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[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the famous couple of Caesar and Cleopatra.

[โ€“] meliaesc@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes... I'm not sure if you were unaware or just restating the joke?

[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Julius Caesar and Cleopatra were a thing. He's the dude who had her delivered in a rolled up carpet.

[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Slightly incorrect, she snuck into his palace, she wasn't delivered.

Apparently it was actually a cloth sack but the plays and films prefer carpets so w/e

What you're missing is the fact that Julius had a lot of "things." He also thought Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were For the Boys.

As a couple Mark Antony and Cleopatra are probably a bit more famous, as it's far more dramatic (ending with their executions at the end of the civil war), they actually married, and it was by all repute actually a love match. Or at least a sincere affection match.

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -5 points 1 month ago

I don't think that's the joke, dude. Not the main joke, anyhow.