Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 05:01:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96D1D42B85A253v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
> 
>> 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)
> 
>  Strangely enough I was thinking of a magna ballista as well. Hmm if it 
> was at Pompei you could have a magna magma ballista.

If he decided to take his money and settle in Herculaneum, it could be a 
Herculanean Magna Magma Ballista.

>> 
>>>> (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. 
> 
>  The guy who did the fight scenes held a boot camp for the extras, a load 
> dropped out. They slept together,(I mean in communally in a tent not 
> together, although actors and roman soldiers.. so maybe I was correct,) 
> and weren't allowed things like mobile phones.

Because, as we all know, Roman conscripts were required to surrender their 
mobile phones before joining the legions.

-- 
Jim

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