Fair enough... Although once you start up that road, it's hard to know where to stop. I suppose that I could show a quacking duck to someone and have them say "It's a chicken!" to use my own axoim...

But having said that, it kinda reminds me of the whole Monty Python scene from Life of Brian, when Reg asks a rhetorical question and it degenerates into a comprehensive list of everything the Romans did well...

Reg: They've bled us white, the b*stards. They've taken everything we had, not just from us, from our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.

Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.

Reg: Yes.

Stan: And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.

Reg: All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?



<later>....

Reg: All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?

Xerxes: Brought peace!

Reg: (very angry, he's not having a good meeting at all) What!? Oh... (scornfully) Peace, yes... shut up!