Veni Vidi Vino
I came, I saw, I drank
(okay.. last of the geekdinner posts I promise).
Guess this one should have a geek alert: my boet was laughing at me once again for being pathetically nerdy but I found it amusing (sitting for hours squished in a car roadtripping – if you’re a slighty hyperactive human – can make anything funny*) hence my take on Julius Caesar’s Veni Vidi Vici after a heavy night of Stormhoek through a hungoverhaze**. I discovered that the linux forums had a whole list of them >> go if you’re nerdy ‘nuf
*too heady? for a truly lavatorial antidote: corner Captain Chris at the 27 dinner: & ask him about the bum contoured loo seat & china-cam :’-D no degree or latin needed
**there’s hope Ms Ritz – I swear it gets better everytime, those first few geekdinners are always bad for the reputation: but I was VERY well behaved at this one. However that may not be a good thing ‘cos you know the maxim “Well-behaved women rarely make history“








i guess i wouldn’t be me if i was behaved :)
and the “lady” vibe is so overrated
so here’s to chaos and tarnished reps!!
too bloody right Carlz.. what was I thinking?!
I can always start a few rumours if you wish.
Illiud Latine dici non potest
- You can’t say that in Latin
Latine loqui coactus sum
- I have this compulsion to speak Latin
Prehende uxorem meam, sis!
- Take my wife, please
Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
- Anything said in Latin sounds profound
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
- If you can read this you’re overeducated
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur
- Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out
(and you could break this one up a few ways,..)
Un idea perplexi na
- The idea is strange to us
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
- I think that I think, therefore I think that I am
ab asino lanam
-blood from stone
advocantus diaboli
-The Devil’s Advocate
semper ubi sub ubi
-always where under where
age quod agis
-pay attention to what you’re doing
albae gallinae filius
- son of a white chicken
alea iacta est
- the die is cast
amates sunt amentes
- lovers are lunatics (esp for Valentines Day ;-)
Hannibal ad portas
- The Russians are coming
non possumus
- no way!
whoa ibi asinus
- whoa there donkey!
si hic carrus commovet non quaerete
- if this cart is a-rockin, don’t come a-knocking ( literally:if this cart is moving thoroughly, dont ask)
(LoL !!)
paete non dolet
- don’t worry, it doesn’t hurt
panem et circenses
- bread and circus games
optat supremo collocare Sisphus in monte saxum
- someone up there doesn’t love me
maior e longinquo reverentia
- no man is a hero to his valet
sis noli volvivooluptatem comprimerem
- please don’t squeeze the Charmin
atque memento nulli Romanorum qui locutionem tuam corrigant
- and remember, there aren’t any Romans around to correct your pronounciation
iam est satis superque linguae Latinae-Fatuinae edamus
- so enough already with the latin-schmatin, let’s eat
en habeasne forte in hac domo vomitorium
- um, do you happen to have a vomitorium in this house? (LoL!)
si in animis habeatis scidam latrinariam in domo mea ponere, vosmet rogate si possitis velocius currere quam saxum quod vadit cum celeritate nonaginta milia passuum per horam
- If you’re thinking of putting toilet paper on my house, ask yourself if you can outrun a ninety-mile-an-hour rock.
si bibam hanc cerevesiam, quae speciem insolitam praebet, urinane mea eveniet quoque viridans?
- If I drink this funny-looking beer, will my pee turn green, too?
Id in tres partes dividamus ut videamus utrum quis id vincat, necne!
- Let’s divide it into three parts and see if anybody conquers it!
sanctos subiunctivos, Vivespertilio!
- Holy subjunctives, Batman!
sit simplex, stulte
- keep it simple, stupid
cogito, ergo sum
- I think, therefore I am.
sum ergo edo
- I am, therefore I eat.
cogito ergo doleo
- I think, therefore I am depressed.
cogito sumere potum alterum
- I think I’ll have another drink.
nonne hiems quae incendiis magnis multisque belli inter gentes omnes tertii inducatur inhibeat orbem terrarum ne nimium calescat
- Wouldn’t nuclear winter cancel out the greenhouse effect?
fac me cocleario vomere
- Gag me with a spoon!
audite: modo de colosseo rationem interfectorum recentissimam cognovi- Leonibus triginta duo Chrisitanis nihil clepsydra addita ad spatium mortis subitae
- Listen: I just got the latest score from the Colosseum- Lions 32, Christians 0, in a sudden-death overtime!
ullamne subuculam geris
- are you wearing anything under that sheet?
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