Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:41:37

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> 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.

On the subject of Rome, am I supposed to interpret that last scene as Titus 
Pullo trying to make off with the treasury? Because that would totally rock 
in a non-historical but amusing way.

(Historical version: The idiots left all the money behind.)

-- 
Jim

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