If they built roads in England would people use them?
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BadJerry wrote: but apart from roads and aqueducs and government, and military hierarchy, and expansion of medical knowledge, and basic taxation policies, and cement, and codification of laws, and... :) Jeremy Kimball
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BadJerry wrote: but apart from roads and aqueducs and government, and military hierarchy, and expansion of medical knowledge, and basic taxation policies, and cement, and codification of laws, and... :) Jeremy Kimball
Wine - don't forget about the wine :laugh: The tigress is here :-D
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Wine - don't forget about the wine :laugh: The tigress is here :-D
Wine is definitely the most significant Roman contribution to civilization, far more important than the Greeks' only two legacies - logic and male bonding. "Your village called -
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Wine - don't forget about the wine :laugh: The tigress is here :-D
:laugh: Oh, how could I forget? They also made a lot of beer, ice cream (well, gellatio), and liquor... Jeremy K.
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Wine - don't forget about the wine :laugh: The tigress is here :-D
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Reg They bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had. And not just from us, but 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 label the point. And what have they ever given us in return? Rebel2 The aquaduct? Reg What? Rebel2 The aquaduct. Reg Oh yeah, yeah. They did give us that. That's true, yeah. Rebel3 And sanitation. Loretta Oh yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like. Reg Yeah, all right, I'll grant you the aquaduct , the santation are two things the Romans have done... Mathias 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 aquaduct, and the roads... Rebel4 Irrigation. Rebel2 Medcine. Rebel5 Education. Reg Yeah, yeah, all right. Fair enough... Rebel1 And the wine. Rebels Oh, yeah Francis Yeah. Yeah, That's something that we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left, huh. Rebel6 Public baths. Loretta And it's safe to walk the in streets at night now Reg. Francis Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it, the only ones who could in a place like this. PFJ Huhuhuh. Huhuhuhuhuh. Reg All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medecine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health... What have the Romans ever done for us? Rebel2 Brought peace? Reg Oh, peace. Shaddup. oh and apprently they invented the whole stick a bit of animal between two slices of bread type stuff. pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
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Reg They bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had. And not just from us, but 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 label the point. And what have they ever given us in return? Rebel2 The aquaduct? Reg What? Rebel2 The aquaduct. Reg Oh yeah, yeah. They did give us that. That's true, yeah. Rebel3 And sanitation. Loretta Oh yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like. Reg Yeah, all right, I'll grant you the aquaduct , the santation are two things the Romans have done... Mathias 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 aquaduct, and the roads... Rebel4 Irrigation. Rebel2 Medcine. Rebel5 Education. Reg Yeah, yeah, all right. Fair enough... Rebel1 And the wine. Rebels Oh, yeah Francis Yeah. Yeah, That's something that we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left, huh. Rebel6 Public baths. Loretta And it's safe to walk the in streets at night now Reg. Francis Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it, the only ones who could in a place like this. PFJ Huhuhuh. Huhuhuhuhuh. Reg All right. But apart from the sanitation, the medecine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health... What have the Romans ever done for us? Rebel2 Brought peace? Reg Oh, peace. Shaddup. oh and apprently they invented the whole stick a bit of animal between two slices of bread type stuff. pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars
pseudonym67 wrote: oh and apprently they invented the whole stick a bit of animal between two slices of bread type stuff. I thought that was the Earl of Sandwich? --Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
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pseudonym67 wrote: oh and apprently they invented the whole stick a bit of animal between two slices of bread type stuff. I thought that was the Earl of Sandwich? --Colin Mackay--
"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but perseverance." (H. Jackson Brown)
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: I thought that was the Earl of Sandwich? he just seems to have gotten the credit for it. I saw it on a the history channel and they were on about how the romans were more into communal eating than modern life and that they have found remains sandwich type things. Though technically I don't think that we would consider it to be proper bread but it was a forerunner. Breads great grandad if you like. I was thinking more otf the hamburger but then there's not really a lot of difference. pseudonym67 Neural Dot Net Articles 1-11 Start Here Fuzzy Dot Net Articles 1-4 Start Here PathFinder Game Of Life 2 Life Wars