...and gentlemen - this is a very fine thread, but if we could adjust the Roman/Rhino ratio perhaps 5% more towards the Rhinos, it would be about perfect.

How about a honey badger video, sort of the drug-crazed cousin african savanna version of the wolverine, getting bit by a king cobra and shaking it off like he drank too much bad whiskey:

The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall)

how about the roman emperor who appointed a rhino as a senator?

wait, that was a horse. oh well, i tried.

Reminds me of one of my favorite political one-liners:

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, upon being told that President-Elect Bill Clinton was considering appointing Hillary as Attorney General, remarks, "they say Caligula appointed his horse consul of Rome."

Never before or since has anything approaching the same proportion of inhabitants of any area shown itself capable of work of the highest excellence.

I can't help but be skeptical about a statement like this.

I can't help but be skeptical about a statement like this.

It's like they're straight-up trolling residents of the Bronx.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, upon being told that President-Elect Bill Clinton was considering appointing Hillary as Attorney General, remarks, "they say Caligula appointed his horse consul of Rome."

Rehnquist is very far from the first person to make such a comment. It's such an old line that these days, in order to impress anyone, you have to know the name of the horse. (Incitatus)

Rome related, it is rather ironic that the Roman / Byznatium presence in North Africa's final end was a last stand in.... Carthage. (Against the Arab / Berbers)

Hannibal must have gotten a chuckle from that beyond the grave.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist, upon being told that President-Elect Bill Clinton was considering appointing Hillary as Attorney General, remarks, "they say Caligula appointed his horse consul of Rome."

The proper response to that would be "and they say that Nixon appointed his horse's ass to the Supreme Court"