Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:30:37

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
> news:Xns96D1CBE8021173v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:
> 
>> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> (Was the other pun as lame as that one?)
>> 
>> ((What rhymes with Tarquinius Superbus?))
>> 
> 
> Well seeming as nobody else is going to ask..<sigh>
> What rhymes with Tarquinius Superbus?

I don't know. I was trying to come up with a counter-pun to Ee trust can. 

(T.S. = last of the traditional Etruscan kings? Mythical rape of Lucrecia by 
Tarquinius Sextus? Overthrow by the Brutii? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?)

-- 
Jim

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