...Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine,

[dolo amber]

public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

:D

[benburch]

1. Orgies!

You forgot Orgies!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Yeah, but....

You have to learn Latin if you want to go to Latin America. How fair is that?

[benburch]

3. Latin...

Latin is a dead language
As dead as it can be
First it killed the Romans
And now it's killing me!

[Flaxbee]

4. methinks they also cobbled together a pretty decent legal

system...

Show-offs!

[Teddy_Salad]

5. Togas

Just think, we would never have been able to have had 'Toga Parties' without the Romans.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. NASCAR

http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/circus_maximus/

[dolo amber]

7. NO!!

THE ROMANS DID NOT INVENT NASCAR!!! x(

Criminy! Has no one on this board ever seen "The Life of Brian"??

:P

[CanuckAmok]

8. Peace?

n/t

[Maeve]

9. Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers.

Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar. Tuscany fried bats