Although Aubrey and Dr. Blackgaard claim to see Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle together, Socrates actually died before Aristotle was born.
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ChandlerIt is arguable that the premise for the show is in itself a good. It doesn't make much sense that Blackgaard would take time out of his busy excavation during eps 332 and 333 to put a virus in the IS when he was going to just blow up Whit's End.
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JonathanBlackgaard and Aubrey see Julius Caesar at the Colosseum. Ceasar died in 44 B.C., over 100 years before the Colosseum was built.
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Waluigi Freak 99When Blackgaard and Aubrey are at the Colosseum, the crowd supposedly gives the gladiators "thumbs up" as the "let him live" sign and the "thumbs down" as the "kill him" sign. However, this is historically inaccurate. According to
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, "In the ancient Roman combats, when a gladiator was vanquished it rested with the spectators to decide whether he should be slain or not. If they wished him to live, they shut up their thumbs in their fists; if to be slain they turned out their thumbs."
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Waluigi Freak 99Blackgaard supposedly planted a virus in the Imagination Station, despite the fact that he was clearly "illiterate" of computers back in "The Battle", even needing reassurance of what a modem was.
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Waluigi Freak 99However, Blackgaard only SAID he was "illiterate," and that was to Whit (and possibly Eugene). Most likely this would be so they wouldn't recognize him for the menace he was.
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Ben