When you thought your day couldn't get any worse (79 AD edition)

Mr Quatro · 05-30-18, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

Probably still better than dying in boiling poisonous gases as most people in Pompeii.

So true

August · 05-30-18, 01:32 PM

But definitely not as good as reading about the eruption a few days later in the Rome Daily Herald while sipping on wine and eating grapes.

Catfish · 05-30-18, 01:38 PM

^ »It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.« (Livius)

Jimbuna · 05-31-18, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by August

But definitely not as good as reading about the eruption a few days later in the Rome Daily Herald while sipping on wine and eating grapes.

True that

05-30-18, 01:32 PM	#2
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,200 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	But definitely not as good as reading about the eruption a few days later in the Rome Daily Herald while sipping on wine and eating grapes. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

05-30-18, 01:38 PM	#3
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,767 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	^ »It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.« (Livius) __________________ >^..^<*)))>{ All generalizations are wrong.