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Originally Posted by DtheP47
I am sure there will be a clamour of real real gobbinners telling me they were indeed born on the pavement but I think it best to ignore those attention seekers and dolichocecephalics (cb alert here Mog)
· * Cyber shin kicking, a bit like the the Bacup Coconutters but without the clogs, bells and black faces.
· ** Click baiting, miss spelling something or wrongly identifying a place e.g typing Atlas Street instead of Wellington Street and then waiting for somebody (usually Retlaw) to shout in his big bad bold font and throw his bag of pendant dust at you)
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Originally Posted by DtheP47
"An interesting fact about Greylag geese is that they were once considered sacred by the Romans after reportedly saving the city of Rome in 390 BC. When the Gauls tried to climb in, the geese warned the Romans with their loud calls about the attempted invasion. After this, believed that the geese were sacred and it was ordered that the geese were to not be eaten in Pre-Roman Britain."
(cb alert here Retlaw) see below.
Sodit Retlaw I’ll do it for you:
I would doubt the validity of the last sentence in that quote.
Caesar was about 300 years later to start with,
and he only spent three months in Britain anyway.
How he could order that geese not be eaten in Pre-Roman
Britain is quite beyond me....
(I know it says 'it was ordered' not 'he ordered'
but the Ancient Brits wouldn't have heard of this edifying tale,
and wouldn't have stopped eating greylags, brents or
pinkfeet as a result of it. It's another of those unchecked 'facts'.
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Oh I am enjoying this thread and learning so much too...
If I maybe allowed to throw a little pedant dust as well...
a) because I can
b) because I want to
c) it's Christmas and I just feel like it
First, our esteemed local(ish) Morris dancers go by the name of the Britannia Coco-nut dancers of Bacup, or just Coco-nutters. The hyphen appears to not be mandatory and is sometimes not seen. But not the Bacup Coconutters please.
Second, I would be interested to know what dolichocephaly (check your spelling BTW) has to do with attention-seeking gobbiners. If you are implying any sort of abnormality or deficiency on their part I find that rather offensive.
Third, you rather spoilt your attempt at a dig at Retlaw by missing out the word "Caesar" from the last sentence of the first part of your reply about geese. Yes I have checked your reference and it's there.
What bird was credited with saving Rome from the Gauls in 390BC?
Phew I feel better after that!