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September 29, 2006
We're Different Part XV
Further proof that PG Wodehouse was not in fact a novelist, simply a documentarian.
A DISPUTE between two “Roman soldiers” in a 1st century bath house ended up in court when one man accused his rival of threatening to kill him with a replica helmet.
Keith Mulhearn, who is fond of dressing up as a legionnaire called Maximus Gluteus, was forced to defend his reputation after it was claimed that he had run amok in a quiet York museum.
No, don't worry about the fight, that is entirely normal I am told in these curatorial circles. No, rather that a senior museum official dressed up as a character called ' cheek bum' and, while there is a certain Steeve Reeves ambiance to all such Romanry, no one really thought very much of it.
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"To kill with a replica helmet" sounds a bit silly like shooting somebody with a replica gun but these guys go to great lengths for autheniticy so this replica differs from the original only in being a 2,000 years younger. So it was still a threat to hit with a heavy piece of metal.
Posted by: Neil Craig | Sep 29, 2006 1:33:47 PM