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Julius Caesar was addressing the crowd in the Coliseum. 'Friends, Romans Countrymen, lend me your ears.
Tomorrow I take our glorious army to conquer Northern Europe and I shall start with France. We shall kill many Gauls and return victorious.' The crowd are up on their feet 'Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, hail mighty Caesar'.
In the background, Brutus turns to his mate and says 'Caesar doesn't half talk some s*** eh? He couldn't fight his way out of a wet parchment bag.' Six months later, Caesar comes back having conquered France and addresses the crowd in the Coliseum.
'Friends, Romans and Countrymen, I have returned from our campaign in France and as I promised, we killed 50,000 Gauls'.
The crowd is up on their feet again. 'Yeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeees, hail mighty Caesar'.
Brutus once again turns to his mate 'I'm sick of his bulls***. I'm off to France to check this out.' So Brutus sets off for France.
Three weeks later he comes back to Rome,just as Caesar is addressing the public in the Coliseum again. Caesar is giving his usual patter to the assembled throng, 'Friends, Romans Countrymen, tomorrow we set off for Britain and we are going to sort those buggers out!' The crowd is up on their feet.
'Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, hail mighty Caesar'
Brutus jumps up and shouts, 'Caesar, you are exposed as a liar. You told us that you had killed 50,000 Gauls in France but I've been there to check it out and you only killed 25,000!'
The crowd is stunned and all sit down in silence. Caesar gets up and looks slowly round the Coliseum then across at Brutus and says




...................... 'Brutus, you are forgetting one thing.............Away Gauls count double in Europe.'
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