They get sent by the Romans to defend Hadrian’s Wall.
The decline of the Roman Empire can be traced in how reliant the army became on recruiting clowns to make up for the decline in Roman citizens’ willingness to participate in military service. - Edward Gibbon
“Septus, those shoes are big enough to be filled with feet four times larger than your feet! Why do you wear such comically oversized footwear?”
“Because thousands of years from now they’ll dig them up and think “By Iovis Optimus Maximus, this man had the largest dick in history!””
See this, Flavius, when the Picts see this overlarge pair of shoes, they will think we have a giant in our ranks and flee whence they came!
Definitely the Roman plan
They were for the horses.
romans were down to clown
I have a vewy good fwiend in Wome called Biggus Feetus
FEET PICS FEET PICS FEET PICS
FEET PICTS*
excellent pun.
Yahweh
The woo woo loons who get off on the giant Nephilim conspiracies gonna love this one.
turns out it was just regular sized people with giant feet (and
)
“ah kneew ah left them somewherre theraboouts”
you got big feet
have to build a wall due to defeat
Cobbler marketing materials, or was Flavius just expelled from the village after his neighbors had enough of his weird oversized shoe collection?
Size 14 isn’t too out there… I was hoping for literal giant sizes. Maybe having v tall family skews my vision though…
Or they’re just the ones that died. The samml footed kept their shoes and lived to tell the tale.
big shoes!!!
Actually semi related reminds me of one of the funnier Discworld moments imo…
‘No sense in bein’ bashful about goin’ bald, said Ridcully evenly. ‘Anyway, you know what they say about bald men, Dean.’
‘Yes, they say, “Look at him, he’s got no hair,”’ said the Lecturer of Recent Runes.
Stretch sandals
