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Was Rome built in a day?
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untermensche
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Which Rome are you talking about?
The Rome I can go and experience?
Not likely built in a day.
The Rome I can go and experience?
Not likely built in a day.
The Rome? Just Rome, was it built in a day?
Now as much as you like to Roam, I have you built in a day otherwise you were just a perception.
untermensche
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The Rome?
Never heard of it.
Never heard of it.
WAB
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Good luck, none!
steve_bank
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The saying is 'Rome was not built in a day'. Meaning of course things take time.
ideologyhunter
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It's a cliche, and it's as old as the hills.
untermensche
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A tiny bit of research shows at least as old as from 1190.
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Assuming the builders acted like contractors around here, they presumably started up at about 11PM and knocked off around 6AM. So Rome was mostly built at night.
(All times PST.)
steve_bank
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Is that BC or AD?
DBT
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Rome is said to be eternal. Being eternal, Rome has always existed, a perceived beginning or an end being nothing more than an illusion of the mind ...... 
ideologyhunter
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That's what I thought of every statistics course I ever took. Eternity turned out to be relative (in the mean.)
WAB
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Way less than a day, actually. Z'pfhuyhlk ` nnd a cnowcknohq_h~ uhxx `, (trans: One whose shadow has not enough bumps), from the planet Ocquonoqtua, designed Rome in about one eighth of a second, Earth-time. They were later sent to detention for using an archaic pronoun in class.
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steve_bank
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Stonehenge was constructed in a few days by extraterrestrials using advanced technology, I saw it in a cable show. Same with Egyptian pyramids.
Could not possibly have been built by humans of the time. An established fact yet there are those in science who do not accept the obvious fact.
Swammerdami
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As long as we're throwing around clichés, don't forget the ancient proverb about roads:
(Wait a minute; this was supposed to be about "Rome." Did Google F*** up?)
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Nope! It's gone over quite some twists and turns over the centuries. You can find a consise starting summary here:
Story of cities #2: Rome wasn't planned in a day … in fact it wasn't planned at all
Story of cities #2: Rome wasn't planned in a day … in fact it wasn't planned at all
WAB
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- William Shatner
If the legend can be given any credit, Romulus founded the city of Rome when he plowed a furrow around the Palentine Hill. This couldn't have taken more than an hour, two at the most.
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Well, yeah, no. It took him about thirty minutes, actually, with that ancient relic of a digging trencher that that helium-sucking hippie with the puffy shirt and long hair brought back from 2124 in his time machine (after stopping in 1971 to help record Close to the Edge) to give to Rommy so he could speed things up. Everybody knows that. Sheeeesh.