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Although if it wasn't for them (and the Vikings and the French) you'd be typing in an oak grove naked and covered with blue paint!

Why blue paint?

The original Brits were called Woads or something like that (I'm probably wrong about the name). The first invaders said they painted themselves blue and danced around oak trees naked. Worshipped the trees and the mistletoe that grew on them. Built mounds and Stonehenge and all that lot.

Hmmmm, I wonder how you would look naked and painted blue.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Bloody aqueducts!

Oh invaders say anything to make us look bad...

Oh I'm certain you lot were a bunch of brave, inventive warriors.


What happened?

I don't know. My genes survived, that's all I care about...

they roamed.

woads- yes, they're called woads. look up douglas adams's 'the salmon of doubt'

you know, mistletoe used to be associated with dung and branches, and not so much with kisses...

Actually, mistletoe used to be more associated with the genitals than with kissing...

Yer dying to tell us so go ahead...

You only have to look at them to see why cl

What, green and shiny?

Mistletoe berries are WHITE! (What kind of mistletoe occurs in Canada?) and when they are broken open, the insides are sticky with little tiny seeds...geddit?