I was trying to do something with lava lamps

but settled for this instead.

'Ning everyone *waves*

From the The Roman Internet challenge. See all 271 entries (closed)

( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:21, archived)

Hahaha!
'ning you loon ;)
( mediocre *canned laughter*, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:21, archived)

'ning!
anti woo
anti yay
anti hooplah!

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( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:22, archived)

you at home with this
challenge

/tenuous Greek/roman link

EDIT: how rude WOO
( Neon Blue Ah ha ha, I feel positively Capital!, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:29, archived)

yeah that did cross my mind too
But, Ptolemy was either Greek or Egyptian (I've never quite been able to figure it out) so as you say, the Roman connection's pretty tenuous.
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:37, archived)

I thought the ptolomy family was greek
but they took over egypt towards then end of the egyptian period.
( Neon Blue Ah ha ha, I feel positively Capital!, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:38, archived)

Sounds about right
my family have a long history of being suckered into pyramid selling scams
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:43, archived)

pfft

( Neon Blue Ah ha ha, I feel positively Capital!, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:53, archived)

Was he not Egyptian when Egypt was under Roman rule?
/may be talking out of arse

edit: what happened to your pea? Did you tread on it by mistake?
( tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:41, archived)

no no, you're right
he was born in Egypt - but is invariably described as Greek for some odd reason.

www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html

edit: thankyou for your concern - my pea's not been quite the same ever since a recent trip to London.
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:46, archived)

Says he was also a citizen of Rome
so everyone wins
( tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:48, archived)

I've never read that far down
/ is a bit scared of formulae and the like
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:52, archived)

It's only the third paragraph, way before the scary numbers

( tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 10:05, archived)

Hahaha
What an igneous idea!

g'ning sir!
( tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:35, archived)

ha ha!
I had a feeling there'd be an eruption of puns, too

mornin', you!
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:38, archived)

Poor you
and porous



*runs away*
( brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:42, archived)

Haha, the puns are mushroom (cloud) -ing
...
( tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:43, archived)

If the column collapses
we'll have a punotastic flow
Like at Punatubo.
(Arsenic, Fri 13 Jul, 2:73 and, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:50, archived)

well don't blame me
it's not my fault, it was some other geyser
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:56, archived)

oh be gneiss
can't mess with that geologic.
(Arsenic, Fri 13 Jul, 2:73 and, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:59, archived)

Two puns in one post?
I may have to magma-nimously concede defeat
( tipassoi, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 10:09, archived)

A good round of (feld)sparring I say!
The humus is strong tonight
*rocks out*
(Arsenic, Fri 13 Jul, 2:73 and, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 10:16, archived)

haha

( Sunshine Elephant, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:36, archived)

haha! 'ning :)

( mugatu what the deuce?, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 9:40, archived)