by KLA2 » Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:28 pm
Just trying to be authentic. You see, Spartacus (or Bruce Buttercup as he was originally named) came from a poor and uneducated family in Sparta. Drafted by the Romans to fight in the forum, he fought under the name of his home city. Asked by a centurion whether he would rather carry a sword or a grammar book, he chose the book, but in his first fight it was cleft in twain. “Darn, darn, darn!” he shouted.
The cruel mob jeered, “Listen to Sparta cuss!”
He turned to the crowd and bewildered asked “I, cuss?”
Still, the nickname stuck.
Later he learned to use a sword, but was always confused as to the spelling of his name.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche