It’s always awkward when your Mom has to bring lunch for you at school.
That would really suckle.
One of the tales of Romulus and Remus is that they were abandoned in the woods and suckled by a she-wolf. There’s a famous statue of that.
Yeah, it was the “suckling” part that I remembered just before I posted this as a CIDU.
Aren’t they a little old for that to be their lunch?
And furthermore, the other kids are jealous; the wolf’s dark fur means that R&R will be presumably getting chocolate milk.
(And the cartoon as a whole gives the lie to those who claim that “Rome wasn’t built in a daycare.”)
Didn’t their wolf-mom eventually get them started on solid foods? I guess they didn’t have the dexterity to pack up some fresh kill to bring for lunch.
It’s an awkward joke. I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is. My immediate thought is they are raised by wolves so I think the joke is about bring your parents to school and bringing a wolf would be chaos … or something…. then I see the discussion is lunch and with a tad of thought I get the image they are going to suckle the wolf …….. and having had to think that far I can’t help thinking further….. so what? ….. Okay, I guess they said “awkward” and I guess some folk would think seeing two boys sucking away would be awkward but … it really wasn’t worth the effort.
“I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is.”
I suggest you do an image search of romulus and remus.
The joke works for me.
Having your mom come to school with you is always awkward.
I read the first few words, then had to go deal with something. I think I got as far as “..when Romulus and Remus…” and I finished it, in my head, as “bring their mom/wolf to school” (same as woozy). I think that would have been a better joke – yeah, they’re way too old to be suckling.
I don’t know how standard the knowledge is (my general knowledge is very much _not_ American standard), but the link between Romulus and Remus and a she-wolf was immediate, for me.
And it makes it hard to argue when they say she’s a bitch.
When I was visiting Italy, our tour guide mentioned that that Romulus and Remus were said to have been raised by a she-wolf (“lupa” in Latin). She also said that “lupa” was also a Latin slang word for “prostitute” — the implication being that it could have been a prostitute who found, nursed, and raised the abandoned future founders of Rome.
>“I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is.”
>I suggest you do an image search of romulus and remus.
Why? That won’t tell me how common the image is.
I could suggest you do an image search on Telly Savalas on Alice. That will show you that Telly Savalas did appear on Linda Lavin’s sit com. But it won’t tell you how well known or well remembered that is.
Biggest problem is imagining the boys going to the lunch room and suckling the wolf while other kids eat sandwiches ….. just isn’t funny to me.
Also referring to bringing the mother itself complete with brain, body, mobility, and maternal instruction and entire being, but treating it as though it is a sack lunch is too much of a disconnect.
‘>“I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is.”
>I suggest you do an image search of romulus and remus.
Why? That won’t tell me how common the image is. ‘
The count of hits will show you how common the image is. Unless you mean how common the *mental* image is.
Quick search for “Romulus Remus wolf” got 1.25 million results. Search for “Telly Savalas Alice TV show” got me 160,00 results (I had to add “TV show” because he was in a production of Alice in Wonderland too). So, that can suggest that Romulus and Remus and the tale of the wolf is…what…eight times more commonly known, right? In fact, the wolf is the ONLY thing I know about Romulus and Remus outside of founding Rome and the wolf suckling is the first thing to come to mind.
8 times more well-known than Telly Savalas’s appearance on the Alice Show…. Well, considering how phenomenal the smashing of the plates at Mel’s Diner was, that’s pretty impressive.
He once appeared shopping in the store I worked in during college. He also appeared – as guest – at the Concord hotel the one time Robert and I were there. (No info about either available online.) He seems to show up everywhere. :-}
Not anymore, one hopes.
So I guess that I learned today that Telly Savalas appeared on the TV sitcom “Alice”. I didn’t watch it, but I knew that the character “Mel” was played not by Telly Savalas, but by Vic Tayback. So I thought that SB’s argument was that finding search engine hits for some combination proves only that somebody made the connection online, not that the connection is real.
I, too, am among those who immediately made the connection between Romulus and Remus and the wolf as wet nurse. But I am also among those who give this gag a “meh” at best.
