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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Keith Twitchell, post: 2695713, member: 83799&quot;]Maybe Otho -- how many bad things can you do in three months?&nbsp; But why limit this to just the Roman leaders.&nbsp; There are some worthy candidates among the Greeks.&nbsp; But my personal favorite is Cnut, ruler of England in the early 11th century, who is famous for goading the royal court into proclaiming that he had the power to stop the tide from coming in.&nbsp; He then lined them all up at low tide, ordered the tide not to come in and ordered the court not to move until he said so.&nbsp; Right before they all drowned, he let them all retreat -- and then ordered them to stop flattering him all the time!&nbsp; I keep one of his coins on my desk as a reminder that we all have our limits.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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