How now, Tamerlane?

Ah, "Timur the Lame"

Some might think basing the topic of the day on the Peterman
catalogue a little cheesy, but anything is better than months of reruns at this
point. The intro has always been just a springboard for the day's conversation
anyway.

Much that has come out of Central Asia has influenced the West
more than many realize; Plague being one of those things.

If he were alive today, no doubt he would be zapped with a drone.

I'm feeling far too lazy to Google What's his name so I can pretend to know something about him. Somebody, if Scottie beamed him back to present times, should tell him that conquering is out of fashion. So, come the think of it, is conkering. Elfin Safe Tea have decreed that conkers shall not be played in school playgrounds, lest the little darlings sustain minor injuries.

If he were alive today he would, a) be very, very old and b) would have invented someting like Post-it Notes or velcro.

Or perhaps be like Dr. Evil and have all sorts of plans of world domination from his secret island lair, complete with shark tank.

You've gotta give him A+ for effort....

I have nothing relevant to say about Tamerlane the man... But I SOOO want the coat.  I've been trying to talk the hubby into it for what seems like FOREVER.  I hope they still have it at Christmas (and in my size) and then it will go on the Christmas list.

I hope everyone has a great day!

I read a novel about Ghengis Khan's sons early this spring. Can't remember the name but it was a very enjoyable read. 60% of people from that part of the world carry his genes. If you have ever met anyone with lovely golden eyes (lion eyes) they most likely are decended from Ghengis!!!
Love the name Tamberlane and think the coat is gorgeous but what I would really like most is to go to Mongolia and ride that horse Bush's VP put out to pasture!!!

Tamerlane

The coat is lovely, but, being short, full-length garments make me look like a gnome in a trench.

I am tickled that Mr. Peterman's opening remarks, his gambit, draws us back to his first cause, his reason for being, his motive force, his owner's manual.  I am not sucking up for another ribbon.  I have ribbons aplenty.  I like the short but powerful introductions that again have the robust flare of J Peterman .But I must say, if that is a true representation of Tamerlane, he is one of the sorriest world conquistadors that I have ever seen.  He looks like a cross between Abbott, Costello and the Bush family.  Who would run from that?

My dogs.............

Well. I just uploaded a forensic reconstruction of the face
of Tamerlane, whose reign influences us to this very day.

Apparently his body was exhumed in 1941 by the Russian
scientist Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov and the forensic reconstruction made.
I believe he also did a reconstruction of the face of Ivan the terrible.

Paolos, agreed.

Perhaps Tamerlane would be a stock broker, a mortgage banker or a power on Wall Street.  That's the locus of power in this era.  And yes, it is a great coat.

I do believe that all the beatings he took as a result of wearing those over-the-top hats in the tougher neighborhoods of his youth shaped him into the ruthless conqueror he became.

He was indeed a stlylin', profilin', man of the steppes......

What do I think? I think the coat is sharper than the visage of said Tamerlane, and that EA Poe wrote much better "pomes" later on....It was said he was 17 when he composed this romantic saga of over 400 lines, as a tribute to a conqueror who left his true love and lived to regret it on his deathbed.....How trite! Happens all the time! But not that coat....Anyone wearing that to an NFL game will be noticed.

Rather, I'd suggest that coat for an art gallery opening. It is a conversation starter. Not for me....I am more LLBean or Lands End or Cabala jackets in white. So boring....but practical.

Not much to say about shortsighted conquerors today. Going to take the grandchild home to the city. May re read Tamerlane and other poems later.

MISS HAZEL:  That might indeed give a whole new meaning to the Term, "Trench Warfare"
 
 
Genghis Khan was regarded with great trepidation by so many people, and idolized by Tamerlane ... and the Great Khan's repute completely overshadowed his Cousin Fungus ... Largely because hardly anyone could ever take him seriously ... not only because he bought his clothes in a ReSale Shoppe in the Bazaar ... but he rode Side-Saddle ....... He was, years later, idolized and emulated by Richard III ... but then, Go Figure !!!

Oh sure, but how many of YOU have a street named after you? (Well, besides Peter Lake...) There is a Tamer Lane, and. A Tamer Lane ct.

Park Street? 4 Park Street?

He's the face in all of my bad dreams.

For someone so vicious he looks like a mamby-pamby.  No explaining that.
 
