Elgin Marbles Why All The Fuss?

Where did Roman technology come from?

And do you count Germany as belonging to Rome? Because it was called the Holy Roman Empire?

 

I knew my Armenian brother would understand.

 

Well that would be going too far - the Holy Roman Empire was a fiction. But why don't we get that Liberty Ball back from Philadelphia? It must have been cast when the foundry was part of the British Empire.

 

Nice to meet you the other week:

 

You're both a lot younger than I thought.

 

I bet the lunch afterwards was ******* amazing.

 

I wouldn't have wanted to tell Charlemagne that to his face...

 

Or Charles V with his jutting Habsburg jaw.

 

All this 'was Constantinople Greek/Roman/Hellene/a mix of it all' is becoming Byzantine in its complexity.

 

Not as bad as Charles II of Spain...he couldn't even chew his food as his upper & lower teeth wouldn't meet.

 

It's nobody's business but the Turks'.

 

Does our own Charles III chew his food or does a lackey do it for him?

 

Isn't that his toothpaste?

 

**Re-re-refixed**

Q. Why are the Pyramids in Eygpt?
A. Because they were too heavy for the British to steal.

My 'joke', my words.

 

It's okay, he's part of the family. I'll put in a word for you.

 

Get along, kid.

 

While the music played you worked by candle light?

Or " The time has come, to say fair's fair
To pay the rent,to pay our share"...