08-14-2003, 08:45 AM
This is a fun one:<br>
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quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur<br>
Anything said in Latin sounds profound.<br>
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Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.<br>
A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.<br>
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Imus ad magum Ozi videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum.<br>
We are going to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.<br>
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Noster populus facit discrepantiam.<br>
Our people make the difference.<br>
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Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.<br>
Only you are can prevent forest fires.<br>
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Fac ut gaudeam.<br>
Make my day.<br>
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Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua.<br>
The only good language is a dead language.<br>
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Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.<br>
To boldly go where no man has gone before.<br>
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Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.<br>
You do not know the power of the dark side.<br>
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Sit vis nobiscum.<br>
May the force be with you.<br>
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Tauri in decurso<br>
Bulls on parade<br>
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Quaeso esto meus vicinus.<br>
Please won't you be my neighbor.<br>
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Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis.<br>
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.<br>
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Magnus frater spectat te...<br>
Big Brother is watching you....<br>
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Monstra mihi pecuniam!<br>
Show me the money!<br>
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Habetis bona deum.<br>
Have a nice day.<br>
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Die dulci fruere.<br>
Have a nice day.<br>
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Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.<br>
Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.<br>
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Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!<br>
If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!<br>
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Sona si Latine loqueris.<br>
Honk if you speak Latin.<br>
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Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!<br>
Don't you dare erase my hard disk!<br>
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.<br>
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.<br>
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Gramen artificiosum odi.<br>
I hate Astroturf.<br>
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Furnulum pani nolo.<br>
I don't want a toaster.<br>
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Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.<br>
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.<br>
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Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.<br>
I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.<br>
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Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.<br>
Don't call me, I'll call you.<br>
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Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules.<br>
If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.<br>
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Canis meus id comedit.<br>
My dog ate it.<br>
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Illiud Latine dici non potest.<br>
You can't say that in Latin.<br>
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Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas?<br>
Seen any good movies lately?<br>
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Nullo metro compositum est.<br>
It doesn't rhyme.<br>
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Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.<br>
I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.<br>
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Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!<br>
Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!<br>
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Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.<br>
Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.<br>
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Re vera, potas bene.<br>
Say, you sure are drinking a lot.<br>
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Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!<br>
May barbarians invade your personal space!<br>
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Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!<br>
May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!<br>
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Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!<br>
May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!<br>
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Radix lecti<br>
Couch potato<br>
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Quo signo nata es?<br>
What's your sign?<br>
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Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt.<br>
You know, the Romans invented the art of love.<br>
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Spero nos familiares mansuros.<br>
I hope we'll still be friends.<br>
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Mellita, domi adsum.<br>
Honey, I'm home.<br>
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Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.<br>
I am as dead as the nehru jacket.<br>
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Ventis secundis, tene cursum.<br>
Go with the flow.<br>
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Totum dependeat.<br>
Let it all hang out.<br>
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Te precor dulcissime supplex!<br>
Pretty please with a cherry on top!<br>
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Magister Mundi sum!<br>
I am the Master of the Universe!<br>
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Fac me cocleario vomere!<br>
Gag me with a spoon!<br>
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Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.<br>
I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.<br>
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Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?<br>
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?<br>
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Prehende uxorem meam, sis!<br>
Take my wife, please!<br>
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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?<br>
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?<br>
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Nihil est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui.<br>
That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.<br>
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Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est.<br>
Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.<br>
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Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!<br>
Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.<br>
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Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras!<br>
I forgot to polish the clocks!<br>
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Sic faciunt omnes.<br>
Everyone is doing it.<br>
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Vacca foeda<br>
Stupid cow<br>
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Fac ut vivas.<br>
Get a life.<br>
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Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!<br>
Let's all wear mood rings!<br>
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Insula Gilliganis<br>
Gilligan's Island<br>
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Vescere bracis meis.<br>
Eat my shorts<br>
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Lege atque lacrima.<br>
Read 'em and weep<br>
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Stultus est sicut stultus facit.<br>
Stupid is as stupid does.<br>
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Cum catapultae proscriptae erat, tum soli proscript catapultas habeunt.<br>
If catapaults are outlawed, then only outlaws will only have catapaults.<br>
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Raptus regaliter.<br>
Royally screwed.<br>
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Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.<br>
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.<br>
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Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!<br>
God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!<br>
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Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.<br>
The designated hitter rule has got to go.<br>
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Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.<br>
If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.<br>
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(At a barbeque)<br>
Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?<br>
Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?<br>
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Viri sunt Viri.<br>
Men are slime.<br>
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Id est mihi, id non est tibi!<br>
It is mine, not yours!<br>
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Tempus incognitum.<br>
Time unknown.<br>
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Labera lege...<br>
Read my lips...<br>
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Credo Elvem etiam vivere.<br>
I believe Elvis lives.<br>
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Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.<br>
If you can read this, you have too much education.<br>
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Si tu id aeficas, ei venient. Ager Somnia<br>
If you build it, they will come. Field of Dreams<br>
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Cogito, ergo sum.<br>
I think, therefore I am.<br>
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Sum, ergo edo.<br>
I am, therefore I eat.<br>
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Cogito, ergo doleo.<br>
I think, therefore I am depressed.<br>
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Cogito sumere potum alterum.<br>
I think I’ll have another drink.<br>
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Noli nothis permittere te terere.<br>
Don’t let the bastards get you down.<br>
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Duc, sequere, aut de via decede.<br>
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.<br>
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Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?<br>
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?<br>
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Qualem muleirculam!<br>
What a bimbo!<br>
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Qualem blennum!<br>
What a doofus!<br>
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Lagunculae leydianae non accedunt.<br>
Batteries not included.<br>
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Hoc nomen meum verum non est.<br>
This isn’t my real name.<br>
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Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi.<br>
I don’t really know all that much Latin.<br>
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Ubi est mea anaticula cumminosa?<br>
Where’s my rubber ducky?<br>
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Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam!<br>
I want my rubber ducky!<br>
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Wal*mart. Semper.<br>
Wal*mart. Always.<br>
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quidquid latine dictum sit altum viditur<br>
Anything said in Latin sounds profound.<br>
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Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.<br>
A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.<br>
<br>
Imus ad magum Ozi videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum.<br>
We are going to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.<br>
<br>
Noster populus facit discrepantiam.<br>
Our people make the difference.<br>
<br>
Solum potestis prohibere ignes silvarum.<br>
Only you are can prevent forest fires.<br>
<br>
Fac ut gaudeam.<br>
Make my day.<br>
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Sola lingua bona est lingua mortua.<br>
The only good language is a dead language.<br>
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Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.<br>
To boldly go where no man has gone before.<br>
<br>
Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.<br>
You do not know the power of the dark side.<br>
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Sit vis nobiscum.<br>
May the force be with you.<br>
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Tauri in decurso<br>
Bulls on parade<br>
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Quaeso esto meus vicinus.<br>
Please won't you be my neighbor.<br>
<br>
Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis.<br>
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.<br>
<br>
Magnus frater spectat te...<br>
Big Brother is watching you....<br>
<br>
Monstra mihi pecuniam!<br>
Show me the money!<br>
<br>
Habetis bona deum.<br>
Have a nice day.<br>
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Die dulci fruere.<br>
Have a nice day.<br>
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Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.<br>
Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.<br>
<br>
Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!<br>
If you can read this sign, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!<br>
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Sona si Latine loqueris.<br>
Honk if you speak Latin.<br>
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Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!<br>
Don't you dare erase my hard disk!<br>
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.<br>
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.<br>
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Gramen artificiosum odi.<br>
I hate Astroturf.<br>
<br>
Furnulum pani nolo.<br>
I don't want a toaster.<br>
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Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.<br>
I think some people in togas are plotting against me.<br>
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Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.<br>
I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.<br>
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Noli me vocare, ego te vocabo.<br>
Don't call me, I'll call you.<br>
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Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules.<br>
If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults.<br>
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Canis meus id comedit.<br>
My dog ate it.<br>
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Illiud Latine dici non potest.<br>
You can't say that in Latin.<br>
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Vidistine nuper imagines moventes bonas?<br>
Seen any good movies lately?<br>
<br>
Nullo metro compositum est.<br>
It doesn't rhyme.<br>
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Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.<br>
I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem.<br>
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Braccae illae virides cum subucula rosea et tunica Caledonia-quam elenganter concinnatur!<br>
Those green pants go so well with that pink shirt and the plaid jacket!<br>
<br>
Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.<br>
Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway.<br>
<br>
Re vera, potas bene.<br>
Say, you sure are drinking a lot.<br>
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Utinam barbari spatium proprium tuum invadant!<br>
May barbarians invade your personal space!<br>
<br>
Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!<br>
May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!<br>
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Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!<br>
May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!<br>
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Radix lecti<br>
Couch potato<br>
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Quo signo nata es?<br>
What's your sign?<br>
<br>
Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt.<br>
You know, the Romans invented the art of love.<br>
<br>
Spero nos familiares mansuros.<br>
I hope we'll still be friends.<br>
<br>
Mellita, domi adsum.<br>
Honey, I'm home.<br>
<br>
Tam exanimis quam tunica nehru fio.<br>
I am as dead as the nehru jacket.<br>
<br>
Ventis secundis, tene cursum.<br>
Go with the flow.<br>
<br>
Totum dependeat.<br>
Let it all hang out.<br>
<br>
Te precor dulcissime supplex!<br>
Pretty please with a cherry on top!<br>
<br>
Magister Mundi sum!<br>
I am the Master of the Universe!<br>
<br>
Fac me cocleario vomere!<br>
Gag me with a spoon!<br>
<br>
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.<br>
I can't hear you. I have a banana in my ear.<br>
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Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?<br>
Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?<br>
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Prehende uxorem meam, sis!<br>
Take my wife, please!<br>
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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?<br>
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?<br>
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Nihil est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui.<br>
That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor.<br>
<br>
Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est.<br>
Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.<br>
<br>
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!<br>
Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business.<br>
<br>
Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras!<br>
I forgot to polish the clocks!<br>
<br>
Sic faciunt omnes.<br>
Everyone is doing it.<br>
<br>
Vacca foeda<br>
Stupid cow<br>
<br>
Fac ut vivas.<br>
Get a life.<br>
<br>
Anulos qui animum ostendunt omnes gestemus!<br>
Let's all wear mood rings!<br>
<br>
Insula Gilliganis<br>
Gilligan's Island<br>
<br>
Vescere bracis meis.<br>
Eat my shorts<br>
<br>
Lege atque lacrima.<br>
Read 'em and weep<br>
<br>
Stultus est sicut stultus facit.<br>
Stupid is as stupid does.<br>
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Cum catapultae proscriptae erat, tum soli proscript catapultas habeunt.<br>
If catapaults are outlawed, then only outlaws will only have catapaults.<br>
<br>
Raptus regaliter.<br>
Royally screwed.<br>
<br>
Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.<br>
It's not the heat, it's the humidity.<br>
<br>
Di! Ecce hora! Uxor mea me necabit!<br>
God, look at the time! My wife will kill me!<br>
<br>
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.<br>
The designated hitter rule has got to go.<br>
<br>
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.<br>
If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar.<br>
<br>
(At a barbeque)<br>
Animadvertistine, ubicumque stes, fumum recta in faciem ferri?<br>
Ever noticed how wherever you stand, the smoke goes right into your face?<br>
<br>
Viri sunt Viri.<br>
Men are slime.<br>
<br>
Id est mihi, id non est tibi!<br>
It is mine, not yours!<br>
<br>
Tempus incognitum.<br>
Time unknown.<br>
<br>
Labera lege...<br>
Read my lips...<br>
<br>
Credo Elvem etiam vivere.<br>
I believe Elvis lives.<br>
<br>
Si hoc legere scis, nimium eruditionis habes.<br>
If you can read this, you have too much education.<br>
<br>
Si tu id aeficas, ei venient. Ager Somnia<br>
If you build it, they will come. Field of Dreams<br>
<br>
Cogito, ergo sum.<br>
I think, therefore I am.<br>
<br>
Sum, ergo edo.<br>
I am, therefore I eat.<br>
<br>
Cogito, ergo doleo.<br>
I think, therefore I am depressed.<br>
<br>
Cogito sumere potum alterum.<br>
I think I’ll have another drink.<br>
<br>
Noli nothis permittere te terere.<br>
Don’t let the bastards get you down.<br>
<br>
Duc, sequere, aut de via decede.<br>
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.<br>
<br>
Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?<br>
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?<br>
<br>
Qualem muleirculam!<br>
What a bimbo!<br>
<br>
Qualem blennum!<br>
What a doofus!<br>
<br>
Lagunculae leydianae non accedunt.<br>
Batteries not included.<br>
<br>
Hoc nomen meum verum non est.<br>
This isn’t my real name.<br>
<br>
Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi.<br>
I don’t really know all that much Latin.<br>
<br>
Ubi est mea anaticula cumminosa?<br>
Where’s my rubber ducky?<br>
<br>
Volo anaticulam cumminosam meam!<br>
I want my rubber ducky!<br>
<br>
Wal*mart. Semper.<br>
Wal*mart. Always.<br>
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gr,
Jeroen Pelgrom
Rules for Posting
I would rather have fire storms of atmospheres than this cruel descent from a thousand years of dreams.
Jeroen Pelgrom
Rules for Posting
I would rather have fire storms of atmospheres than this cruel descent from a thousand years of dreams.
