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[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. Long, long ago, in a galexy far away CATS were found keeping records of pastries and cookies eaten

Everyone laughed at them, until they smashed and burned all records of 9/11/2001. They heard about the Sibyls.

Ancient Roman prophecies
Cumæan Sibyl

The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the semi-legendary last king of the Roman Kingdom, or Tarquinius Priscus, is one of the famous mythic elements of Roman history.[2]

Centuries ago, concurrent with the 50th Olympiad not long before the expulsion of Rome's kings, an old woman "who was not a native of the country" (Dionysius) arrived incognita in Rome. She offered nine books of prophecies to King Tarquin; and as the king declined to purchase them, owing to the exorbitant price she demanded, she burned three and offered the remaining six to Tarquin at the same stiff price, which he again refused, whereupon she burned three more and repeated her offer. Tarquin then relented and purchased the last three at the full original price, whereupon she "disappeared from among men" (Dionysius).

The books were thereafter kept in the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, Rome, to be consulted only in emergencies. The temple burned down in the 80s BC, and the books with it, necessitating a re-collection of Sibylline prophecies from all parts of the empire (Tacitus 6.12). These were carefully sorted and those determined to be legitimate were saved in the rebuilt temple. The Emperor Augustus had them moved to the Temple of Apollo on the Palatine Hill, where they remained for most of the remaining Imperial Period.

The Cumaean Sibyl is featured in the works of, among others, Virgil (The Eclogues, The Æneid), Ovid (Metamorphoses) and Petronius (The Satyricon).

This image was painted by Michelangelo, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, in Rome.



Then, other unappreciated Community Action Tactical Specialists (CATS) began to do exactly the same thing to records acquired on that date only.

Most REAL C.A.T.S. ignore ALL silly, talking plastic and other sounds, while monitoring at least 5 local radio stations, including P.B.R. news and music, in their facilities.