Did this painting for my friend (far right) who is a huge Pittsburgh steelers fan. His favorite player is Troy Polamalu... And he likes puns. That's me in the middle.l in my favorite jumper. Thoughts??? reddit.com/gallery/kkbp9y
👍︎ 2
💬︎
👤︎ u/smike1981
📅︎ Dec 26 2020
🚨︎ report
Priam, the mythological ruler of Troy, was infamous for yelling at his subjects until he lost his voice

Perhaps that's why they called him the hoarse Trojan.

👍︎ 4
💬︎
📅︎ Sep 26 2019
🚨︎ report
Since Ilium was another name of Troy, and -ad means "story of" in Ancient Greek, the correct translation of Iliad would be:

Troy Story.

👍︎ 9
💬︎
📅︎ Feb 05 2019
🚨︎ report
I cried when my son asked me for a bookmark.

He's 14. You'd think that by now he'd know my name is Troy.

👍︎ 13
💬︎
📅︎ Feb 11 2020
🚨︎ report
A "helen" could be used as a measurement of beauty, defined as a face that could launch a thousand ships. However, one should not use a "millihelen" to mean that a face could only launch one ship...

...because you shouldn't put metric prefixes on Troy units.

👍︎ 7
💬︎
📅︎ Nov 28 2019
🚨︎ report
The Iliad

The Iliad is called that because Ilium was another name for Troy, and the -ad suffix used to mean “The Story of”. So, if we translated the title, The Iliad should actually be called Troy Story

👍︎ 7
💬︎
👤︎ u/timotab
📅︎ May 03 2019
🚨︎ report
The Greek army is very good at night

But Dawn is tough on Grease

👍︎ 40
💬︎
📅︎ Nov 09 2018
🚨︎ report
Dad joked in email from co-worker

Three of us are discussing a mundane topic through group email at work. I reply to one co-worker's comment and she writes back to the other guy in the chain " Troy, can you please weigh in"? A few minutes later, his response comes through : " Yes, last time I checked, I weighed in at about 198 or 200, but it tends to fluctuate. Hope this helps. "

👍︎ 2
💬︎
👤︎ u/dirtdogg05
📅︎ Jun 25 2014
🚨︎ report

Please note that this site uses cookies to personalise content and adverts, to provide social media features, and to analyse web traffic. Click here for more information.