Real life Roman odours cause sickness in museum

[Luca]

Read this:<br>
www.ananova.com/news/stor...37313.html<br>
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do you know which is the museum mentioned?<br>
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Just to avoid to visit it....<br>
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[richsc]

Chester, isn't it? Another complication for Hibernicus' reconstructed Roman potty. <p>Richard Campbell, Legio XX<br>
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[Anonymous]

AHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! E EM E EM <br>
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Oh god, I was in tears....and it gets better:<br>
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"The smell was disgusting. It was like rotten cabbage but worse", supervisor Christine Turner told The Metro. She has asked specialist aroma maker Dale Air to make the smell less intens."<br>
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Specialist aroma maker....holy badoony, how do you get that job, and where can I sign up??? <br>
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"The firm, which also does dinosaur droppings, says the new smell will be softer."<br>
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HEheeheeehehe.....Just imagine: "Hello there, and what do you do for a living?"<br>
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Dale Air Employee > "Well, I make soft poo smells, no! I mean, aromas!"<br>
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E EM <p><br>
Magnus/Matt<br>
Optio<br>
Legio XXX "Ulpia Victrix" </p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=tiberiuslantaniusmagnus@romanarmytalk>tiberius lantanius magnus</A> at: 1/13/03 11:24:27 pm<br></i>

[Caius Fabius]

All those who have been to the "Dewa Experience" in Chester, England will not find this article at all amazing, only that they are trying to say it is not a naturally occuring feature of the exhibit. <br>
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Seriously, the little gift shop is not half bad, but they didn't have any Connolly posters and were short of a lot of other neat stuff in August. At least they'll get some publicity from this, and any publicity is..... well.......... ah......<br>
E EM <p>"Just before class started, I looked in the big book where all the world's history is written, and it said...." Neil J. Hackett, PhD ancient history, professor OSU, 1987</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=caiusfabius>Caius Fabius</A> <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ROMANISROMANORVM/files/C%20Fabius%201988b.jpg" BORDER=0> at: 1/16/03 6:09:58 pm<br></i>

[Luca]

This is an hard example of true and deep reenactment. <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

Actually, since roman toilets used running water I seriously doubt the smell was that bad. Not worse than a good old outhouse, I suppose, and probably even not as bad, because of the running water.<br>
Actually I am quite puzzled by modern "odor makers". We obviously do not have the same sense of smell. Last time I bought a fresh air spray "lavender scented" it reminded me of lavender made by Exxon...<br>
Not to mention the "potpourri" perfume that will get you sicker than any reconstructed roman loo... <p></p><i></i>

[Goffredo]

"We had fresh running water when you still painted yourselves blue"!<br>
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<p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/bromanarmytalk.showUserPublicProfile?gid=goffredo>goffredo</A> at: 1/17/03 4:09:12 pm<br></i>

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Yeah! E EM<br>
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Valete,<br>
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Titus Sabatinus Aquilius<br>
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"Desilite, inquit, commilitones, nisi vultis aquilam hostibus prodere" D.B.G.<br>
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[Anonymous]

Salve<br>
The Romans prided themselves on cleanliness. Their toilet facilities in the cities were a tribute to their level of technology. Whenever they could, they had running water, and part of that running water was used in sewage control.<br>
Marketplaces would have had peculiar odors, different on each day depending on what was being sold, and the combined odors for the day. If the leather merchant was boiling up a new batch of leather, and the soap maker was brewing up a new batch also, the smells would have been quite intense, not to mention toxic.<br>
However, the odors created artificial means like candles and other burning scented device, could kill a dog.<br>
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Rustius<br>
Centurio<br>
Legio XXX "Ulpia Victrix" <p></p><i></i>

[Anonymous]

My "odours" have been known to kill small animals also. <p><br>
Magnus/Matt<br>
Optio<br>
Legio XXX "Ulpia Victrix" </p><i></i>

[rekirts]

Ha, ha, reminds me of when I was younger and my family toured Britain, visiting all kinds of ruined castles. You could always tell when you were approaching the "garderobe" by the stink. Somehow I think some tourists were using it for the original purpose--otherwise the smell would have had to have been around for several hundred years. Ewe! M<br>
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