GUARD #4: chuckling
PILATE: What's so... funny about the name "Biggus _ickus"?
CENTURION: Well, it's a joke name, sir.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monty+python+biggus+dickus
Posted on 02/27/2019 10:29:44 AM PST by ETL
An ancient quarry near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England offers a smutty glimpse into the lives of the Roman soldiers who built the famous fortification.
Archaeologists from the U.K.’s Newcastle University and Historic England are working to record the unique inscriptions carved into the walls of the quarry, which provided stone for Hadrian’s Wall.
The sandstone inscriptions include a caricature of an officer and a phallus, which denoted good luck in Roman culture.
Other carvings at the quarry in Gelt Forest have helped experts date the rare inscriptions. One inscription, for example, describes ‘APRO ET MAXIMO CONSVLIBVS OFICINA MERCATI,’ a reference to the consulate of Aper and Maximus.
This dates the inscription to 207 A.D., a time when Hadrian’s Wall was undergoing a major renovation, according to Historic England.
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GUARD #4: chuckling
PILATE: What's so... funny about the name "Biggus _ickus"?
CENTURION: Well, it's a joke name, sir.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monty+python+biggus+dickus
Roman soldiers’ very rude graffiti revealed near Hadrian’s Wall
Roman soldiers ‘wery wude’ graffiti revealed near Hadrian’s Wall
Must have been one of my ancestors.
Now I know where I get it from.
LOL! Same as today!
Veni, et sedit, cacavi
“I came, I sat, I crapped”
One of the inscriptions is “Clintoni quod mentitur.” Which translates to “The Clintons lie.”
Evidently, a branch of Bill’s family once lived in the area.
Any graffiti with Latin for “Picts Girls Are Easy”?
So damn funny.
Is that the Latin equivalent for "Aper and Maximus, sitting in a tree..."?
Yeah, riiiiiight.....................
“For a Good Time, Call VIII VI VII V III I IX”
Romans did not have the zero....
I think it means the consul OFICINA MERCATI screws pigs...............
LOL, I realized that, and I thought “Dang it!”
I see what you did there.........................
Why is anyone surprised, they had coins that denoted their worth by various sex acts on them.. they were used for prostitutes.. what act was on the coin was what they were good for.
They drew porno pics on the walls at Pompeii, which you can see on the tour there.
PILATE: "The sandstone inscriptions include a caricature of an officer and a phallus, which denoted good luck in Roman culture."
There is a little comic relief when, during the urgent frenzy of his investigation finds that Mary Magdalene was identified as a follower and possible source of information. He barges into the Roman barracks and asks if any of the soldiers know her, and they sheepishly look around and all slowly raise their hands.
Too bad. Can’t call Jenny, as such.
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