Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:26:47

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

> Chaya wrote:
> 
>> Jim Larson wrote:
>> 
>>> Chaya wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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. 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Lawson? LAWSON?!?
>>> 
>> 
>> D'oh!!!!  You know, 'R' and 'W' are very close on the keyboard...
>> 
> 
> Rell, ofcouwse they awe. 
> 

Guess I'm the first one up against the wall.  And your only funding
source, too.  Such a short-lived rule.

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