Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:10:54

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96D1CC9C35083v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> 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.)
>> 
> 
>  It's a pun it's not supposed to be funny it's supposed to make you 
> groan. Besides I was worried about Nick and Chaya sitting in the
> corner like that, it was like they were planning something.
>  Ted
> 
> 

We were scheming about how to take over from His Supreme Lordship
Lawson.  I shouldn't have given him all those quarters.

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