If ancient Rome had the Internet...

Poststructural Pub
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[u]If ancient Rome had the Internet…[/u]

Heh. I like this one:

The volume of spam collapses when the penalty for not providing a working opt-out mechanism becomes equal billing with the lions at the eBay Colosseum.

:slight_smile:

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Classical geeks wear t-shirts proclaiming, “there’s no place like CXXVII.0.0.I” (bonus points if you get that one)

No! Don’t encourage them with bonus points. It’s just incredibly sad if you get that. It’s a bad nerd joke made even nerdier by translating it into roman numerals. The only way it could be worse is if you made it into binary, or perhaps klingon.



I got it. :cry:

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Yeah, I got it too, I’m afraid. :cry: :cry:

(If only it were funny!)

And if the Ancient Celts/Gauls had the internet, it would have been full of forums (or maybe, marketplaces) where people would be arguing whether the Roman Empire was a threat or not.

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Don’t forget your ruby slippers…

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ghobe’ vam wIj tuq rur!

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Chrisoff, I happen to be one of those geeks ya don’t want to encourage. I have a welcome mat that says that, except it’s in decimal.

I also have a shower curtain with the Periodic Table on it.

And several t-shirts of geeky nature.

Nothing with Roman numerals … yet!!

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Since the Romans didn’t have a zero, would that not be “there’s no place like CXXVII…I”? Or “there’s no place like CXXVII.nulla.nulla.I”? (Or maybe nusquam.nusquam)

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You didn’t have very much to do at work today, did you?

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It has been grueling, I tell you, simply grueling, but somebody has to ferret out the Amish soft p0rn.

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It’s a “sorry” job, and we thank you for doing it. (smoking…scandalous! :astonished: )