Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for September 07, 2022

Neither twin likes to learn anything. Hopefully, some day they’ll change their minds.

She’s clever, especially for someone who doesn’t know very much.

Well Gabby, remember: “He who doesn’t learn from history is doomed to repeat it.” (OK, I’m not sure how that applies here, now that I see it written out … but I thought it made sense at the time.)

And he’s thinking… ‘nine more months… nine more months….’

The Coliseum was okay until the fire of 217 ce. The empire fell hundreds of years later.

You learn Roman numerals so you can interpret the copyright date on movies.

I hope they stopped wasting time teaching kids Roman numerals.

when i started high school in RI, Latin was a required course…also our desks had graffiti from the Civil War on them

But if they teach ARABIC numerals, the terrorists will win!

Besides, how else will you which super bowl it is.

I thought it was Latin that doomed the Roman Empire, not Roman numerals? At least that was the conclusion of innumerable high school students (but not me, my high school offered it but I took German). Isn’t there a poem about that (I have no idea of the rest of it or who the author was): “First it killed the Romans, and now it’s killing me”.