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October 8th, 2022
catnik 8:58pm
I often convert a few kids from Intro
earldebuke 8:58pm
It's a great line 🙂
robinrahne 9:12pm
Distracting conversation at this end, forgive lags.
robinrahne 9:13pm
Ack, I'm not going to be able to get out of this for a while.
earldebuke 9:14pm
No worries. We can pause if you prefer?
robinrahne 9:15pm
Temporary reprieve. Continue!
robinrahne 9:25pm
I'm being regales with a history of road numbering.
earldebuke 9:27pm
Mile marker lollipops!
catnik 9:32pm
oh dear
catnik 9:32pm
odds go one way, evens the other?
catnik 9:32pm
iirc, evens are east/west
catnik 9:32pm
odds are north/south
robinrahne 9:35pm
Need to pause, sorry.
earldebuke 9:35pm
Sorry, Catnik. I am halfassing a theatre professor and as you actually KNOW this stuff I am apologizing for the mistakes that will be made
catnik 9:39pm
In ~400 BC, there was a Greek actor named Hegelochus who flubbed a line so badly that we STILL know his name
earldebuke 9:40pm
Ok. hegelochus is a great name for a pooka
catnik 9:40pm
This was in a performance of Orestes, which is our only intact, extant trilogy
earldebuke 9:45pm
😄
earldebuke 9:45pm
What a thing to be known for. Poor guy
catnik 9:47pm
yup!
catnik 9:47pm
Nearly 2 and half millenia
earldebuke 9:53pm
He deserves a holiday named after him. Folks could continually get the date wrong
catnik 10:13pm
we know much less about greek comedy
catnik 10:13pm
we lost the book
earldebuke 10:14pm
OH
earldebuke 10:14pm
I assume it was both clever word play and fart jokes
earldebuke 10:17pm
But edited
earldebuke 10:18pm
Hope you like Jodie's chimera
catnik 10:21pm
there is clever word play and fart jokes
catnik 10:21pm
we just know less
catnik 10:21pm
esp old comedy
catnik 10:21pm
Aristotle's poetics had 2 volumes
earldebuke 10:21pm
Makes me wonder if some butthurt powerful people didn't have the works destroyed as soon as they could
catnik 10:21pm
we only have the one
catnik 10:22pm
possibly - old comedy is more satirical
catnik 10:22pm
which is slightly different from satyr plays from which we get the term satire
catnik 10:22pm
but def dock jokes abound
catnik 10:22pm
SO MANY dick jokes
earldebuke 10:23pm
"The Comedian Bropheus was loved for his 'She who carried you in her womb' jokes by the plebians, but the Patricians despised him"
earldebuke 10:26pm
Pardon. I washed too much "History of the World Part 1" , it gets in your head
catnik 10:27pm
hee
catnik 10:27pm
the romans are very important for modern comedy
catnik 10:27pm
they pull from new comedy
catnik 10:27pm
new comedy being greek
earldebuke 10:29pm
"We love your culture, Greeks" -ROmans//"That's flattering, even from Barbarians" - Greeks/"And that's why we're taking it all, LOAD IT UP BOYS!"- Romans/"What in Hades?"-Greeks/"Pluto. Going with Pluto."-Romans as they cart it all
catnik 10:32pm
earldebuke 10:35pm
Heh
earldebuke 10:36pm
You ever see Knives Out?
catnik 10:38pm
yes!
catnik 10:38pm
it's brilliant