Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:34:12

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
news:Xns96D1D1937F4F93v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18:

> weirdwolf wrote:
> 
>> 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 :-|
>> 
> 
> D'oh!
> 

Gotcha. I'm sorry I couldn't resist.
 Ted

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