Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:51:27

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96D1D280616A43v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Well lets see, babe, check, nifty wheels, check, oodles of cash, check.
>  All he needed was a flash weapon that could make things explode and a 
> swinging batchelor villa and he was set for life.
>                

Oooh...the biggest ballista of all time...(alas, no trebuchets)


>> (Historical version: The idiots left all the money behind.)
> 
> Well they did think that they were going back. On a side note to this, 
> considering the amount of gold back into a box that large the soldiers 
> didn't seem to have much trouble shifting them around.

They were men. Manly men. Manly men doing manly things in a manly manner. 

-- 
Jim

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