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February 19th, 2011, 04:58 PM
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#21 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by Richard Stanbery  My laugh of the day has been received! Thanks T. 
LOL | You are welcome, sir.
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February 19th, 2011, 05:11 PM
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#22 | | Suspended indefinitely
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Originally Posted by Tennenbaum A kingdom lost for lack of Viagra! | 
Fresco of the God Priapus, Casa dei Vettii, Pompeii.
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February 19th, 2011, 05:12 PM
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#23 | | Suspended indefinitely
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That was obviously painted by a man.
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February 19th, 2011, 05:12 PM
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That, or the dude is hiding a balloon animal in his toga.
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February 20th, 2011, 06:48 AM
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#25 | | Historian
Joined: Aug 2009 From: Belgium Posts: 5,673 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Tennenbaum A kingdom lost for lack of Viagra! | They had to fight naked, not with a raging hard-on. | | | |
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February 20th, 2011, 11:12 AM
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#26 | | Creature of the Night
Joined: Nov 2007 From: Alba Posts: 7,628 | Quote:
Originally Posted by sylla1 Needless to say, this ritual nudity has been utterly exaggerated in history and fiction to this very day; e.g. the Picts (who BTW were not Celtic!).... | Actually Sylla, we don't know that. We do know they spoke what was likely to be a Brythonnic language. That is almost the sun total of our knowledge of the Picts.
Having said that, there is no corroborative evidence from anywhere that they fought naked. Quote: |
The Insubres and Boii wore their trousers and light cloaks, but the Gaesatae had discarded these garments owing to their proud confidence in themselves, and stood naked, with nothing but their arms, in front of the whole army, thinking that thus they would be more efficient, as some of the ground was overgrown with brambles which would catch in their clothes and impede the use of their weapons
| From my perspective, running through a bramble patch in my birthday suit is very much contra-indicated...
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