Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:27:47

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya <chayaruthNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in 
news:Xns96D1EEF488457chayaruth@204.153.244.170:

> weirdwolf wrote:
> 
>> 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
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>>>> 
>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:Xns96D1E1FFF6476ndtcm@ 68.1.17.6:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
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>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 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. 
>>> 
>> 
>> 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>  
> 
> And yet she stays...
> 

 Amazing isn't it? 
Did I tell you she was almost deaf in one ear.
 Ted


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