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 Duskweaver wrote:
Did you know pease pudding was originally a Roman dish?

They created a dessert and called it peas.


that made me groan so hard, Augustus heard it.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

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 Duskweaver wrote:
Did you know pease pudding was originally a Roman dish?

They created a dessert and called it peas.


Oh no, my ignorance is showing, as this one went straight over my head.

   
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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
 Duskweaver wrote:
Did you know pease pudding was originally a Roman dish?

They created a dessert and called it peas.


Oh no, my ignorance is showing, as this one went straight over my head.


its a quote traditionally attributed to a scotish warlord (ok, pictish, in the area of what is now scotland) talking to his troops before a battle in which most die.

"(the romans are) Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them.

Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a Desert, and call it peace"

as far we know, this is something made up by the romans themselves, but its still a killer line....and the basis of that pun.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

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xerxeskingofking wrote:
 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
 Duskweaver wrote:
Did you know pease pudding was originally a Roman dish?

They created a dessert and called it peas.


Oh no, my ignorance is showing, as this one went straight over my head.


its a quote traditionally attributed to a scotish warlord (ok, pictish, in the area of what is now scotland) talking to his troops before a battle in which most die.

"(the romans are) Robbers of the world, having by their universal plunder exhausted the land, they rifle the deep. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if he be poor, they lust for dominion; neither the east nor the west has been able to satisfy them.

Alone among men they covet with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a Desert, and call it peace"

as far we know, this is something made up by the romans themselves, but its still a killer line....and the basis of that pun.



Calgacus from Tacitus' Argicola, technically not Pictish either. The Picts are an amalgamation of tribes that formed in 6th - 7th century AD, which is 500 - 600 years later than the campaign described in his writing. Calgacus is merely a Briton from one of the northern tribes (Caledonii). It is almost 100% bollocks and made up, but it's a damn good line all the same. And therefore an even better joke.


Do you want a genuine Roman joke from Macrobius' Saturnalia?

A provincial man arrives in Rome. As he walked the streets, he drew the eyes of the entire city, being a real double of the emperor Augustus.
The emperor, having brought him to the palace, looks him up and down and says "Tell me, young man, did your mother come to Rome anytime?"
The provincial replies, "She was never blessed with coming to this great city. But my father frequently enjoyed visiting."


PS: @xerxes, I was hopefully going for helpful addition and not know it all prick with this reply

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It is a shame their are so few images of Mount Rushmore before they carved it.

I'm told its beauty was....unprecedented.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

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