Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Things that would be different if Remus had whupped Romulus.

Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Reman Empire

Remance languages

Remeo & Juliet

Pope’s title: Bishop of Reme

Mario Lanza’s recording “Arrivederci Rema”

Remano's Macaroni Grill

The Remantic Period

Edgar Allen Poe:
“On desperate seas long wont to reem,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me heme
To glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Reme.”

Holy Reman Empire

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene ii:
“Friends, Remans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.”

There was a Brutus once that would have brook’d
The eternal devil to keep his state in Reme
As easily as a king. (Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene ii)
"What I Like About You" by the Remantics

Remano cheese

All roads lead to Reme.”

Super Bowls designated with Reman numerals

Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 145:
"While stands the Coliseum, Reme shall stand;
When falls the Coliseum, Reme shall fall;
And when Reme falls—the world."
John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chapter xi:
“Reme was not built in one day.”

G. K. Chesterton:
"Before the Reman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road."

St. Ambrose:
“Si fueris Remae, Remano vivito more.”

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Remo

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