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It’s always awkward when your Mom has to bring lunch for you at school.
That would really suckle.
One of the tales of Romulus and Remus is that they were abandoned in the woods and suckled by a she-wolf. There’s a famous statue of that.
Yeah, it was the “suckling” part that I remembered just before I posted this as a CIDU.
Aren’t they a little old for that to be their lunch?
And furthermore, the other kids are jealous; the wolf’s dark fur means that R&R will be presumably getting chocolate milk.
(And the cartoon as a whole gives the lie to those who claim that “Rome wasn’t built in a daycare.”)
Didn’t their wolf-mom eventually get them started on solid foods? I guess they didn’t have the dexterity to pack up some fresh kill to bring for lunch.
It’s an awkward joke. I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is. My immediate thought is they are raised by wolves so I think the joke is about bring your parents to school and bringing a wolf would be chaos … or something…. then I see the discussion is lunch and with a tad of thought I get the image they are going to suckle the wolf …….. and having had to think that far I can’t help thinking further….. so what? ….. Okay, I guess they said “awkward” and I guess some folk would think seeing two boys sucking away would be awkward but … it really wasn’t worth the effort.
“I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is.”
I suggest you do an image search of romulus and remus.
The joke works for me.
Having your mom come to school with you is always awkward.
I read the first few words, then had to go deal with something. I think I got as far as “..when Romulus and Remus…” and I finished it, in my head, as “bring their mom/wolf to school” (same as woozy). I think that would have been a better joke – yeah, they’re way too old to be suckling.
I don’t know how standard the knowledge is (my general knowledge is very much _not_ American standard), but the link between Romulus and Remus and a she-wolf was immediate, for me.
And it makes it hard to argue when they say she’s a bitch.
When I was visiting Italy, our tour guide mentioned that that Romulus and Remus were said to have been raised by a she-wolf (“lupa” in Latin). She also said that “lupa” was also a Latin slang word for “prostitute” — the implication being that it could have been a prostitute who found, nursed, and raised the abandoned future founders of Rome.
>“I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is.”
>I suggest you do an image search of romulus and remus.
Why? That won’t tell me how common the image is.
I could suggest you do an image search on Telly Savalas on Alice. That will show you that Telly Savalas did appear on Linda Lavin’s sit com. But it won’t tell you how well known or well remembered that is.
Biggest problem is imagining the boys going to the lunch room and suckling the wolf while other kids eat sandwiches ….. just isn’t funny to me.
Also referring to bringing the mother itself complete with brain, body, mobility, and maternal instruction and entire being, but treating it as though it is a sack lunch is too much of a disconnect.
‘>“I don’t know how common the image of Romulus and Remus suckling a wolf is.”
>I suggest you do an image search of romulus and remus.
Why? That won’t tell me how common the image is. ‘
The count of hits will show you how common the image is. Unless you mean how common the *mental* image is.
Quick search for “Romulus Remus wolf” got 1.25 million results. Search for “Telly Savalas Alice TV show” got me 160,00 results (I had to add “TV show” because he was in a production of Alice in Wonderland too). So, that can suggest that Romulus and Remus and the tale of the wolf is…what…eight times more commonly known, right? In fact, the wolf is the ONLY thing I know about Romulus and Remus outside of founding Rome and the wolf suckling is the first thing to come to mind.
8 times more well-known than Telly Savalas’s appearance on the Alice Show…. Well, considering how phenomenal the smashing of the plates at Mel’s Diner was, that’s pretty impressive.
He once appeared shopping in the store I worked in during college. He also appeared – as guest – at the Concord hotel the one time Robert and I were there. (No info about either available online.) He seems to show up everywhere. :-}
Not anymore, one hopes.
So I guess that I learned today that Telly Savalas appeared on the TV sitcom “Alice”. I didn’t watch it, but I knew that the character “Mel” was played not by Telly Savalas, but by Vic Tayback. So I thought that SB’s argument was that finding search engine hits for some combination proves only that somebody made the connection online, not that the connection is real.
I, too, am among those who immediately made the connection between Romulus and Remus and the wolf as wet nurse. But I am also among those who give this gag a “meh” at best.