When Barb was crucified for receiving 100 000 likes, the Romans had to provide a very lengthy titulus, mostly because they couldn't count beyond one thousand...
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The damn wenches formed a union, The "Sisterhood of Condemned Cruxettes, Blue State Local #1" that spends most of their funds on electing a new president to replace the last one that has been crucified....When Barb was crucified for receiving 100 000 likes, the Romans had to provide a very lengthy titulus, mostly because they couldn't count beyond one thousand...
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Actually, there seems to have been a system for large numbers in Roman numberings, the apostrophus numbers, in which 100000 was written as :When Barb was crucified for receiving 100 000 likes, the Romans had to provide a very lengthy titulus, mostly because they couldn't count beyond one thousand...
Is that ancient Roman or a modern adaptation?Actually, there seems to have been a system for large numbers in Roman numberings, the apostrophus numbers, in which 100000 was written as :
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As far as it occurs to me from the sources, it goes back to Greek numerals, in which (|) actually the letter phi, stood for 1000. Later, a bracket at the beginning and the end was added, for each multiplication by 10.Is that ancient Roman or a modern adaptation?
I know the Roman system was updated in later centuries but I didn't realise they were mixing Greek and Roman numerals in the ancient world. Thanks for that. Now I can stop working on Barb's 'One Million Likes' titulus...As far as it occurs to me from the sources, it goes back to Greek numerals, in which (|) actually the letter phi, stood for 1000. Later, a bracket at the beginning and the end was added, for each multiplication by 10.
Someone had to know I would do this...Could be right, Tree! They say the first mathematicians in ancient times were women.
They needed calculus to determine the time of their fertility.
Meet the Ishango Bone, the oldest known mathematical tool, possibly used for that purpose.
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When Barb was crucified for receiving 100 000 likes, the Romans had to provide a very lengthy titulus, mostly because they couldn't count beyond one thousand...
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Bad to the Bone . Saw George in 81 in Wiesbaden, still got the ticket . Yeah.Someone had to know I would do this...
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Right with you on all of those Eulalia! As sexist, racist, sexual and degrading as possible for me please!I've clicked 'others', 'cos I'd expect something humiliating - and sexist -
like 'whore', 'slut' etc. Maybe a racial slur - a letter written by a soldier in a fort on Hadrian's Wall
referred contemptuously to 'Brittunculi', 'little Britons',
I'd be a 'putida Brittuncula', 'foul, stinking little female Brit'
Enforced public naked humiliation is also quite high on my fantasy list. In fact, I look like a fatter version of the girl at the back, with short dark hair. Her titulus is obscured by the hand of the girl in the foreground, but if it were me, what trivial offense might have lead me to be there, and for how long?My dream come true!!! I love the way the ladies are just removing their clothes, knowing that they are going to the cross.
The expressions and actions of the spectators are great ... the girl reading on the lawn ... the boy is in heaven enjoying the sights in the park.
Very intruiging for me too!I would be crucified for not mixing with the crowd and evoking opinions that are not aligned with convenient wisdom and "what everybody thinks": "asocial".
Wonderful drawings.Like so many here, that's one drawing I've spent quite some time looking at!
some more with tituli... not all of them properly attached yet...
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Hurling obscenities at you for mangling my name!?!
That happens a lot I guess. They know about it. I've heard, once we've done our time on the cross, the corrections officers will gladly hand the titulus over to us... as a reminder. So we'd still have that to wear.
Maybe you could call it a kind of, um, statement jewelry
Additionally, the fine print (you did read that didn't you?) says all public transport etc. are instructed to accept the titulus of a crucifixa as a valid ticket for any ride within the city area, if it's officially stamped 'sentence served' with the date of that day. So that's our ticket home! Naked subway ride.
I wonder if they ever do that, those judges who fill up the Hill of a Hundred Crosses...or are they completely beyond caring about all those individuals and their stories...
When Barb was crucified for receiving 100 000 likes, the Romans had to provide a very lengthy titulus, mostly because they couldn't count beyond one thousand...
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