{"id":61657,"date":"2021-02-26T01:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=61657"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:53:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T18:53:54","slug":"qotd-what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/26\/qotd-what-have-the-romans-ever-done-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: “What have the Romans ever done for us?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>REG: They’ve bled us white, the bastards. They’ve taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers’ fathers.<\/p>\n

LORETTA: And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers.<\/p>\n

REG: Yeah.<\/p>\n

LORETTA: And from our fathers’ fathers’ fathers’ fathers.<\/p>\n

REG: Yeah. All right, Stan. Don’t labour the point. And what have they ever given us in return?!<\/p>\n

XERXES: The aqueduct?<\/p>\n

REG: What?<\/p>\n

XERXES: The aqueduct.<\/p>\n

REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that’s true. Yeah.<\/p>\n

COMMANDO #3: And the sanitation.<\/p>\n

LORETTA: Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?<\/p>\n

REG: Yeah. All right. I’ll grant you the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done.<\/p>\n

MATTHIAS: And the roads.<\/p>\n

REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don’t they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads–<\/p>\n

COMMANDO: Irrigation.<\/p>\n

XERXES: Medicine.<\/p>\n

COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh…<\/p>\n

COMMANDO #2: Education.<\/p>\n

COMMANDOS: Ohh…<\/p>\n

REG: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.<\/p>\n

COMMANDO #1: And the wine.<\/p>\n

COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah…<\/p>\n

FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that’s something we’d really miss, Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.<\/p>\n

COMMANDO: Public baths.<\/p>\n

LORETTA: And it’s safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.<\/p>\n

FRANCIS: Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let’s face it. They’re the only ones who could in a place like this.<\/p>\n

COMMANDOS: Hehh, heh. Heh heh heh heh heh heh heh.<\/p>\n

REG: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?<\/p>\n

XERXES: Brought peace.<\/p>\n

REG: Oh. Peace? Shut up!<\/p>\n

Monty Python’s Life of Brian<\/em><\/a>, 1979.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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