Late to the thread, here, but I would be grateful if you could point me to the origin of that bit.
Thank you, Dan
I assume it was this SNL skit.
That’s it exactly. Great work.
But what is scary is now different and flaky my recollection is. Perhaps I saw only a later excerpt, but probably not. Before reading your script cite I remembered the whole skit as just the surprise pizza delivery, the Centurion’s “What!, I ordered no pizza!” confusion, the Lieutenant’s “Perhaps they mean to vex us.”, and the Centurion’s “find their parents and have them put to death.”
Upon reading the script, though, the rest is ever so vaguely familiar. Apparently decades of repetition of my favorite lines largely erased the recollection of everything else.
Human memory be weird. Or at least mine be weird. YMMV = your memory may vary. 
Twas ever such. “A bit of ‘How’s your father’” is slang for sex for reasons apparently related to a century-old comedians’ catchphrase
Totally news to me, but thanks for a fascinating tour of something totally unexpected.
A wise lady once told me, “Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The less that’s left, the faster it goes.”
And the more grateful you are for it.
Just don’t come up short sitting on the throne.
There wasn’t a poll option for “Pretty much just when I see this thread title.”
Sound like a lot of work for very little payoff. I can’t see why they bother.
Sounds to me like someone is trying to justify their Covid shopping behaviour….
(Perhaps not.)
I think about it less than the people who are in charge of the “On this Day” Box on the Wikipedia home page which seems to include some forgotten event from the Byzantine era of the Roman Empire about half the time.
Sometimes a disastrous loss to the forces of Islam, sometimes a false dawn of a victory, sometimes an Emperor getting blinded and mutilated by his successor.
Or as we’d call it today, Tuesday.
The meme culture, or TikTok?
TikTok is honestly a very well designed app. I use it occasionally - my sisters-in-law send me funny videos on there, as do one or two other friends; and around once a month I’ll scroll through some videos. It does a scary good job of personalizing your experience (so I get a mix of informational videos, skits, funny animal videos, and some wildcards thrown in; my sister-in-law gets totally different content that I never see, like makeup tutorials).
If you mean the meme culture - I doubt it feels lile work to those who are immersed in it. Memes convey a lot of ideas and emotions all at once, it’s probably less effort for a bigger dopamine hit compared to aending each other poems (or message board posts).
Before this thread popped up, I didn’t think about the Roman Empire all that much, maybe when it was a topic on The Rest Is History podcast or a movie. But since the thread has been active I think about every day if even just for a few seconds. 
I don’;t really think about the Roman Empire (or the Greeks, for that matter) all that often. And I write about mythology, dammit!
Then maybe you need to cut down on the amanita muscaria?
I wonder how much overlap there is between those obsessed with the Roman Empire and those of Italian heritage?
Nevertheless, more thought for food.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/arts/roman-empire-women-tiktok.html
Weekly, at least.
I don’t know the reasons for the supposed truism about “many men,” but I enjoy the Latin language, and it’s very common for me to encounter some reference to a Roman ruler or other historical figure just in browsing the internet.
Not especially knowledgeable about the Roman empire, except for fabulous contemporary bits from Suetonius and others, but, you know, the greatest hits. And, Mel Brooks, perhaps.
Way to be relevant, dad. Maybe you could make a roman empire reference next?
