Monty Python's "Life of Brian" (The aqueduct...)

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Monty Python's "Life of Brian" (The aqueduct...)

- We're getting in through the underground heating system here, up through into the main audience chamber here, and Pilate's wife's bedroom is here. Having grabbed his wife, we inform Pilate that she's in our custody, and forthwith issue our demands.
- Any questions?
- What exactly are the demands?
- We're giving Pilate two days to dismantle the entire apparatus of the Roman imperialist state and if he doesn't agree immediately, we execute her.
- Cut her head off?
- Cut all her bits off. Send them back on the hour, every hour. Show them we're not to be trifled with.
- And of course, we point out that they bear full responsibility when we chop her up, and that we shall not submit to blackmail.
- No blackmail!
- They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had. And not just from us! From our fathers and from our fathers' fathers.
- And from our fathers' fathers' fathers.
- Yeah.
- And from our fathers' fathers' fathers' fathers.
- All right, don't labour the point.
- And what have they ever given us in return?
- The aqueduct?
- What?
- The aqueduct.
- Oh. Yeah, they did give us that. That's true, yeah.
- And the sanitation.
- Oh, yeah, the sanitation, Reg. Remember what the city used to be like?
- I'll grant you the aqueduct and sanitation, the two things the Romans have done.
- And the roads.
- Yeah, obviously the roads. I mean the roads go without saying, don't they? But apart from the sanitaion, the aqueduct and the roads...
- Irrigation.
- Medicine.
- Education.
- Yeah, yeah, all right, fair enough.
- And the wine.
- That's something we'd really miss, Reg, if the Romans left.
- Public baths.
- And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now.
- They certainly know how to keep order. Let's face it, they're the only ones who could in a place like this.
- All right, but apart from sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
- Brought peace?
- Oh, peace. Shut up!

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Darkscamp1 (September 18, 2008 at 8:47 pm)
i watched this in school lol
revengeofcleveland (June 29, 2008 at 5:33 am)
although the expression may be used more generally for all ancient speakers of the Gaulish language (a derivative of early Celtic) who were widespread in Europe and extended even into central Anatolia by Roman times. The Gauls were Celts which was a word coined in the 17th century to describe the people that inhabited the British Isles and Gaul, which not only consisted of France but parts of Spain (see Gallaecia nowadays Galicia), northern Portugal and northern Italy.
Anaris10 (June 29, 2008 at 4:30 am)
I'm sure you know they weren't French until the Franks invaded,Hence the name.The Gauls still practiced human sacrifice,not so the Cherokee,who in fact developed their own alphabet.Much more legible than the Celtic Ogham alphabet,which was primarily used only on grave inscriptions.So,why not the Cherokee?
revengeofcleveland (June 29, 2008 at 5:25 am)
The Franks or Frankish people (Latin: Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an ethnic group living north and east of the Lower Rhine. Under the Merovingian dynasty, they founded one of the Germanic monarchies which replaced the Western Roman Empire from the 5th century. The Frankish state consolidated its hold over large parts of western Europe by the end of the eighth century and the Carolingian Empire and its successor states were Frankish
revengeofcleveland (June 29, 2008 at 5:30 am)
Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was the Roman name for the region of Western Europe comprising present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine. In English, the word Gaul (French: Gaulois) may also refer to an inhabitant of that region,
revengeofcleveland (June 29, 2008 at 5:34 am)
they were celts as am i..i am what i am...
revengeofcleveland (June 29, 2008 at 5:40 am)
Vercingetorix (pronounced [werkiŋˈɡetoriks] in Latin), died 46 BC, was chieftain of the Arverni, originating from the Arvernian city of Gergovia and known as the man who led the Gauls in their ultimately unsuccessful war against Roman rule under Julius Caesar. Known primarily through Caesar's accounts, Vercingetorix's revolt is frequently used as a heroic example of Gallic virtue and resolve
Anaris10 (June 29, 2008 at 6:17 am)
I already know all this stuff!I've read Caesar's stuff and how they were the Keltoi to the Greeks,Also,the book of Galatians was addressed to the Celts in what is now Turkey.Celts also served as mercenaries in the Middle-East.Why would I know this? Because I am Irish-Scottish-Welsh as well as Miwok and Cherokee Indian.
revengeofcleveland (June 29, 2008 at 8:36 am)
well what do want a fucking cookie? i'm FRENCH why do you think i have this outrageous accent!~
Anaris10 (June 29, 2008 at 1:49 pm)
Don't you know we ALREADY have one!