Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:33:04

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

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
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>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
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>>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
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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
> 

Actually, I don't think they wonder at all...

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