# The Mark of the Beast

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [June 19, 2018, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mark-of-the-beast/816375 "2018-06-19T11:47:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mark-of-the-beast/816375/21 "2018-06-22T05:17:54Z")

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> [@Melbourne](#):
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> We all know that Sundays and Christmas are not business days. As someone (Gibbon?) pointed out to me, n ancient Rome you had to pay a priest to determine which days are “auspicious” for dong business. By “late” Rome it was codified.

There might just be a typo toward the end; but maybe not considering the Romans.😉

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2018, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mark-of-the-beast/816375/22 "2018-06-22T08:37:18Z")

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[The Romans were apparently actually rather prudish.](https://mythoughtsbornfromfire.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/rome-was-actually-a-bunch-of-prudes/) (Sorry for the cite…it’s the best linkable one I could find.)

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2018, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mark-of-the-beast/816375/23 "2018-06-23T05:11:26Z")

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> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> [The Romans were apparently actually rather prudish.](https://mythoughtsbornfromfire.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/rome-was-actually-a-bunch-of-prudes/) (Sorry for the cite…it’s the best linkable one I could find.)

I’ve seen it argued either way. Another possibility that has been suggested is that some Romans were rather prudish in public, but other Romans in private were rather not. Like modern America.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mark-of-the-beast/816375/24 "2018-06-26T01:07:33Z")

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Dibble’s first law of sociology: Some do, some don’t.

[cite](https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D1IuBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=first+rule+of+sociology+%22some+do+some+don%27t%22&source=bl&ots=26mzt12s0a&sig=M4_RMiNimjMy1Sp7bicax2KPMms&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH_IvnkPDbAhUIM8AKHdVUCoIQ6AEINTAD#v=onepage&q=first%20rule%20of%20sociology%20%22some%20do%20some%20don%27t%22&f=false)

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