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[–] [email protected] 2 points 35 minutes ago

(the rabbit hole was literally just the first paragraph on Wikipedia about Romania)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Is bare cave a pleonasm?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

How often do you think about the Roman Empire?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Not as much as their republic

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Does it work? I just need to sustain, not decimate

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

It's about 90% effective.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Epic self-burn?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago

I think it's called a rabbit hole because rabbits live there.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The word skeleton comes from the Ancient Greek word skeletós, which means "dried up".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Does that mean Skeletor is one who dries people?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Word skeletons are just strings of letters...I thought.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I guess it would have been faster if he just looked in the bears cave instead of a rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

It is known that bear caves typically contain libraries on etymology of country names.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

eunt domus

Spoilers for Life of Brian, which I still need to see. But seems pretty funny.

spoilerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_ite_domum

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

One of the many places that claim to be the real descendant of the Roman Empire.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The language they speak is also not a Slavic language but closer to Italian.

[–] NigelFrobisher 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

They’re smarter than the average bear for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

Those caves are an intelligent bunch of holes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Modern cave came from Old French which took it from Latin cavea