Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:25:38

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns96D1CF6936E523v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 

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

Well I must at least get bonus points for managing a Roman literature 
joke.
 <sigh> and people wonder why Claire doesn't want to live with me </sigh>
Ted

-- 
Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to 
hide the bodies

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