Apart from the anchors, what have the bloody Romans ever given us?
"Apart from the anchors, what have the bloody Romans ever given us?"
"Plumbing, highways, aquaducts, currency."
"Yeah but what else have they given us"
Monty Python - ka ching
BTW the bridge that the Hogwarts Express crosses is an old Roman Aqueduct that has stood the sands of time and in the railroad building era of the 18th Century was converted to modern usage.
Mrs Gormley, my Latin Teacher, would wax eloquent regarding the Romans. Hope I did you justice Mrs Gormley.
Reg
Yeah, all right, I'll grant you the aqueduct and sanitation, the two things the Romans have done.
Matthias
And the roads.
Reg
Oh, yeah, obviously the roads. I mean the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitation, the aqueduct, and the roads...
Revolutionary III
Irrigation.
Revolutionary I
Medicine.
Revolutionary IV
Education.
Reg
Yeah, yeah, all right, fair enough.
Revolutionary V
And the wine.
All revolutionaries except Reg
Oh, yeah! Right!
Rogers
Yeah! Yeah, that's something we'd really miss Reg, if the Romans left. Huh.
Revolutionary VI
Public bathes.
Loretta
And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now, Reg.
Rogers
Yeah, they certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it; they're the only ones who could in a place like this.
All revolutionaries except Reg
Hahaha...all right...
Reg
All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Revolutionary I
Brought peace?
Reg
Oh, peace! Shut up!
Roads and waterways and arches in architecture.
And Spagetti????
***Apart from the anchors, what have the bloody Romans ever given us?***
A takeoff on THE LIFE OF BRIAN, am I right?