Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:10:25

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya <chayaruthNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in 
news:Xns96D1EB51D3102chayaruth@204.153.244.170:

> 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 
>> 
> 
> Boy, it's going to get really interesting around here when you start
> taking that Mandarin class. 

Why?
 Ted

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