Titles...

[Murph]

If anyone gets an urge to tell me what this Latin stuff in our titles says, I'd welcome it. I assume it's determine by our post numbers, right?

Anyway, just curiosity, really.

[Mark Asher]

Yeah, it's posting numbers. I just had a little fun. I think yours translates as "Master of the Universe" or something like that. It's the highest title I came up with.

Others are jokes or semi-famous phrases. Don't ask me what they mean. I did a google on Latin phrases and found them, but I instantly forgot what they mean.

I'll probably take them down soon. I was experimenting. I need someone with genuine wit (like Sparky or Tom) to give me better ones.

Smiley time. :lol:

[TimElhajj]

non compos mentis? them's fightin words where I come from!

[GMicek]

If anyone gets an urge to tell me what this Latin stuff in our titles says, I'd welcome it. I assume it's determine by our post numbers, right?

Anyway, just curiosity, really.

argumentum ad ignorantiam = Argument from Ignorance
Braccae tuae aperiuntur = Your fly is open
Raptus regaliter = Royally screwed
Magister mundi sum! = I am the master of the universe!
Frater, ave atque vale = Brother, hail and farewell (i think)
Puri sermonis amator = a lover of pure speech
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditu = Anything in latin sounds profound
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem = Stand aside plebians! I am on imperial business

those were some of the ones i found.

[Sparky]

I'll probably take them down soon. I was experimenting. I need someone with genuine wit (like Sparky or Tom) to give me better ones.

Heavens, I'm not in the same league with Tom Chick. I am but an Oscar Madison to his Oscar Wilde, the Parker Stevenson to his Dorothy Parker. If this was the Algonquin Round Table, I'd be cowering underneath surrounded by dust bunnies, perusing a six-month-old copy of Maxim and eating marshmallow circus peanuts.

[James Gutierrez]

Mmmmm....spongy.

(I downsized a few years ago when I realized the cost saving potential of outsourcing all of my Humor Services tasks to The Simpsons.)

[Alan Au]

My mad Latin skillz have atrophied down to the mere essentials, mostly bad puns and conjugating the verb "to be."

Ubi o ubi est mea sub-ubi.

- Alan

[Sparky]

Yup. It's been far too long since dear Mrs. Scarborough's Latin class ("Considite discipuli! NUNC!"). However, there's always the brilliant Henry Beard's "Latin For All Occasions", which is chock full of handy phrases like "die dulci fruere" [1] and "Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades" [2].

[1]" Have a nice day."
[2] "If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close."

[GMicek]

[2] "If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close."

Hahaha, whoo. That's great stuff there.

[Alan Au]

Boy, and some people think Latin is a dead language!

- Alan

[Sparky]

"Si hoc legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes!"

("If you can read this, you can get a good job in the fast-paced, high-paying world of Latin!")

[DennyA]

I'll probably take them down soon. I was experimenting. I need someone with genuine wit (like Sparky or Tom) to give me better ones.
As I approach Magister Mundi McCullough, I must remind Mark of this statement...

[Kalle]

I'll probably take them down soon. I was experimenting. I need someone with genuine wit (like Sparky or Tom) to give me better ones.
As I approach Magister Mundi McCullough, I must remind Mark of this statement...

Remember when it was Magister Mundi Tyjenkianus? This is an improvement.