[Bubba Ho-Tep]

An Italian adage that "Rome and the world are safe, so long as the Colosseum stands"...

There's a pretty solid case to be made that that's a mistranslation, and that the original form was "as long as the colossus stands." The colossus was pulled down around 1000 AD and melted down for the bronze (except maybe for the bits in the Capitoline Museum). So we're screwed.

[maryz]

So we're screwed.

LOL! I guess so -- talk about "borrowed time"!