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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2010 5:27:57 GMT
RicWilly thats a great video Ineed you to demo my blades good stuff!
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Post by Kilted Cossack on Mar 9, 2010 23:41:06 GMT
The recruit, Marcus Aurelius, asked the sergeant, "Sarge, why are the grips on our swords round?"
BAM! It was funny how the sergeant's hand could move so fast and feel, not like flesh, but like wood. The recruit's face snapped sideways under the blow.
"Oh," the sergeant said. "I'm just 'Sarge' now, eh? I guess we'll be wiping our bottoms at the same latrine, eh, recruit?"
Marcus didn't say anything. He'd been in the legions two weeks, and already he knew when to just shut the Hera up.
The sergeant's face wrinkled in what would scare most citizens---and all barbarians---but Marcus already recognized it was a Legion-issue grin. "I'll tell ya, kid."
For just a moment---a fleeting moment----Marcus thought about slapping the sergeant and saying, "Oh, you just call me kid, eh?" but he knew better. He'd been in the Legion two weeks, after all. Plus he thought his hand wouldn't be mistaken for wood, and also that the sergeant would probably intercept his hand and twist it into one of those funny little bread things, like a pretzelius.
The sergeant---he had a name, you know, but what are names compared with a rank like sergeant, particularly in a Legion like this one? XIII! Forever!----the sergeant said, "I'll tell ya, kid. The grips on our swords are round because when Decius Maximus and Flavius Octavius were killing the Germanicans, their grips were round, and when we put paid to the Carthagenians, the grips we used then were round, and when you hold onto a round grip, you are holding onto the history, the honor, and the heritage of the Legion itself! Maybe it's easier for untrained rabble to have something that 'orients their hand' on the grip, but you are----or will be, if I don't kill you first---- a Legionnaire, and you know how to hold your gladius, like Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus knew how to hold a gladius."
"Any questions?"
Marcus Aurelius started to say something, but then he remembered the whip-crack of the sergeant's hand, and decided not to. The gladius had a round grip because, Hera, the gladius had a round grip.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2010 23:44:51 GMT
...... +1.
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Post by Dom T. on Mar 10, 2010 1:35:20 GMT
Hooray, RickWilly! Awesome video, sir. You make me want to buy a gladius. +1 ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2010 16:13:07 GMT
+1 to Kilted Cossack for his entertaining post. Ave!
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