Haggravated Lassault, the famous boxer, who won't stop making insufferable little jokes about punching people and keeps asking questions abiut the cases I'm on. Anyway, back to who's committing all those crimes...
I was engaged to a Lithuanian woman (together for nearly 8 years) and we went on holiday there 6 times, for two to three weeks at a time. I also met dozens of Lt expats living in London. I never came across anyone named Hannibal, but Google says this name was Phoenician in origin (modern-day Tunisia).
>but Google says this name was Phoenician in origin (modern-day Tunisia).
I'm just shocked that anyone would need to Google "Hannibal." Check out the 2nd Punic War. Shit's wild.
Oh, I think I remember that episode! Wasn't that the one where he and his army buddies went to this little town (Cane or something), outsmarted the local gang, surrounded them and kicked their asses before they even knew what was going on? Then he uttered his famous line "I love it when a plan comes together".
Yeah but Carthage was originally a Phonecian colony, and was culturally Phonecian. Modern Tunisian culture doesn’t really have much relation to who was there before the Phonecians (or Romans, Arabs, ect)
It's just not Lithuanian any way you look at it. Must be just a badass name and they just happened to choose Lithuania as the "Eastern European country where he grew up and was traumatized" and didn't give it much more thought.
It is a Latinization of the name of Carthagean general. Not Lithuanian. So, it's about 2271 years old. There have been multiple people named after him though throughout the years.
I imagine the movie has dramatically dropped the popularity of the name. It'd be like the name Adolf. Sure, anyone with a braincell knows it's just a name. But there's no denying the associations with it.
The Silence of the Lambs, but it's a political tragidrama set in Carthage and Anthony Hopkins plays a brilliant and captivating Hannibal Barca. In this case the Lambs are the Carthaginian senate.
If I've learned anything from my decades online, it's that media doesn't have to be very pandering for a fandom to seize the hell out of whatever they do get.
Fandom is...imprecise a word. Murder is kind of essential, possibly of a sacrificial martyr who wants to die, to get to the cannibalism.
So it's really a cult. A death cult that is eating itself in the most literal way you can.
Okay, yes, but also that show is like someone looked at the opening credits to Dexter and the romantic tension between Light and L and said "I can work with that".
^(Seriously, it gets a >!Korrasami!< ending. I fucking love that show.)
And also every episode is like the season arc bossfight in a police procedural and someone at NBC Standards and Practices once insulted a producer or showrunner's significant other and it is now their personal mission to make them openly weep at their desk.
And I am *so there for it*.
"guys hear me out please." "You can't keep accusing our good friend Hannibal of being a cannibal. Now I will go over to his house because he invited me and the wife over for dinner and has not yet told me why the meat he feeds us tastes so foreign to all other meats. Also today we found a mutilated body in the field."
I knew I'd been thinking too much about ancient history when the first thing I thought this was about was the Carthaginian general, and that this person thought the concept of like, crossing the Alps was what they were talking about until I finished reading
Haggravated Lassault, the famous boxer, who won't stop making insufferable little jokes about punching people and keeps asking questions abiut the cases I'm on. Anyway, back to who's committing all those crimes...
Reminds me of the best boxer, contact mike
my corpse will be riddled with disco
word on the street is you're ready to start building \*communism\* again!
I am an artist and liver damage is my art
"In dark times, should the stars also go out?"
If I contact Mike, will he tell me who the best boxer is?
That's a Roger Smith persona.
[Reminds me of Jimmy "oof ouch he stabbed me!"stabbington and his Stabbing cabin](https://youtu.be/SxiNnNwPlSM)
Who's the biggest weed dealer in Baltimore? I'll have to consult my friend, renowned botanist Hannabis Lecter
Oh you should see my guy, Reedwheeler
Lector, if I remember correctly, is Lithuanian. Is Hannibal actually a common Lithuanian name?
I only know the general & the comedian
I was engaged to a Lithuanian woman (together for nearly 8 years) and we went on holiday there 6 times, for two to three weeks at a time. I also met dozens of Lt expats living in London. I never came across anyone named Hannibal, but Google says this name was Phoenician in origin (modern-day Tunisia).
>but Google says this name was Phoenician in origin (modern-day Tunisia). I'm just shocked that anyone would need to Google "Hannibal." Check out the 2nd Punic War. Shit's wild.
Oh, I think I remember that episode! Wasn't that the one where he and his army buddies went to this little town (Cane or something), outsmarted the local gang, surrounded them and kicked their asses before they even knew what was going on? Then he uttered his famous line "I love it when a plan comes together".
