frequently pray for the souls of the gravely evil, of which historical club, as you say, it seems Vlad might not be a member.

    • http://www.chesterton.org Sean P. Dailey

      LOL Kelly, okay, thanks. :)

  • Clare Krishan

    ditto Sean P. Dailey – hubby’s family hailed from the Transylvania haunts of Dracula so we’re familiar with the bounder redounding of myth! Linguistically a most fruitful area: Byzantium’s melding of romance, slavic and semitic languages left marks we can trace back in time. Vladimir is a saintly patronym, a form of tuetonic Waldemar (Waldo) which is related to “admiral” ( c.1200, “Saracen commander,” from O.Fr. amirail (12c.) “Saracen military commander; any military commander,” probably ultimately from Arabic title amir-ar-rahl “chief of the transport,” officer in the Mediterranean fleet, from amir “leader;” Italian form almiraglio, Sp. almirante are from confusion with Arabic words in al-. see Online Etymology) as in “United Arab Emirates.” Before Victorian-Gothic gained prominence in our imaginations, the Dracul family had notably Christian evangelical origins, taking St. George as their patron saint
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Dragon

  • Loretta

    LOL. So clever. Almost as good as the pickup truck I once saw with plate “Thalone.” It was a Ford. Go figure it out. Thanks, Mark, you made my day.

  • http://www.symmetry-us.com/forum/topic.php?id=20936&replies=1 Marge Governale

    Check out both versions of the track below: