# The Ides of March
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 15, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675 "2005-03-15T18:41:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/1 "2005-03-15T18:41:04Z")
The Ides of March are come.
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### Author:  [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/2 "2005-03-15T18:58:17Z")
Yep.
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/3 "2005-03-15T19:06:27Z")
We need **Brutus** in this thread.
My family always tells eachother to “beware the ides of March” on Mar. 15th. It’s kind of a morbid tradition, now that I think about it.
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### Author:  [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/4 "2005-03-15T19:11:54Z")
“Yes; but they are not gone.”
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### Author:  [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/5 "2005-03-15T19:28:02Z")
I once played Brutus in a re-enactment of the assassination scene. I wore a pink bedsheet and stabbed Caesar with a plastic butter knife. 😃
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/6 "2005-03-15T19:42:53Z")
> [@dotchan](#):
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> I wore a pink bedsheet and stabbed Caesar with a plastic butter knife.
That’s a sig if I ever saw one.
🙂
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/7 "2005-03-15T19:46:38Z")
Well I’m the friendly stranger in the black sedan
Won’t you hop inside my car
I’ve got pictures, candy, I’m a lovable man
And I can take you to the nearest star…
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### Author:  [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/8 "2005-03-15T19:55:36Z")
[Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr/Bob Kennedy]
The Ides of March! Why, that’s today!
[/CWWS/BK]
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### Author:  [@St\_Ides](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St_Ides)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/9 "2005-03-15T20:11:46Z")
I guess this is my day.
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/10 "2005-03-15T20:36:21Z")
“Ackt”
::Someone stabs Scott::
Not you, not you. I can’t believe it.
“thud”
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/11 "2005-03-15T21:07:00Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#):
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> “Ackt”
> ::Someone stabs Scott::
Out! Out! Damned Scott
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### Author:  [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/12 "2005-03-15T21:49:25Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#):
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> [Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr/Bob Kennedy]
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> The Ides of March! Why, that’s today!
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> [/CWWS/BK]
Friends, Romans, countrymen: Lend me your rears!
I come to bury Caesar. So let’s bury him, and get on with **my** play, _Antony and Cleopatra_.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2005, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/13 "2005-03-15T23:06:14Z")
_vomits on people in the front row_
(I have the script from that play!)
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### Author:  [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/14 "2005-03-16T00:27:36Z")
> [@Kythereia](#):
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> _vomits on people in the front row_
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> (I have the script from that play!)
Hee! I was Jess in that play! I have the script, too, here in my pants…it’s been retitled “I Love My Willy,” and, if you don’t mind, I’d like to whip it our for you…RIGHT NOW!
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### Author:  [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/15 "2005-03-16T01:26:56Z")
I was going to post this on Slashdot . . . but for mine own part-- it was all geek to me.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/16 "2005-03-16T16:23:54Z")
[I’m your vehicle, baby!](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_ides_of_march/vehicle.html)
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### Author:  [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/17 "2005-03-16T16:47:53Z")
> [@Helena](#):
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> “Yes; but they are not gone.”
They’re gone now.
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### Author:  [@RitzyRae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitzyRae)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/18 "2005-03-16T17:06:43Z")
I read an article yesterday that said the soothsayer wasn’t saying that the Ides of March were always something to be feared, but that the Ides of March is a Roman way of saying March 15. He was just telling Caesar to beware of that day because shit was going down.
Anyway, it was very intersting. The Roman calendar is … difficult with its Kalends, Nones and Ides. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/19 "2005-03-16T17:30:26Z")
And now we present Titus Andronicus as… a cooking show!
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### Author:  [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ides-of-march/294675/20 "2005-03-16T19:44:44Z")
My book has nothing to do with Godzilla!
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