CRY HAVOC! AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!

[Gilbutson]

9 hours ago, Number5 said:

 

All of that for a soccer game?!?! Can’t fault them for forcing something exciting and badass into such a boring sport.

[glenn__davis]

3 minutes ago, Gilbutson said:

All of that for a soccer game?!?! Can’t fault them for forcing something exciting and badass into such a boring sport.

Rugby actually.

[Gilbutson]

Just now, glenn__davis said:

Rugby actually.

Ah. Makes much more sense then.

[emmett16]

10 hours ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

That's called a Haka dance. It's an ancient pre-war dance to intimidate rivals. This is from the culture of certain Polynesian native tribes, and in this case it's famous in New Zealand. (Mostly the from the heritage of the Mali).

New Zealand's soccer team performs it before their matches.

Does the soccer team do it also? I thought it was just the rugby team.  Fantastic tradition that rivals Baltimore fans screaming O before games.   
 

Edit: I failed to read the entire thread…..again

Edited March 29 by emmett16

[Number5]

11 hours ago, Billy F-Face3 said:

(Mostly the from the heritage of the Mali).

Maori

[byrdz]

5 hours ago, Gilbutson said:

All of that for a soccer game?!?! Can’t fault them for forcing something exciting and badass into such a boring sport.

You don’t get out much if you thought these were soccer players. rugby players are built like tanks. 

Edited March 29 by byrdz

[Billy F-Face3]

2 hours ago, Number5 said:

Maori

Ah yes. Thank you. 2 corrections I needed to make is that it was supposed to be Maori, not Mali. (Mali is in Africa.) And Rugby, not soccer.

As for the time line that Can corrected, I'll just admit that I didn't know that history trivia.

[Jim'sKid26]

It's from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. It's from a speech by Marc Antony and comes when Julius Caesar lies dead, having been assassinated by a group of conspiratorial senators in 44 BC. So perhaps there is some irony here given recent events with Orioles leadership. 

The full speech is:

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy—
Which, like dumb mouths, do open their ruby lips
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue—
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men.
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy.
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds,
And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Antony was part of the Second Triumvirate that hunted down Caesar's assassins and eventually ruled Rome as a dictatorship. 

I hope that gives a bit of context. 

Edited March 29 by Jim'sKid26

[pdiddy]

[interloper]

I prefer King Theoden:

Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered!
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!

#nerdalert

Edited March 29 by interloper

[Jim'sKid26]

40 minutes ago, interloper said:

I prefer King Theoden:

Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered!
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!

#nerdalert

Churchill, perhaps?

"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy."

[pdiddy]

6 minutes ago, Jim'sKid26 said:

Churchill, perhaps?

"We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy."

Churchill is almost always the right answer.

[pdiddy]

Better with orange tongue - “WE FIGHT! That is how we win and that is how we die.”

[Satyr3206]

2 hours ago, Jim'sKid26 said:

It's from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. It's from a speech by Marc Antony and comes when Julius Caesar lies dead, having been assassinated by a group of conspiratorial senators in 44 BC. So perhaps there is some irony here given recent events with Orioles leadership. 

The full speech is:

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy—
Which, like dumb mouths, do open their ruby lips
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue—
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men.
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy.
Blood and destruction shall be so in use,
And dreadful objects so familiar,
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war,
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds,
And Caesar’s spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Antony was part of the Second Triumvirate that hunted down Caesar's assassins and eventually ruled Rome as a dictatorship. 

I hope that gives a bit of context. 

I hadn't read that in a while. Thanks.

[Philip]

1 hour ago, pdiddy said:

Churchill is almost always the right answer.

There are three things I like about being on an Ital­ian cruise ship,” Churchill sup­pos­edly says. “First, their cui­sine is unsur­passed. Sec­ond, their ser­vice is superb. And then, in time of emer­gency, there is none of this non­sense about women and chil­dren first.

 

you are correct!