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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Vagalinski noted that the discovery was made in the Cloaca Maxima sewer, where archaeologists hardly expected to find anything.

I have a friend in Rome by that name!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

He has a wife, you know...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Ahh, the husband of Incontinentia Buttocks!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Kind of a long name, do they shorten it to a word or two in daily use or go by the full sentence?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In 2000 years, people are going to be excavating New England and wondering why there are so many Christopher Columbus and Robert E. Lee statues resting on old lake beds.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somehow, I don't think they'll consider them works of art worth preserving.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

looks like a damn elden ring sorcerer helm

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It does. My brother and I call those dudes “Burger Kings” because they look like BK’s creepy king mascot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm picturing the god of having little wings growing out of your ankles getting cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dammit now I’m gay again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Stupid sexy Hermes!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Hermes got some booty!

[–] Assman 12 points 1 month ago
[–] Imgonnatrythis 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whatcha doing there buddy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Anchoring some sort of curse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"FINALLY! I THOUGHT IT WOULDN'T EVER TURN BACK UP!"

-A very collection completion obsessed Thracian Pagan

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

From wiki: "Most scholars derive "Hermes" from Greek ἕρμα (herma),[14] "stone heap."[3]: 177 "

Seems about right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Ok, besides the sewers, what have the Bulgarians ever done for us?!