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*pun between ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Pheonix]'' and ''finish''
 
*pun between ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix Pheonix]'' and ''finish''
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*pun on Phoenicians.  Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the second Punic war (ended 241 B.C.).  The Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they sowed salt into the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again.

Revision as of 22:18, 7 July 2005

  • pun between Pheonix and finish
  • pun on Phoenicians. Carthage was a Phoenician city that was utterly destroyed by Rome in the second Punic war (ended 241 B.C.). The Romans so detested the Phoenicians that they sowed salt into the fields so that nothing would ever grow there again.