Will Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I hope Judie doesn't read that, Katie.Or if she does, that's yet another thing I've got to bring back from Holland & Barrett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I will pay. It will change your life. No more, "What's the matter babe"?[blink]."Nuffink!!!!"[:@]Believe me.[:D]See another smiley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Tesco's is cheaper, Will Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Where are your smilies then Gay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I have never taken it, I know my sister does. I was pretty lucky on that score and I think it's safe to say 'the moment has passed' [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Will - I take it you know the Roman legend of why the Onager went extinct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Is it for women "in the moment then?". My moment hasnt come yet. (Just to put the record straight). I just took it because whenever I ring Twinx, she laughs like a loonie and I wanted some of it too.No moment.............honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Well, she told me it was evening primrose but who knows??[Www]Dick, please enlighten me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 No, it's too rude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 But you posted the picture of a you know what from space just 30 mins ago[blink] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Ruder than that. To do with the propensities of Roman ladies and the effect on the donkeys. I say no more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Hang on, I just need to look up what propensity means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Will - I take it you know the Roman legend of why the Onager went extinct?[/quote]The story I recall (attributed to Pliny, I think) was that the adult male was a rather jealous animal that was given to biting the nuts off any male foals that were born. Is that correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/propensityHmmm. Never mind.[:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Apparently propensity was word of the day on 23 October 1999. Today's word is homily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I think he was just compensating! Pliny was - how shall we say - a little naive in accepting the information given to him.His remedy for toothache: 'A piece bitten off from wood struck by lightning by a person with hands thrown behind his back, if it is applied to an aching tooth, is a remedy we are told for the pain. Some prescribe fumigation of the tooth with a human tooth from one of the same sex, and to use as an amulet a dog-tooth taken from an unburiedcorpse.'Or this gem: 'Earth taken out of a skull acts, it is said, as a depilatory for the eye-lashes, while any plant that has grown in the skull makes, when chewed, the teeth fall out, and ulcers marked round with a human bonedo not spread.'Of course the more common Onager in Rome was the artillery catapult of the same name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=37684&dict=CALDOui? Sorry I am still confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Apart from the kick, what is the key characteristic of a donkey?Right.What were Roman women reputed to be like?Right.So the imputation was that the habits of the Roman women were enough to exhaust the donkeys, to the extent that they went extinct.Right?I wish I hadn't started this, now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=39613&dict=CALD[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitzen Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Very enlightening!![:P] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Very confusing[:P][blink]What were roman women famous for? Sorry but I still don't get it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Yes you do!The myth was that Roman women were amorously enthusiastic and sought their pleasures wherever they could get them, even if it meant making an ass of their husbands...Sorry, the software can't handle a s s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 Having taken rather a detour can we get back to language if I ask how the conquering Romans communicated with the English (celts ?) when they got here ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 With swords, Gay. I think they were called something else though. Short swords, they were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 The Romans and the Celts had been trading together for many years, and it is likely that they spoke each other's languages pretty well. Also the Romans had been in Gaul for many years, and the theory is that the languages of Gaul and Britain were very similar. Certainly the idea of the Romans invading an unwilling Britain is at best only partly true. The south was part-Romanised already.The short sword was called a gladius, thus gladiator, a swordsman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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