The Ministry of Minor PerfidyThe courts have spoken 
Court rules lesbians are not just from Lesbos
Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:21pm EDT ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.
Three residents of Lesbos, the birthplace of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho whose love poems inspired the term lesbian, brought a case last month arguing the use of the term in reference to gay women insulted their identity.
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Related:
… Straight Lesbians Want Their Identity Back
… Also, a quote for which I cannot, for the life of me, find a link on the web, Cliff Clavin of Cheers referring to someone as being “…from the island of Lesbos”, which I remember thinking, at the time many years ago, was both hilarious and totally made up.
Well it probably SEEMED fierce if you were in the middle of it… 
The BBC reports “Fierce fighting in Somali capital”, a “battle” complete with
…heavy artillery fire in Mogadishu. Both sides claimed to have won the battle, fought with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, inflicting high casualties on the other.
Sounds serious. And it would continue to sound serious if you didn’t read the whole piece. One side says it killed 10 enemy fighters (likely exaggerated); the other side says it killed 21 (likely exaggerated). Another four hapless souls, noncombatants, were killed in the crossfire.
So this fierce battle with heavy artillery exchanges and high casualties actually yielded under 40 dead?
I’m not trying to come across as bloodthirsty here, but I think the BBC is overstating things a bit. By which I mean a lot. I don’t have a number of casualties in mind that, once reached, we’ve left “skirmish” and are into “battle”. But if you
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