Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:31:21

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
news:Xns96D1D0A3877A93v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 

> 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?) 
> 

It's not as funny if you have to explain it :-|
 Ted

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