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Title: Hadrian's Wall
Post by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on October 31, 2003, 05:03:22 PM

The History Channel ran a show today on Hadrian's Wall.
I only caught the closing credits, but in the middle of this intense, military music they're playing, they showed a picture of two sheep.
I'm thinking the voice over is something like:
"Hard pressed to hold the Picts out of Britain, and unwilling to hire more Saxon Mercenaries, the Romans resorted to sheep to defend their borders."
Either that, or the sheep replaced the camp women, I wasn't sure.

Title: Re: Hadrian's Wall
Post by: fuzzyoctopus on October 31, 2003, 07:20:59 PM

We just recently talked about Hadrian's Wall in my history class.  

"So he built the wall to keep the Scottish barbarians out."  
"Yeah, 'cause a 4-foot wall is going to keep out a whooooole lot of people.

(I know, it used to be much taller, but the idea of 6-inch Scots amuses me to no end.)

Title: Re: Hadrian's Wall
Post by: Mad Dr Jeffe on November 01, 2003, 09:07:33 AM

It was pretty effective while they had folks to defend it.

Title: Re: Hadrian's Wall
Post by: Entsuropi on November 01, 2003, 04:43:51 PM

Heh. I don't think i have ever seen hadrains wall. Maybe i did, but thought it was another dry stone wall.