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fun and games
We all need a little bit of fun in our lives. Games! Sports! Hobbies! What do YOU do for enjoyment and relaxation?
Perhaps you collect belly button fluff in jam jars? Or take your pet earwig on long walks in the woods?
Or are you an AcE at the little-known sport of cHeEsEpOoDlE? You know the one – you roll up tiny balls of cheddar and flick them at a poodle? The more balls it catches in its mouth, the more points you get. tHaT’S cHeEsEpOoDlE!
Actually, if those WeIrD pastimes are all you’ve got to keep you busy, perhaps you Do have it bad! For all the brutal, UnPlEaSaNt and strange things going on in ancient Rome, the folk back then still knew how to enjoy themselves.
go blues!
go greens!
One of the most popular forms of entertainment was chariot racing.
If you love football today, it was probably on the same level as that – and people got just as
pAsSiOnAtE about their teams as you do about yours. Maybe a little more so . . . 56