The Super Bowl and Roman numerals: a match made in Kansas City

[TribalElder]

So the super bowl got its name from one of Clark's toys

Roman numerals are cool but the L is gonna make people butt hurt.

[Buns]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

So the super bowl got its name from one of Clark's toys

Roman numerals are cool but the L is gonna make people butt hurt.

I hope not. Why would people be butt hurt? Does anyone call it super bowl ecks el vee eye eye? I think most say super bowl forty seven.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

Roman numerals are cool but the L is gonna make people butt hurt.

LOL WUT?

[TribalElder]

Originally Posted by Virtua Chief

I hope not. Why would people be butt hurt? Does anyone call it super bowl ecks el vee eye eye? I think most say super bowl forty seven.

Originally Posted by htismaqe

LOL WUT?

I think that when we get to 50 aka L most people will go full dumb dumb and not realize that L represents roman numerals and the complaints will flow. we shall see in a few years.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by TribalElder

I think that when we get to 50 aka L most people will go full dumb dumb and not realize that L represents roman numerals and the complaints will flow. we shall see in a few years.

Hard core Star Trek fans who are old enough will probably have heard this story, but apparently when they were doing marketing test runs or whatever they do for new shows for Deep Space Nine, they initially had the show named "Deep Space IX".

And people were like "'Deep Space ick?' Why the hell are you calling it that? That's a dumb name."

So yeah, "NINE", not "IX".





*note, could be urban legend, but I remember hearing about that very shortly after the show started.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

Hard core Star Trek fans who are old enough will probably have heard this story, but apparently when they were doing marketing test runs or whatever they do for new shows for Deep Space Nine, they initially had the show named "Deep Space IX".

And people were like "'Deep Space ick?' Why the hell are you calling it that? That's a dumb name."

So yeah, "NINE", not "IX".





*note, could be urban legend, but I remember hearing about that very shortly after the show started.

So Lamar's naming idea for "Bowl" was just lame, and his idea for Roman Numerals was just dumb. What a creative genius that man was.

[Crush]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

So Lamar's naming idea for "Bowl" was just lame, and his idea for Roman Numerals was just dumb. What a creative genius that man was.

You need to see a proctologist asap.