Ginger, have tried to figure another way to contact you to no avail so will use this for now.  In answer to your friesian question: my friends do not give recomemdations of sellers to someone they do no know but suggested you google "friesians in Virginia" and see where it leads.  Best help I can give .

I was conquered on SwissAir by Toberlone years ago. I like mixing patterns. Buying clothes to look like a mall mannequin is boring. So how's that imperial nation building working out, Barbarian?

I am still trying to figure out what a tilyakosh is. Several dictionaries, including the O.E.D., don't have it. Long work, but would work wonders in scrabble.

I put tilyakosh into my search engine and it say it's a type of a dance crown originally worn as a part of a bridal trouseau.

That illustration is, unfortunately, his good side. He's looks like death on a cracker. Has a certain devil-may-care zombie look about him. That is a heckava stash he is sporting......probably helped with balance.

I’VE SEEN THAT FACE BEFORE, I KNOW I HAVE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4vDcx2V0PA

Here's what I found on my search:  The tilyakosh or "golden eyebrows" is a tiara with delicate hanging pendants, which follow the curved line of the brow.

I really shouldn't do this but since my hopes for another ribbon or medal of honor are already shot...I put Tilyakosh in my anagram descrambler and came up with a variant of "excremental yak oil."

Peter Lake you are on a roll you have made me laugh out loud twice today.

A bit different from sacremental, excremental yak oil which would be Holy shit, Yakoil!

I'm done.

Tomorrow Hsi Kai?

that's ok paolos, I got anal meter and renal meat.......

that coat has my name on it.

Miss Blue, you should see a Doctor about all that or maybe your Butcher.

MISS RUSTY:  Its the Jet-Puff'd Hat ... and the little Bells on the ends of his toes .......

That's it for sure, Ivan, the bells were just too much.  I was thinking about Mr. P's question at the end of his comments.  Conquer next?: Not a woman's heat that I can imagine.

After I finished laughing right out loud that's exactly what I thought!!
Park4 don't let him conquer you or your dreams!!

Perhaps he'd have his own talk show, he would need a
faithful sidekick and a hermetically sealed jar of mayonnaise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Pvoz_Gr-k

Nachista, ..... Then I had a good day!

Since he seems to really like his uniforms, i can see him as a "Good Humor Ice Cream Truck Driver, (the bells would attract him too), a doorman at a fine hotel, an in-the-stands hot dog vendor at Wrigley, or perhaps a WallMart greeter!

With his resume, the world is his oyster!

With that get-up, you could put a bowling ball in front of him and he could tell fortunes.

But seriously, i bet the 27 kingdoms he conquered were on the puny side.

I love the coat, and with my dance art, it is a perfect addition!! Sorry I did not win the wardrobe make-over, all my students would flip over it!! They may even buy it too.

Hey Pete, I'm the one who tells fortunes :)

Peter Lake- He  would have invented velcro with soikes or sticky notes that left lethal cuts.  His bio said he was ruthless. 

Peter Lake- He  would have invented velcro with soikes or sticky notes that left lethal cuts.  His bio said he was ruthless. 

How big is a kingdom?  Is it bigger than Texas or smaller than Rhode Island?  The size of an NYC outer bourugh or the length of a Seattle subway stop?

Julia~  How Long  is a Chinese name?

Tamerlane is a lame subject (although, Marjorie, I have to agree the coat says "divine" all by itself).
 
I'd rather talk Charlemagne--now THERE is someone with whom I would not to care to match wits.  This poor fellow looks as though he has none...which fits most bullies (i.e., most conquerers).  Take, for example, Vlad the Implaler.  What a waste of time and good wood!  Besides, didn't Tamerlane inspire the wirling dervishes of legend...or was that some other poor dim-wit.
 
Now Genghis Khan...wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley.  But Kublai Khan was quite enlightened, if anyone cares to read up on him.  There really was a "Xanadu" although it was called Shandhu (I believe) and was Kublia's summer palace.  I was reputed to be resplendent with many artisans supported there by the Khan to ply their trade and provide the palace with many great works of art (most of which, including the palace) did not survive the great sands of time.  What a shame.  The enlightened ones never are heard about but the bad boys always get the press!

Er, make the WHIRLING!  Geez, I gotta start doing this in Word first, spell check, then put it up!