Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:34:07

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Chaya <chayaruthNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in 
> news:Xns96D1EE82D6893chayaruth@204.153.244.170:
> 
>> Jim Larson wrote:
>> 
>>> Chaya wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jim Larson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Chaya wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:Xns96D1CC9C35083v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 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:
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 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 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> (It's not as funny if you explain it. Of course, this assumes it
>>>>>>>> was funny before you explained it.)
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  It's a pun it's not supposed to be funny it's supposed to make
>>>>>>>  you 
>>>>>>> groan. Besides I was worried about Nick and Chaya sitting in the
>>>>>>> corner like that, it was like they were planning something.
>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We were scheming about how to take over from His Supreme Lordship
>>>>>> Lawson.  I shouldn't have given him all those quarters. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lawson? LAWSON?!?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> D'oh!!!!  You know, 'R' and 'W' are very close on the keyboard...
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Rell, ofcouwse they awe. 
>>> 
>> 
>> Guess I'm the first one up against the wall.  And your only funding
>> source, too.  Such a short-lived rule. 
> 
> Lady Jane Larson, has a nice ring to it.

I shall be haughty during my execution.

-- 
Jim

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