Subj : Re: Rome
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 05:02:38

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
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> 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.

 Ouch and you complain about my puns!

>>> 
>>>>> (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.
> 

Well Vercingetorix did have that annoying crazy frog thing going all the 
time.
 Ted

-- 
Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to 
hide the bodies

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