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Dec 17, 2003 | 01:00 PM

beartracks

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The collesium

So many right wing christian fundamentalist. So few lions!

Just kidding!

Dec 17, 2003 | 01:08 PM

Big Orn

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Ha! Yea, I can tell....

How do you spell kidding? : F - I - G - H - T?

What, beartracks, you getting bored putting up with all those Arizona homeless women? Gotta get away from all that!

What?

Dec 17, 2003 | 01:12 PM

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Originally posted by beartracks
So many right wing christian fundamentalist. So few lions!

Just kidding!

I thought we were electing those lions on a regular basis? Is it out of balance again?

Dec 17, 2003 | 02:18 PM

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I think the romans would have fed Moslem fundamentalists to the lions also, had there been Moslems at the time

Dec 17, 2003 | 02:31 PM

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According to the tour guides at the collisuem a few weeks ago, the romans never actually fed anyone to the lions. There were four types of games at the colliseum:

1. Gladiator vs Gladiator
2. Gladiators (emphasis plural) vs exotic animals including lions
3. animal vs animal
4. one mock naval battle during which the wooden floor of the collisium was flooded.

Dec 17, 2003 | 03:06 PM

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I think number 2 would apply to the christians to the lion thing

wasn't gladiator a term applied to anyone who was about to die in the colliseum

Dec 17, 2003 | 03:34 PM

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no. gladiators were mostly slaves. Though there were some professional gladiators. All the fighters trained at private schools to teach them how to fight. Not every slave was gladiator material. Also, each school or team had it's own tactics, uniforms and weapons. most fights were between teams that consisted of 2 dozen or more fighters at a time.

most people think the people were just fed to the lions. usually the animals were eaten after they were killed.