What kind of ice cream do you have with acorn cake?
Any kind, but I prefer mint chocolate chip. ::
I see you changed your signature, what's it mean?
Once upon a time in ancient Greece (I forget the exact date, but I'm sure it was before last Tuesday), King Leonidas led a regiment of 300 Spartan warriors, accompanied by a few thousand allies, to meet an invading army of 200,000 Persian soldiers led by King Xerxes at the pass of Thermopylae. Seeing the Spartans were greatly outnumbered, Xerxes gave King Leonidas and his men the opportunity to lay down their weapons.
Leonidas replied "
Molon Labe" (MO-lon LAH-bay), which means "Come and get them!" The Persians attacked, and the Spartan warriors at the head of the formation proceeded to slice them to ribbons. After a day of fighting, the allies accompanying the 300 Spartans decided that, facing an army of 200,000 Persians, the situation was hopeless and they retreated. But every Spartan soldier was committed to holding their ground and fighting to the last man.
Another Greek (not a Spartan), for a price, betrayed his countrymen and led the Persians through a hidden passage to a point where they could now attack the Spartans from the rear. With a high cliff on one side and a deep chasm on the other, the Spartans continued the fight for three days, slaughtering wave after wave of Persian soldiers as they attacked simultaneously from both the front and the rear. The Spartans lost men in the process, but they piled up the bodies of their enemy to the tune of some 20,000. The pass was littered with corpses.
With their shields, helmets, and spears finally broken and useless, they continued to fight with their fists, feet, claws, and teeth.
On the third day, with their numbers dwindling and no armor left to protect them, Xerxes decided to shower them with arrows until none were left standing. The last of the 300 Spartans finally fell after three days of vicious fighting, but they had taken down many times their number of the enemy first.