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by vincnetas 814 days ago
"On the first page where we find the map of France we see a Roman banner with S.P.Q.R. which means "Senatus Populus Que Romanus" (The senate and people of Rome). The Italian translator made a great pun about it and translated it into "Sono Pazzi questi Romani". The latter can be translated to "These Romans are crazy"."

https://www.asterix-obelix.nl/index.php?page=hjh/dos-italy.i...
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wlll 813 days ago
Unrelated, but you reminded me of this clip from The Life of Brian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjOfQfxmTLQ

It's funnier if you know that the ear-twisting Roman at the start was basically a caricature of many Latin teachers that were around when Latin was taught more widely in schools (such as when the Monty Python team were young).

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