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eos vidi valvas evellentes / I saw them wrenching off the doors.Peculium dimidiatum est! / I'm cutting your allowance in half!.
hercle! equus meus est ceratus / By Hercules! my horse is waxen.
multus sanguis fluit / Much blood flows.
cogito ergo sum. (Rene Descartes French Philosopher) / I think therefore I am.
cogito ergo doleo / I think therefore I am depressed.
veni, vidi, vici (Julius Ceasar) / I came, I saw, I conquered.
vir bonus, dicendi peritus (Cato the Orator) / A good man, speaking well.
si minor plus est ergo nihil sunt omnia / If less is more therefore nothing is everything.
catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam / I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
gramen artificiosum odi / I hate Astroturf.
furnulum pani nolo / I don't want a toaster.
noli me vocare, ego te vocabo / Don't call me, I'll call you.
cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules / If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.
canis meus id comedit / My dog ate it.
illiud Latine dici non potest / You can't say that in Latin.
vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas? / Seen any good movies lately?
fac ut gaudeam / Make my day.
braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur! / Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the tartan jacket!
visne saltare? viam Latam Fungosam scio. Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.
re vera, potas bene. Say, you sure are drinking a lot.
utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant! May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!
utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
radix lecti / Couch potato.
tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio / I am as dead as the nehru jacket.
ubi ignes est? / Where's the fire?
semper ubi, sub ubi / Always where under where!
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), November 18, 1999
my wife wants to know the Latin version of "Shit Happens"
-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), November 18, 1999.
Aut Victus, Aut Mortis - We Live, Or We Die.
-- Powder (powder@keg.com), November 18, 1999.
Aut Victus, Aut Mortis - We Win, Or We Die.
-- Powder (powder@keg.com), November 18, 1999.
Sorry, disregard the 1st post
-- Powder (powder@keg.com), November 18, 1999.
Plonk, don't know. Merde occurus? BigDog?Honi soit qui mal y pense / Evil to him who evil thinks
(Motto on British coat of arms)
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), November 18, 1999.
My daughter was at a meeting recently where someone was wearing a sweatshirt inscribed with a latin phrase. She was the only one who could translate it:If you can read this you are an over-achiever.
I wish I could give you the latin translation but I'm a foriegn language under-achiever.
-- walt (longyear@shentel.net), November 18, 1999.
Thanks for the laugh, OG. (Being an uneducated bum, I'll leave the translation up to you. ;-)
-- Tricia the Canuck (tricia_canuck@hotmail.com), November 18, 1999.
Walt, it'sSi hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes
-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), November 18, 1999.
De Oppresso de Libre....To Free the Oppressed.
-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasan(and 10th GrpSF)@yahoo.com), November 19, 1999.
Damn...Try again...Minus spelling errorsDe Oppresso Liber: To Free the Oppressed
-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasan@yahoo.com), November 19, 1999.
Quando omni flunkus moritati/When in doubt, play dead. (pledge by members of Red Green's Possum Lodge - http://www.redgreen.com)
-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), November 19, 1999.