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    Default Romans have no sense of humor

    I never knew it, but it appears that the tribes living on the Iberian peninsula in ancient times were renowned as great comedians. Sometimes, leaders or generals would receive a cognomen to reflect their awesome ability to joke around and be silly:



    But the invading Romans had no respect for the laughter these people were bringing into the world. Their greatest general of the day decided to crush them, in between banging various local senoritas and talking the hind legs off donkeys:



    Yes, it's true. The Romans have no sense of humor.
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    Aderbal lol .I think the first letter is I not l.

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    what's aderbal? sorry maybe i'm too slow :))

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    Aderbal is the guys name and lol is his surname.

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    People with a sense of humour don't conquer the world though. All 'great' figures in history were dull and humourless. If they knew how to laugh they wouldn't feel so depressed to the point that they have to conquer people and enslave them.

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    I miss the old epitaph titles that extreme-trait family members used to get... I've only seen one so far, on a guy who was "lame from birth". But, I guess, LOL will do for now. :)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Danest
    I miss the old epitaph titles that extreme-trait family members used to get... I've only seen one so far, on a guy who was "lame from birth". But, I guess, LOL will do for now. :)
    That's true actually, what happened to all the old titles? I mean Alexander obtained the 'Great' title, though I'm assuming this was given to him while he was alive and not by people afterwards... is there a reason why titles were removed?

    And that pic is pretty funny... maybe some cowardly generals can have the 'brb' title... hmm... that's a bad joke, though I was never good at making jokes in English in the first place...

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    Default Re: Romans have no sense of humor

    Quote Originally Posted by Danest
    I miss the old epitaph titles that extreme-trait family members used to get... I've only seen one so far, on a guy who was "lame from birth". But, I guess, LOL will do for now. :)
    I half remember having a general with a newly acquired name of "the Bastard" in vanilla RTW or possibly Medieval.

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    warlords make great empires not for their people, but to compensate for something-abserdal lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayve
    People with a sense of humour don't conquer the world though. All 'great' figures in history were dull and humourless. If they knew how to laugh they wouldn't feel so depressed to the point that they have to conquer people and enslave them.
    This reminds me of two movie scenes:

    a) Timebandits: Napoleon monologing about great people's height, and

    b) Spartacus: Sempronius Gracchus (Ch. Laughton) explaining Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov) the difference between "gluttons" and "handsome" people.

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    "Once there was a thief who was to be executed. As he was taken away he made a bargain with the king: In one year he would teach the king's favorite horse to sing hymns."
    "The other prisoners watched the thief singing to the horse and laughed. 'You will not succeed,' they told him. 'No one can.' To which the thief replied, 'I have a year, and who knows what will happen in that time. The king might die. The horse might die. I might die. And perhaps the horse will learn to sing.'"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sakkura
    I never knew it, but it appears that the tribes living on the Iberian peninsula in ancient times were renowned as great comedians. Sometimes, leaders or generals would receive a cognomen to reflect their awesome ability to joke around and be silly:



    But the invading Romans had no respect for the laughter these people were bringing into the world. Their greatest general of the day decided to crush them, in between banging various local senoritas and talking the hind legs off donkeys:



    Yes, it's true. The Romans have no sense of humor.
    lol. thats too funny

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