Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:18:12

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf <Hooowl@hoowl.com> wrote in news:Xns96D22B5F6A880r73u67jw56nas@
62.253.170.163:

> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in news:Xns96D1E1FFF6476ndtcm@
> 68.1.17.6:
> 
>> 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 
>>> 
>> 
>> Apparently you do.
>> 
> 
>  Well they did make some wonderful art, unfortunately their literature 
> was mostly destroyed and only fragments remain.
> 

http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1FF21CCB
 Here you go this is part of the Louvre collection run your mouse of the 
pictures to get a close up, there are a few pages to look at.
 Ted



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