What made YOU laugh today/tonight ?

[Haribol]

26 minutes ago, zerostao said:

  

 

Teach me Russian 🤩

[Haribol]

29 minutes ago, zerostao said:

  

 

Apperantly this is how it works here:

 

[Haribol]

@Nungali

how does one speak vegemite?

[Nungali]

1 hour ago, Haribol said:

@Nungali

how does one speak vegemite?

 

Well, of course  AI can explain that for you  ; 

 

 

[Nungali]

 

'' Hey ... glad you liked that  song brother ..... you got two dollar for me ?''

 

'' Why should I give you two dollars ? ''

 

'' Are you a Christian ? ''

 

'' Yeah ... so what ?  ''

 

'' Well ..... Mark  12:15-17 

 

Spoiler

 

[liminal_luke]

[Haribol]

6 hours ago, liminal_luke said:

You burn them  

[Sanity Check]

"Arguing over doomsday end of times prophecy is like arguing over what timestamp the Titanic will sink in the movie Titanic."

 

"It doesn't matter the day or time, you know the ship is destined to sink."

 

 

Edited November 9 by Sanity Check

[Haribol]

 

https://facebook.com/groups/999877448800068/
^hilarious group in case some would like to brighten up their feed.

Edited November 24 by Haribol

[Nungali]

Well ... Man was made in the image of God after all    

[zerostao]

 

 

This is not a Monty Python skit.

[zerostao]

 

[Taomeow]

Everybody knows paper newspapers are in decline -- but this article appeared last Friday in the San Diego Union Tribune both in its paper version delivered to subscribers and the digital online version.

 

The article itself is in Latin (not the first, second, or 100th most spoken language around here), and its title seems to clash with the editors' attempt at classically educating the readers, if that's what they had in mind.

    

[liminal_luke]

1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

 

The article itself is in Latin 

    

 

I missed my calling -- shoulda been a journalist.  When writing for English-speaking audiences, I never accidently slip into foreign tongues, and certainly not Latin.  Well, maybe a phrase or two for "texture and color" -- porque no? -- but never an entire paragraph.  

Edited Monday at 08:24 PM by liminal_luke

[Taomeow]

13 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

 

I missed my calling -- shoulda been a journalist.  When writing for English-speaking audiences, I never accidently slip into foreign tongues, and certainly not Latin.  Well, maybe a phrase or two for "texture and color" -- porque no? -- but never an entire paragraph.  

 

I have some random Latin in my head from the university course, but the last time I was able to read the news in Latin was circa the Bello Gallico time -- which was current events around 50 BC.    

[liminal_luke]

My favorite high school English teacher had a plaque on her desk sporting the words illegetimi non carborundum. She was an unusually self-possessed person, someone who took that motto to heart.  I´ve since read that the phrase isn´t actually proper Latin but it does come in handy from time to time, especially here on the forum and elsewhere online.  

Edited Monday at 08:56 PM by liminal_luke

[Mark Foote]

1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

Everybody knows paper newspapers are in decline -- but this article appeared last Friday in the San Diego Union Tribune both in its paper version delivered to subscribers and the digital online version.

 

The article itself is in Latin (not the first, second, or 100th most spoken language around here), and its title seems to clash with the editors' attempt at classically educating the readers, if that's what they had in mind.

    

 

 

 

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Edited Monday at 09:18 PM by Mark Foote

[Taomeow]

16 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

My favorite high school English teacher had a plaque on her desk sporting the words illegetimi non carborundum. She was an unusually self-possessed person, someone who took that motto to heart.  I´ve since read that the phrase isn´t actually proper Latin but it does come in handy from time to time, especially here on the forum and elsewhere online.  

 

Yes, it's a wise saying even thought it's fake Latin.  A motto especially apt for a high school teacher to live by.      

 

There's a whole bunch of not quite real Latin proverbs I remember, some "almost" the real thing...  like, Lingua Latina non est penis canina.  And a friend, a med student at the time, once commented in all seriousness when we were planning a picnic in the woods and it started raining, Per aspera ad anus.   This one has since become my favorite expression for when things one carefully plans and looks forward to go bust for whatever reason.  It's exactly the same idea which Shakespeare expressed in his characteristic, much more flowery way:

And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.

[Taomeow]

9 minutes ago, Mark Foote said:

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Yes, that was explained under the story post factum, and redditors also explained that it happened because the newspaper laid off everybody who used to be responsible for these things not happening.  (Not its first rodeo with sloppiness.)  

 

 

[Nungali]

2 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

I have some random Latin in my head from the university course, but the last time I was able to read the news in Latin was circa the Bello Gallico time -- which was current events around 50 BC.    

 

Random Latin in the head     most of it has finally evaporated  . But you get a LOT of that if you where a little catholic kid in church back 'then' ... long gruelling painful Mass in Latin   .... ( ''Whats that guy doing up there ... what is he saying ?  Now he is making one of those 'air crosses' over us and telling us to dominate    '  vov-vo biscuits '  ?  

 

an iced vo-vo biscuit 

 

 

and we were supposed to say  '  we will come and spit on you '     

 

 

 

(  Priest ;  '' "Dominus vobiscum" People ;  '' "Et cum spiritu tuo"   )  

[Taomeow]

@Nungali  This song was probably written by one of those former little catholic kids -- just the way they heard it. 

I think it's brilliant, phonetically and poetically. 

 

 

 

[Nungali]

and I liked it when you posted it before too ...

 

Nothing like a gopher tuna !  

 

Actually, if I went to an orchestra  choir  performance and they sang those words .... a bit like a catholic high Mass    

 

 

 

Everyone gets   a vovo biscuit !  (or some gopher tuna )