Cleopatra - I have a poisonous asp.Carry On Cleo
Mark Antony - Oh, I wouldn't say that.
Cleopatra - Oh, no, no, no, no. I have. Look. [produces snake]
Cleopatra - One bite from this is enough. Mark Antony - [bites snake's head off] You're right. One bite's enough for anyone. That's shocking.
Bbc "science" sometimes gets me down. How long have historians said cleopatra's snake in basket could not have killed her? Nice but NEWS?
— mary beard (@wmarybeard) October 21, 2015
Snake in a basket? Wasn't that a menu item in Berni Inns, back in the '70s? Or something like that (gustatus similis pullus, as they say in the senior common room and the 509th Operations Group)?
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