Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:23:23

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 

Found your Virgil pun. Marginally less groan worthy than the Etruscan one.

-- 
Jim

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