Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:33:09

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in news:Xns96D1E56E46EBFndtcm@
68.1.17.6:

> 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
>>>> news:Xns96D22B5F6A880r73u67jw56nas@ 62.253.170.163:
>>>> 
>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:Xns96D1E1FFF6476ndtcm@ 68.1.17.6:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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...

Well to be fair it isn't just the puns, it's the constant demands for 
wild passionate sweaty animal sex.
 One of these days I'm just going to learn to tell her no.
Ted

-- 
Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to 
hide the bodies

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