I never learned Latin, but I do own a copy of Winnie Ille Pooh.
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
'Safe'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Burrell - Aug 10, 2003 7:53:16 am PDT #3974 of 10005
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Katie M - Aug 10, 2003 1:54:16 pm PDT #3975 of 10005
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I took a year of Latin, and liked it quite a bit. Admittedly the one year of Latin we had at our high school was as much cultural as linguistic - I don't think we even got out of the present tense - but I thought it was a really fun language, with the cases and all. Plus, pretty.
Trudy Booth - Aug 10, 2003 5:03:41 pm PDT #3976 of 10005
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Plus, pretty.
Hence, all the lovers.
Count me in for Natter 15: Beware the Ides of Natter
billytea - Aug 10, 2003 5:53:31 pm PDT #3977 of 10005
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Count me in for Ides. And liking Latin. But Natter 17, I believe, was going to be something on the 'this could be mathier' theme, in honour of Nilly.
Theodosia - Aug 11, 2003 2:05:31 am PDT #3978 of 10005
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I won't be around today when the topic turns over, but beg you all to remember the Ides when it does!
Anne W. - Aug 11, 2003 3:08:30 am PDT #3979 of 10005
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I love the idea of "Beware the Ides of Natter."
Allyson - Aug 11, 2003 5:23:17 am PDT #3980 of 10005
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I'll be around today to bludgeon anyone who dares suggest something different.
Nilly - Aug 11, 2003 5:32:09 am PDT #3981 of 10005
Swouncing
Here's a silly never-learned-Latin-and-the-other-languages-are-not-so-well-either question:
how does one pronounce "Ides"? Does it rhyme with "tides" or with "ids" or with something else entirely, as if it were written in French? I'd like the name of the new Natter thread to ring correctly in my head, after all.
Jon B. - Aug 11, 2003 5:33:32 am PDT #3982 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It rhymes with "tides".
Nilly - Aug 11, 2003 5:34:04 am PDT #3983 of 10005
Swouncing
Thanks, Jon.