>Some of y'all is <BR>>like them people that said that <BR>>griots weren't historians cause they didn't <BR>>write shit down. <P>hey...i know this is off topic...but that whole concept is pretty fuckin cool to me. i read the Sundiata this past spring, and found out about griots and their role in retaining history...and you make a good point, because not everything can be measured conventionally, the stories the griots retained were not written down partly because they felt that did not give justice to the story itself....interesting stuff, u took me back.<P><BR>Dougal James McFeely<BR>aka Young Dashing Captain Kangaroo<BR>aka Gorton's Fisherman<BR>aka Hacksaw Jim Duggins<BR>aka Tripp Thorr McFeely, Esq.<P><BR>"In reference to my rebellion, I just wanna clarify that I am really only rebelling over the fact that the bars all close at 2am and don't open 'till 11am in the morning. That makes me realy mad."--Nou Ra<P>"Just like if you meet Hak, you know he has a Chocolate Martini. That's what we ID him with. Just like we ID Ahmir with his afro."--Improv<P><BR>"She's got a butter face....nice body, butter face"--Smitty<P><BR>AIM user name:Bandulu<P><a href="http://www.h8r.com" target="_blank">http://www.h8r.com<;/a>