BS: I blame the Romans...

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 04:15 AM

The Romans also introduced pigeons to England, and, through their wearing of the toga, introduced rampant transvestism in Scottish men, who copied the habit and called it a 'kilt.'

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: The Shambles
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 02:46 AM

When in Hema..................

When on Portland - don't mention the 'R' word.

http://www.weymouth.gov.uk/main.asp?svid=7&svaid=294&svapid=1356

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Peace
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 01:53 AM

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. When in Poland, do as the Polaroids do.

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Peace
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 01:28 AM

Bunny and Hide?

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 12:11 AM

The book might be called 'Gladiathare' with a a film to follow with Warren Beatty?

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Peace
Date: 14 Apr 05 - 12:08 AM

" . . . domestic pots which could have been used for cooking."

Used to use it in brownies and cakes.

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Amos
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 11:57 PM

Hare raising, it is!

A

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: LadyJean
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 11:25 PM

Leading one to wonder when the first pair hopped out of their enclosure, and decided even English weather was better than winding up as haasenpfeffer.

Subject: RE: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Peace
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 11:21 PM

The rabbit died?

Subject: BS: I blame the Romans........
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 13 Apr 05 - 11:13 PM

Veni, Vidi, Effodia

I came, I saw , I dug.

So here's another the Romans did for us, they gave us the rabbit.

Watership Down (Aquanavis Tumulos) and Bright Eyes (Lucidus Oculus) will never be the same. Can Richard Adams write q pre-quel with gladiatorial bunnies?

Romans introduced the rabbit
By David Sapsted
(Filed: 14/04/2005)

Years of division among academics over whether the Romans or the Normans introduced rabbits into Britain appears to have been resolved.

An archaeological dig in Norfolk has uncovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old rabbit - by far the oldest of its kind found on these shores and regarded as final proof that the creatures are now on the list of what the Romans ever did for us.

Many believed that the Normans introduced rabbits for their meat and fur.

However, others have always insisted that the creatures were brought in by the Romans, citing Marcus Terrentius Varro (116-27BC) who wrote that the legions brought rabbits from Spain, where they were reared in walled enclosures and then served up as a gourmet dish.

The remains were found at Lynford, near Thetford.

Jayne Bown, the manager of the Norfolk Archaeological Unit, which is conducting the dig, said yesterday: "We can date the rabbit to the first or second century AD from the pottery fragments found beside it. Some of these fragments included domestic pots which could have been used for cooking.

"We could tell the bones had been butchered."