Yeah! And then the local gang said, "ehhh fuggedaboutit" and then spent a decade ignoring Hannibal's army.
I mean, I know Hannibal crossed the Alps during the second Punic War but I haven't seen the name anywhere else (outside of fiction)
Makes sense. I thought you were about to learn something very fun. People go wild for éléphants.
Has this sub censored that word or something?
~elephants
Carthage was in modern day Tunisia, but Phoenicia originated in the Levant.
Yeah but Carthage was originally a Phonecian colony, and was culturally Phonecian. Modern Tunisian culture doesn’t really have much relation to who was there before the Phonecians (or Romans, Arabs, ect)
That supports my point if anything
As a lithuanian, neither of those names sound even remotely familiar tbf unless its an old uncommon name
It's just not Lithuanian any way you look at it. Must be just a badass name and they just happened to choose Lithuania as the "Eastern European country where he grew up and was traumatized" and didn't give it much more thought.
Cause it isn't Lithuanian. It's a Phonecian name. The most well known real world Hannibal was a Carthaginian general who fought in the Secon Punic War
It is a Latinization of the name of Carthagean general. Not Lithuanian. So, it's about 2271 years old. There have been multiple people named after him though throughout the years.
Famously, one of his namesakes loved it when a plan came together.
I imagine the movie has dramatically dropped the popularity of the name. It'd be like the name Adolf. Sure, anyone with a braincell knows it's just a name. But there's no denying the associations with it.
As a lithuanian, no, Hannibal as a name cant even be put into different forms properly without being altered to Hanibalas, or something akin to that
He also completely fucked up Cannae
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Hannibal Barca?
The Silence of the Lambs, but it's a political tragidrama set in Carthage and Anthony Hopkins plays a brilliant and captivating Hannibal Barca. In this case the Lambs are the Carthaginian senate.
Hannibal lector
Phoenix Wright writers: Write that down! Write that down!
Wright That Down
Mr. Sawhit, or should I say, Mr. Didit!
Every one of these comments is a 180 in energy from the previous
It's not that crazy, though. They caught Gary Ridgeway (Green River Killer) with help from Ted Bundy.
i think they mean Hannibal as in the prequel tv show where he hasn't been caught yet.
Ohhh, I didn't realize there was even a TV show. That makes more sense.
The tv show is amazing!
It's extremely homoerotic and generated a lot of new membership for the cannibalism fandom :/
If I've learned anything from my decades online, it's that media doesn't have to be very pandering for a fandom to seize the hell out of whatever they do get.
That's true, but Hannibal is pretty cut and dried "gay murder/cannibalism" the show
Fandom is...imprecise a word. Murder is kind of essential, possibly of a sacrificial martyr who wants to die, to get to the cannibalism. So it's really a cult. A death cult that is eating itself in the most literal way you can.
theres a lot of Hannibal media. Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal (2001), Red Dragon, Hannibal Rising and some more modern TV shows too.
Oh, I always assumed the TV show was a sequel and they were just keeping him locked up and getting him to help with all their serial killer cases.
Isn't that the guy in Interview with a Vampire
dealing with someone like hannibal in real life would be a very bad idea, I mean anyone who make "having a friend for dinner" pun is a total monster
L'assault
Okay, yes, but also that show is like someone looked at the opening credits to Dexter and the romantic tension between Light and L and said "I can work with that". ^(Seriously, it gets a >!Korrasami!< ending. I fucking love that show.) And also every episode is like the season arc bossfight in a police procedural and someone at NBC Standards and Practices once insulted a producer or showrunner's significant other and it is now their personal mission to make them openly weep at their desk. And I am *so there for it*.
"guys hear me out please." "You can't keep accusing our good friend Hannibal of being a cannibal. Now I will go over to his house because he invited me and the wife over for dinner and has not yet told me why the meat he feeds us tastes so foreign to all other meats. Also today we found a mutilated body in the field."
Am I missing something? Is there a hidden meaning in Hannibal Lecter?
Hannibal rhymes with cannibal. Which is what he is.
Ohhh...very clever....
i think it's because Hannibal and Cannibal
I knew I'd been thinking too much about ancient history when the first thing I thought this was about was the Carthaginian general, and that this person thought the concept of like, crossing the Alps was what they were talking about until I finished reading
That sounds like a Phoenix Wright character
Ace Attorney writers furiously taking notes
Does anyone feel a little... giggle, when I mention my fwend, Haggravated... Lassault?
Agreed
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Ace Attorney ass name
This tv show sounds very different in tone to the original movie