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applegrove

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24. Oh. I got that wrong. I thought it was a joke showing how stupid Romans were.

Reply to Hydra (Reply #16)

Wed Aug 28, 2013, 08:10 PM

Aug 2013

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That is a much better joke. V=5

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"21 Jokes Only History Nerds Will Understand" [View all] applegrove Aug 2013 OP

Those were great. Thanks for posting this. TDale313 Aug 2013 #1

Heh, some of those were quite cute arcane1 Aug 2013 #2

I know. applegrove Aug 2013 #6

Which ones did you have trouble with? I think I got them all. LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #3

I had trouble with "Impaler - I hardly know her" the other two I got when I looked at them again. applegrove Aug 2013 #7

I think it was just a joke about that type of pun, not a pun in itself. arcane1 Aug 2013 #12

Okay. That makes sense. So I got them all in the end. applegrove Aug 2013 #23

"impale her? I hardly know her!" Spider Jerusalem Aug 2013 #14

The pic is of Vlad the Impaler Motown_Johnny Aug 2013 #28

The "2 fingers, 5 beers" one. johnp3907 Aug 2013 #15

V is 5 in roman numerals Hydra Aug 2013 #16

D'oh! johnp3907 Aug 2013 #17

But "II" would still be two fingers Taitertots Aug 2013 #22

Oh. I got that wrong. I thought it was a joke showing how stupid Romans were. applegrove Aug 2013 #24

I don't get 3 of them Motown_Johnny Aug 2013 #29

The martini one has to do with plurals, winter is coming Aug 2013 #34

That goes back to an old Wayne and Schuster comedy routing eridani Aug 2013 #39

The Archduke is Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination started World War One muriel_volestrangler Aug 2013 #37

My Faves... K & R !! WillyT Aug 2013 #4

That first one has been made less funny. Jim Lane Aug 2013 #30

And he still got a lighter sentence than Manning. n/t winter is coming Aug 2013 #35

I may be mistaken, but I believe Mr. Peabody should be credited for a few of those Brother Buzz Aug 2013 #5

I think you may be right about that. nt independentpiney Aug 2013 #9

If anyone could make a gawdawful pun about an historical event, Art_from_Ark Aug 2013 #45

Marking for later- damn firewall. nt awoke_in_2003 Aug 2013 #8

Number 6 was actually Proudhon, not Marx Spider Jerusalem Aug 2013 #10

I got the ones I could see Warpy Aug 2013 #11

Funny nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #13

20 of 21 LearningCurve Aug 2013 #18

Sans is "without". NutmegYankee Aug 2013 #20

Well I knew that. That's a joke? socialist_n_TN Aug 2013 #27

Sans serif (the font family) n/t X_Digger Aug 2013 #31

As LearningCurve said, it's a font joke. Jim Lane Aug 2013 #32

Styles of type faces Retrograde Aug 2013 #33

I think they should have used serif and sans serif type faces for the captions muriel_volestrangler Aug 2013 #36

That would have made it funnier. NutmegYankee Aug 2013 #38

And should fix the kerning too!!! Paulie Aug 2013 #41

I got 20 out of 21. NutmegYankee Aug 2013 #19

In Latin for one of the groups of nouns the plural ending for us is i dsc Aug 2013 #25

Watch the graffiti scene in "Life of Brian" again. Spitfire of ATJ Aug 2013 #26

These are great! Thanks. Scuba Aug 2013 #21

Kick Scurrilous Aug 2013 #40

21 Demonaut Aug 2013 #42

This is awesome! Thank you! nt msanthrope Aug 2013 #43

Ha, those were funny. Blue_In_AK Aug 2013 #44