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[Labster]

For once, one of these historical image memes is a total understatement.  The production of The Emperor's New Groove was deeply weird.  It includes things like being forced to release early due to a Happy Meal product placement deal.  Oh, and the documentary on the making of the film that Sting's wife made, locked so deeply inside the Disney Vault, it's a vault inside the special vault they use for Song of the South.  If you have a while, give this a read: ‘We’ll Never Make That Kind of Movie Again’:  An oral history of The Emperor’s New Groove

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[robkelk]

Wikipedia disagrees with this one.

Salarium

Similarly, the Latin word salarium linked employment, salt, and soldiers, but the exact link is not very clear. More modern sources maintain instead that although Roman soldiers were typically paid in coin, the word salarium is derived from the word sal (salt) because at some point a soldier's salary may have been an allowance for the purchase of salt or the price of having soldiers conquer salt supplies and guard the Salt Roads (Via Salaria) that led to Rome. However, there is no ancient evidence for either of these hypotheses.

Some people even claim that the word soldier itself comes from the Latin sal dare (to give salt), but mainstream sources disagree, noting that the word soldier more likely derives from the gold solidus, with which soldiers were known to have been paid

There's a big difference between "being paid in salt" and "being given an allowance to buy salt".

EDIT: Also, "white gold" is gold alloyed with a white metal, often but not always silver. (Add some copper to a gold/silver alloy and you get "green gold", also called "electrum"... which is where Gary Gygax got the name for that type of coin in D&D. And Now You Know.) It has nothing to do with salt.

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[Bob Schroeck]

Wow.  A reasonably accurate one -- at least the first two sentences.  Of course, it leaves out (probably in interests of space) that the "doors" are maybe a foot by a foot in size (the inset image is of it but gives no sense of scale), and are probably better called "hatches".  The third is... less accurate, as they drilled through the "door", passed a camera through and found a second door behind it, drilled through that, and basically found rough stone.  As of the article I found about it by one of the archeologists, they intend to excavate the shaft behind it to help them determine if it was for a symbolic/religious purpose (a passage to the netherworld for the king), or something practical.

[Norgarth]

Wow.  A reasonably accurate one -- at least the first two sentences.  Of course, it leaves out (probably in interests of space) that the "doors" are maybe a foot by a foot in size (the inset image is of it but gives no sense of scale), and are probably better called "hatches".  The third is... less accurate, as they drilled through the "door", passed a camera through and found a second door behind it, drilled through that, and basically found rough stone.  As of the article I found about it by one of the archeologists, they intend to excavate the shaft behind it to help them determine if it was for a symbolic/religious purpose (a passage to the netherworld for the king), or something practical.

I've started double checking some of the wilder claiming ones (I tossed 2 last night because I found they were based on pretty flimsy reasoning), but didn't look further into this one because I remembered the anticlimactic TV special where they drilled thru the first door.  They did say it was an airshaft which should indicate the doors are on the small side. didn't know they'd gotten around to drilling thru the 2nd door.  Technically they were right though, the door still hasn't been 'opened'

 

[robkelk]

That's the perfect answer to the "Stop Having Fun" Guys.

* robkelk consults TinEye

Here's the original:

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this last one is a comparison of a human skeleton to a gorilla's

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[Bob Schroeck]

That's the perfect answer to the "Stop Having Fun" Guys.

I was thinking it would make a great page image...

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[robkelk]

That's the perfect answer to the "Stop Having Fun" Guys.

I was thinking it would make a great page image...

The trope namer would make a better image, I think.

[Bob Schroeck]

There is that.

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I recognize 14 of the references in that last pic, but I'm unsure what the 'Nov 5 1955', '108 minutes', and 'Mondoshawans' are references to

[classicdrogn]

Nov 5 1955 was when Doc Brown invented the Flux Capacitor

[Norgarth]

Nov 5 1955 was when Doc Brown invented the Flux Capacitor

ah yes.   that and the '108 minutes' one seemed familiar but I couldn't place them

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