Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:12:50

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 
>  Ted 
> 

Apparently you do.

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