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[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Vagalinski noted that the discovery was made in the Cloaca Maxima sewer, where archaeologists hardly expected to find anything.

I have a friend in Rome by that name!

[–] aeronmelon 28 points 5 months ago

He has a wife, you know...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Ahh, the husband of Incontinentia Buttocks!

[–] betterdeadthanreddit 9 points 5 months ago

Kind of a long name, do they shorten it to a word or two in daily use or go by the full sentence?

[–] aeronmelon 49 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In 2000 years, people are going to be excavating New England and wondering why there are so many Christopher Columbus and Robert E. Lee statues resting on old lake beds.

[–] samus12345 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Somehow, I don't think they'll consider them works of art worth preserving.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

looks like a damn elden ring sorcerer helm

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It does. My brother and I call those dudes “Burger Kings” because they look like BK’s creepy king mascot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I'm picturing the god of having little wings growing out of your ankles getting cancelled.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dammit now I’m gay again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago
[–] madcaesar 12 points 5 months ago

Stupid sexy Hermes!

[–] Anticorp 12 points 5 months ago

Hermes got some booty!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whatcha doing there buddy?

[–] RizzRustbolt 4 points 5 months ago

Anchoring some sort of curse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"FINALLY! I THOUGHT IT WOULDN'T EVER TURN BACK UP!"

-A very collection completion obsessed Thracian Pagan

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

From wiki: "Most scholars derive "Hermes" from Greek ἕρμα (herma),[14] "stone heap."[3]: 177 "

Seems about right.

[–] Siethron 5 points 5 months ago
[–] rollmagma 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Ok, besides the sewers, what have the Bulgarians ever done for us?!