Ambulabam praeter asylum insanarum personarum otro die, et omnes aegrorum clamabant, "Tredecim! Tredecim! Tredecim!"
Saepes erat altior quam super videri, sed lacunam parvam in tabulis vidi et pervidi cavum videre quid accideret.
Qui nothus cum baculo me in oculo fodit.
Tum omnes inceperunt clamare, "Quattuordecim! Quattuordecim! Quattuordecim!”
a joke that only wintergreen may find amusing
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a joke that only wintergreen may find amusing
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
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Re: a joke that only wintergreen may find amusing
earendel wrote:Ambulabam praeter asylum insanarum personarum otro die, et omnes aegrorum clamabant, "Tredecim! Tredecim! Tredecim!"
Saepes erat altior quam super videri, sed lacunam parvam in tabulis vidi et pervidi cavum videre quid accideret.
Qui nothus cum baculo me in oculo fodit.
Tum omnes inceperunt clamare, "Quattuordecim! Quattuordecim! Quattuordecim!”
I don't think he's around. I heard he joined sirge protecting our borders.
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.
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Re: a joke that only wintergreen may find amusing
BIF along with some more latinate humor:
From: J Jarvis (jay.jarvis gmail.com)
Subject: Nugatory
You have finally AWADed what might be the best word in the English language. I am a judge, and, due to what most would probably consider a warped sense of humor, love to use Latin maxims and Latinate phrases (perhaps due to taking five years of Latin).
On one occasion I responded to a young attorney's argument by observing that a case she had cited had been overruled, "thereby rendering it nugatory." She gave me a confused stare. She later came up to me to confess that she had thought I had said that the case was "rendering it a noogie."
From: J Jarvis (jay.jarvis gmail.com)
Subject: Nugatory
You have finally AWADed what might be the best word in the English language. I am a judge, and, due to what most would probably consider a warped sense of humor, love to use Latin maxims and Latinate phrases (perhaps due to taking five years of Latin).
On one occasion I responded to a young attorney's argument by observing that a case she had cited had been overruled, "thereby rendering it nugatory." She gave me a confused stare. She later came up to me to confess that she had thought I had said that the case was "rendering it a noogie."
I believe in the usefulness of useless information.
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Re: a joke that only wintergreen may find amusing
Meh. It's about as funny as a poke in the eye.earendel wrote:Ambulabam praeter asylum insanarum personarum otro die, et omnes aegrorum clamabant, "Tredecim! Tredecim! Tredecim!"
Saepes erat altior quam super videri, sed lacunam parvam in tabulis vidi et pervidi cavum videre quid accideret.
Qui nothus cum baculo me in oculo fodit.
Tum omnes inceperunt clamare, "Quattuordecim! Quattuordecim! Quattuordecim!”
On the other hand, here's something that I find amusing, and it COULD involve a poke in the eye, but this is a very clean and proper version, with polite poking.
Nantucketensis ridebat
Penem longiormen sugebat:
Si auris machina
Aut potens vagina
Libenter ingredi potebat.
Innocent, naive and whimsical. And somewhat footloose and fancy-free.