Robert Viagas

When they would come back into Rome, they would have a parade and they called it a triumph.

That's where we get the word triumphant from.

They called it a triumph and the

The general would march at the front.

Sometimes if they had defeated an enemy, the enemy would be dragged along in chains.

And people were required to express their approval and excitement by banging their hands together.

Now, if you think about it,

It's an odd way to show that you like something, just banging your hands together.

But people started to do it and it came to be applied to other things.

And gradually it became the way that people expressed their approval of things.

Similar with booing.

Things happened early on and there were different ways of booing.

People have now kind of come to accept that yelling boo is the way to express disapproval.

But if you think about it,

I mean, it seems so natural, but if you think about it, it's actually kind of a weird way to express disapproval.

Yeah, but what would be better?

Because it seems to work now.

Well, I'll tell you, for a long time, and you've probably seen this in old movies and things, people would express their displeasure by throwing things at the actors, literally throwing things at the actors.

Even in the days of Shakespeare, when he had what they called the groundlings, the people who would stand right in front of the stage, and they would sell them hazelnuts and cockle shells.

That was the snacks that they would eat.