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For way more fun than anyone should be legally allowed to have, find the two subtle anomalies that are not as obvious as the main joke in this cartoon:
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If this Cartoon Friday series dies a natural death, I may follow-up with Sarcasm Saturday ---- because that would be sooooooooooooo much more fun.
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Is one of the anachronisms the codex in the bottom right?
Probably. They may have started to appear by 1st Century BC but probably didn’t become common in Christian world until early 2nd A.D. or so. In any case, if the Apostle Paul had one, he would probably have sold it for big money that he needed for other things.
Thus, it is not “absolutely anachronistic”—but is unlikely, IMHO
So that leaves flagrant error that is more center stage.
The misshapen uneaten crepe on the table? No?
The knife?
My main concern was the top of both scrolls is rolled in the wrong direction. (Contrary rolling would have eventually damaged the papyrus—and the text is always protected by having the ink on the inside of the roll, more rarely on the outside.)
Just now I noticed a second fairly major anachronism: the quill pen. They were centuries away. Probably 7th or so. First century would have used reed pens on both papyrus and parchment.
Perhaps the “crepe” is a very old and damaged parchment with some Tanach text on it. One wonders how A.I. came up with that. (Or perhaps Tertius’ other duties were making coffee and rolling pizza dough.)
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Stilted arches? They were a later development, being mostly Venetian, Byzantine or Arabic.
Good call. Yes, though it is speculated that the Romans by the first century had possibly experimented with stilted arches, they were certainly not popular until approximately when quill pens came around (6th or 7th century A.D.)
How about this one?: Why, in the 1st Century, is the Coliseum apparently a ruin?
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By the way, concerning a current event-topic: I recently realized that a prominent politician was misunderstood when he made a slip of the tongue concerning Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and was no doubt reflecting on this passage:
“I had rather live
With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,
Than feed on cates and have him talk to me
In any summer house . . . "
---- Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1
Yes, he meant to say that they were feeding on cates, which are delicacies, as in fancy foods. So clearly he meant no offense.
[Note for any newcomers to Peaceful Science: Yes, that was obviously satire.]
It’s the simplest explanation. 
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