So, tell me DU, do you like movies about gladiators?

[HEyHEY]

Huh?

[Hardrada]

1. Of course, SPARTACUS!!

who turned on his captors and led a Slave Revolt against vile Roman overlords!

[HEyHEY]

2. That's a well groomed lawn for a killing pit, eh?

[Hardrada]

3. Looks like a golf course someplace.

In Scotland, of course. Gladiatorial games to amuse Abramoff's clients!

[Lisa]

4. it looks like the guy on the left is wearing ...

... one of the Windlass Steelcraft Roman military helmets. I guess he could be a soldier putting down the Spartacus rebellion -- only he's not carrying the regulation rectangular shield. Guy on the right has a real gladiator-type helmet, though (which usually looked quite different from the kind issued to the troops).

p.s. if it is a Windlass helmet -- the neckguard will have a point on the back, which doesn't match up with the real ones they've found. Plus the crest-holder should be wood ...





compare with ...





How to avoid getting swindled at the armorer's:

http://www.larp.com/legioxx/bad.html


So you want to be a gladiator:
http://www.ludus.org.uk/

Or join the Roman legions so you don't get nailed up like poor Spartacus!:
http://www.larp.com/legioxx/groups.html

[Hardrada]

5. Interesting Information.

I should get a Praetorian guards outfit. Shrub should order some of those for his WH cohort!

[Lisa]

6. I got a kick out of the Doonesbury caricature of Bush ...

What bets Trudeau used one of the bad replica helmets as a model? (The historical inaccuracy makes it even funnier ... very in-character, for Dubya to rush out and spend a lot of money on a flawed helmet, because he didn't do his homework!)

[KamaAina]

7. Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

[MadHound]

8. "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

"Roger Roger, whats the vector, Victor?"

Loved that movie when I was kid, still gives me the giggles.

[Sugar Smack]

9. "And Leon's getting Laaaaaarger!"

:rofl: