Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:06:52

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in news:Xns96D1DE084C640ndtcm@
> 68.1.17.6:
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>> 
>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns96D1DC47D5B4Endtcm@ 68.1.17.6:
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:Xns96D1C5F8270393v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1C1C6CA6503v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> It's growing on me.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Favorite scenes in 2 & 3:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> a) Titus Pullo explaining women to Lucius Vorenus.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> b) Atia working out the order of suicide as the gates are
>>>>>>>> about to be broken down.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Oh, and mmmmmmmmmNiobemmmmmmmm
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Did you miss the whole Rome thread we started yesterday or is
>>>>>>> this a cunning plan to avoid my terrible Virgil based pun? 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (Mostly ignored, not having watched the episodes yet. What
>>>>>> Virgil based pun?) 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> It was a reply to Nicks question of why they don't speak Roman.
>>>>> Go on, go and read the thread and you'll see just how embaressed
>>>>> I am 
>>>>> about it
>>>>> Ted
>>>> 
>>>> Is that what that was?  You could take lessons on being dumb from
>>>> me. 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> My first thought then was another pun on the lines of.
>>>  Ee trust can teach me how to be as dumb as a Roman.
>>>  Ted
>>> 
>> 
>> <blank stare>
>> 
> 
> Etruscans, an Italian pre-Roman civilisation in the middle of modern 
> Italy eventually driven from their lands by the latin peoples. Virgil 
> thought that they were the remenants of refugees from Troy hence the tie 
> in to the Aeneas pun, but we really don't know that much about them

(It's not as funny if you explain it. Of course, this assumes it was funny 
before you explained it.)



-- 
Jim

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