Came for the True Romance ref, leaving satisfied.

never mouth off to a Sicilian

What a way to go.

Did the ancient Etruscans a bull head? Did they have amazing athletic abilities that allowed them to juggle boulders? No? They were just human? So who gives a fark what happened to them?

Well done basemetal. Done in one.

gopher321: Came for the True Romance ref, leaving satisfied.

never mouth off to a Sicilian

You realize Dennis Hopper told the"eggplant" story in True Romance in hopes of protecting Clarence and Alabama from the mob? He knew the story would anger them and they would kill him out of a sense of honor without getting the information they wanted. Unfortunately Clarence's buddy's address was on the refridgerator.

What a Tuscan family may have looked like, a long long time ago.

Tenebreux: What a Tuscan family may have looked like, a long long time ago.

Are you saying the Etruscans will soon be back? And in greater numbers?

TUO3MTA3: Tenebreux: What a Tuscan family may have looked like, a long long time ago.

Are you saying the Etruscans will soon be back? And in greater numbers?

But they do scare easily.

Jakevol2: gopher321: Came for the True Romance ref, leaving satisfied.

never mouth off to a Sicilian

You realize Dennis Hopper told the"eggplant" story in True Romance in hopes of protecting Clarence and Alabama from the mob? He knew the story would anger them and they would kill him out of a sense of honor without getting the information they wanted. Unfortunately Clarence's buddy's address was on the refridgerator.


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Very niiiiiiice. For Etruscan, how much?

FTFA: 'The most simple explanation is that the structure of the Tuscan population underwent important demographic changes in the first millennium before Christ,' they said.

'Immigration and forced migration have diluted the Etruscan genetic inheritance so much as to make it difficult to recognise'.

Well...duh.

I know you were doing a pop culture reference, but you did not read far enough into TFA:

"Immigration and forced migration have diluted the Etruscan genetic inheritance so much as to make it difficult to recognise."

Of course, the headline could indirectly be correct because of population pressure causing the forced migrations, but TFA does not say that. This needs moar research. The Etruscans were interesting folks.

basemetal

Done in one.

I haven't killed anyone since 1985.

The Sabine women agree.

Sounds like fun to me.

Fano: The Sabine women agree.

beat me to it by seven minutes

"them [sabine] women was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'
Fit to be tied.
Ev'ry muscle was throbbin', throbbin'
From that riotous ride.
Oh they cried and kissed and kissed and cried
All over that Roman countryside
So don't forget that when you're takin' a bride."

006andahalf: Fano: The Sabine women agree.

beat me to it by seven minutes

"them [sabine] women was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'
Fit to be tied.
Ev'ry muscle was throbbin', throbbin'
From that riotous ride.
Oh they cried and kissed and kissed and cried
All over that Roman countryside
So don't forget that when you're takin' a bride."

On the plus side you brought an additional reference. I wracked my brain for a good pun, realized the clock was ticking, and heaved a shot at the basket.
+1 for your reference

doesnt anyone else think idiocrasy?

Do you like this? It's early Etruscan...

And if they hadn't? No Monica Bellucci.

I think they went in against a Sicilian when death was on the line.



/hotlinked?
//inconceivable!

Along the same lines, I'd love to know how much of a connection modern Greeks have to Hellenistic Greeks.

...and Guidos have been farking everyone over ever since.

gopher321: Came for the True Romance ref, leaving satisfied.

never mouth off to a Sicilian

yup...pretty much over in one.

essucht: I'd love to know how much of a connection modern Greeks have to Hellenistic Greeks.

It depends, an Athenian today would have at least some common ancestry with some Greeks of back then. Someone living near what was Ephesus or Corinth? Not so much. Keep in mind that even back then Greek populations did differ slightly, what most united them was that they spoke some dialect of Greek. Well until Alexander the Great showed up and got everyone speaking the same dialect.

As for Etruscan, even though it was in widespread use during 500 BCE, unlike other languages in wide use at the time, we know haltingly little. Little in the way of long texts, anything beyond a few dozen words, survives. And only a few hundred words have been definitively deciphered. Which just ads another layer to the mystery of the Etruscans.

Only a stammering fool would be interested in the Etruscans.

"Ancestors of Modern Italians" reminded me, first, of an early Sopranos episode where the Jewish guy holding out on a divorce (and a "get") almost gets his dick and balls cut off by Tony, Paulie, and Sil before he caves.

MentalMoment: Only a stammering fool would be interested in the Etruscans.

gopher321: Came for the True Romance ref, leaving satisfied.

never mouth off to a Sicilian

Came for this too!

I can't believe I remembered this; and found a link. (Far right category)(^)

To few scholars, Etruscans are mere Orientalized (Egyptian or Middle Eastern) people in the Italian peninsula with the help of trading with Greeks. Very cryptic people who later brought more culture to the early Romans.

Plus, the Etruscan alphabet is the template for today's Latin Alphabet that I'm writing in right now.

Maybe the Etruscans were basically genetically very similar to other Italian peoples, and so there is no difference to actually find?

006andahalf: "them [sabine] women was sobbin', sobbin', sobbin'
Fit to be tied.
Ev'ry muscle was throbbin', throbbin'
From that riotous ride.
Oh they cried and kissed and kissed and cried
All over that Roman countryside
So don't forget that when you're takin' a bride."

OH now damnit. That's gonna be stuck in my head watching the fireworks later.

Tell ya bout them sobbin women
that lived in the Roman days
It seems that they all went swimmin
while their men were out to graze

Definitions of 'too' on the Web:

excessively: to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits; "too big" or "too few"
besides: in addition; "he has a Mercedes, too"

I'm descended from ancient Illyrians, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

After reading the headline, here's a pic of what the researchers may have found:




/hotlinked

It still boggles my mind when I think about all the histories of humans on earth. Being a young guy I feel like anything before 1950 is ancient history, then stories like this one go to say that the Etruscans were living in the area for the first MILLENIA b.c.
So cool, I luffles history.

Aarontz23: After reading the headline, here's a pic of what the researchers may have found:

/hotlinked

"fark it. We'll learn Proto-IndoEuropean later.."

I'm descended from a bunch of dirty Jews, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Mart Laar's beard shaver: I'm descended from ancient Illyrians, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Oh yeah, well I'm descended from future Illyrians, so take that!

If you can't burn them out, breed them out.

I just rented "Rocco Siffredi's Etruscan F*ckers 12" on DVD last night, so I'm really getting a kick etc. etc.