[lit-ideas] Re: Is Huntington right?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:33:45 -0400
Well, they had Superbowl style games where they threw people to lions and
watched them be torn to pieces. Gladiators who fought literally to the
death, crucifixions, slavery, sex with children, Caligula, Nero. Let's
see, what else? Flush toilets, after a fashion, so they weren't all bad.
> [Original Message]
> From: Andreas Ramos <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/11/2006 1:26:41 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is Huntington right?
>
> > Regarding the other post about them pulling the covers over their
heads, why are they
> > bringing it up at all if they're so pacifist and militarism isn't on
their minds?
>
>
> Speaking of which... what have the Romans ever done for us?
>
>
> REG:
> They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and
not just from us,
> from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers.
> LORETTA:
> And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
> REG:
> Yeah.
> LORETTA:
> And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
> REG:
> Yeah. All right, Stan. Don't labour the point. And what have they ever
given us in return?!
> XERXES:
> The aqueduct?
>
> REG:
> What?
> XERXES:
> The aqueduct.
> REG:
> Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
> COMMANDO #3:
> And the sanitation.
> LORETTA:
> Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
> REG:
> Yeah. All right. I'll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two
things that the
> Romans have done.
> MATTHIAS:
> And the roads.
> REG:
> Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying,
don't they? But apart
> from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads--
> COMMANDO:
> Irrigation.
> XERXES:
> Medicine.
> COMMANDOS:
> Huh? Heh? Huh...
> COMMANDO #2:
> Education.
> COMMANDOS:
> Ohh...
> REG:
> Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
> COMMANDO #1:
> And the wine.
> COMMANDOS:
> Oh, yes. Yeah...
> FRANCIS:
> Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.
Huh.
> COMMANDO:
> Public baths.
> LORETTA:
> And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
> FRANCIS:
> Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it. They're the
only ones who could
> in a place like this.
> COMMANDOS:
> Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.
> REG:
> All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine,
public order,
> irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the
Romans ever done
> for us?
> XERXES:
> Brought peace.
> REG:
> Oh. Peace? Shut up!
>
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