Posted on 10/10/2002 11:02:29 AM PDT by chance33_98
Cooking fires. And IIRC, the chimney hadn't been invented yet.
Abandon Thread!
This is not a drill.
WE HAVE STRUCK CHEESE!
What an interesting place Rome must have been at that time........ lol......... continuous source of possible infectious disease.......
There had to be foundries to forge all that cool armor and swords. Lead was used to line the aquaducts.
Tanneries were foul places. Additionally there must have been plenty of kilns to fire for production of tiles for roofs, aquaducts, ect, not to mention art, urns and vases.
Finally, we know the Romans loved their bathhouses, they had to be heated also.
Of course, most likely the biggest culprit was the SUC, Sport Utility Chariot.
Um, the Romans had factories. If I recall correctly, pollution from some of their lead smelters was so bad, traces of it can easily be detected in Arctic ice cores.
Ooops. Just mentioned the same thing.
ROFL..........Sport Utility Chariots and Cheese Transmitted Diseases!!!!!!!!!! ROFL...........
Handy Latin Phrases
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!
God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse.
I think we're on the same wavelength.
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
The designated hitter rule has got to go.
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.
Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.
In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.
Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?
How do you get your hair to do that?
Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui.
Bad kitty! Why don't you use the cat box? I put new litter in it.
Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt.
You know, the Romans invented the art of love.
(At a barbeque) Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?
Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?
Neutiquam erro.
I am not lost.
Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero?
Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it?
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.
Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out.
Playin' Ketchup again today......
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