Sorry Ter' but the whole point of the jokes that led on was that Laughton said "ohms". You wanna get the spuds out of your ears :-)
In SPARK-acus, the slaves were re-VOLT-ing against the CURRENT rulers of R-OHM.
>>>...There was a scene where Charles Laughton (his character, a senator of rome) gave ohms to a peasant...
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>>It's
Alms (proonounced "arms") anyway!
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>Leave it to a Englishman to correct my
english.
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>Maybe he gave the peasant voltage resistance units:)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.