Romeblox

Me: What did you learn in school today?

Kid: We learned about "SPQR" in ancient Rome.

Me: Romanes eunt domes!

Wife: What?

Me: Don't worry about it.

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[Sylvian]

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[FanOfMostEverything]

The people called Romanes, they go to the house?

[UrsaMajor]

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It will never stop being hilarious to me that this — as far as I know entirely accidentally — parallels a real section of the Talmud. (The discussion more or less ends with, "OK, yeah, they gave us some pretty sweet infrastructure, but it was all in the service of oppressive colonialism.")

[Elric of Melnipony]

"I say he's the messiah! I should know, I've followed a few."

[Herald of Opera]

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I suspect it was deliberate. There is an absurd amount of depth to what should by all rights be throwaway jokes in Monty Python. Remember the Black Knight scene? He was introduced fighting a green knight, as in the Green Knight who reacted to decapitation by calmly picking up his head and walking out the door with a half-hearted promise to reciprocate at a later time.

[UrsaMajor]

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Gawain and the Green Knight is a lot more well-known - especially in England - than Shabbat 33b. Besides, if it were intentional, I think one of the Pythons (none of them Jews) would've said something to that effect. IIRC they did mention, e.g., Josephus as a source.

[Dan]

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It was nice that that Green Knight movie a while back exposed more people to the story. But it was a huge wasted opportunity that it wasn't done entirely in Middle English or Breton/Old Cornish.

[Georg]

I've had my story-based tussle with Latin. And Svedish. And German. And English. A lot of English. I swear, the language was designed to drive Englishmen mad. And it succeeded admirably.