Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 04:56:23

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya <chayaruthNOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote in news:Xns96D1F38FE22Bchayaruth@
204.153.244.170:

> Jim Larson wrote:
> 
>> Chaya wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Larson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Nick 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?!?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Wait a minute.  Lawson had his web cam going last week too.
>>>>> She must have him on the brain.  Woe is me.  
>>>>> Rejection is a bitter dish.
>>>> 
>>>> Baaaawaaaahaaaa....<singsong> Chaya likes Lawson better than Nicky
>>>> </ss> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> LOL.  Such an emotional response from a simple typing error.
>>> 
>> 
>> (Well, it's all your fault, missy.)
>> 
> 
> Yeah, yeah.  On that note, I'm going to bed (Futurama just went off). 
> 'Night all. 

Light weight.. anybody would think it was 5 in the morning or something.
 Ted

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hide the bodies

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