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Re: Latin humour |
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Mariu--------mbria <a href="/po--------ovaroma?protectID=034056178009193116148218000036129208" >legion6@--------</a> |
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Sun, 12 Sep 1999 04:46:45 -0500 (CDT) |
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** Marius Fimbria goes PING!! **
...I have one!! I actually saw this in the local town paper for
Alameda, CA:
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A guy in a toga walks into a bar. He gets the bartender's attention
and says, 'I'll have a martinus, please.' The bartender says 'Don't
you mean martini...?'
...and the Roman says, 'Sir, if I want two or more I'll ask for them!'
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(the -i ending in Latin usually being the plural of a word whose
singular form ends in -us...)
...See? That didn't hurt...much...did it...? (Hey!?! Put down that
onion...!!??)
** takes off running, a largish quantity of overripe fruit not far
enough behind him!! **
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Lucius Marius Fimbria |>[SPQR]<|
mka Märia Villarroel |\=/|
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bein' a Roman... It's hard work, _|_| / _/_| /`(
but SOMEbody's gotta do it!!' /./..=' /./..'
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| Subject: |
Re: Re: Latin humour |
| From: |
Asseri@-------- |
| Date: |
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:28:20 EDT |
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In a message dated 9/12/99 4:47:01 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
<a href="/po--------ovaroma?protectID=034056178009193116148218000036129208" >legion6@--------</a> write--------r>
<< A guy in a toga walks into a bar. He gets the bartender's attention
and says, 'I'll have a martinus, please.' The bartender says 'Don't
you mean martini...?'
...and the Roman says, 'Sir, if I want two or more I'll ask for them!'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
(the -i ending in Latin usually being the plural of a word whose
singular form ends in -us...)
>>
that old joke is also in a high school play called "blood on my Toga" It sort
of a Sam Spade spoof. WE did each year in Latin class and a yearly gathering
of Latin Classes in Northern Indiana. We got too tired of it one year we
started it with "In a galaxy far far away on a small planet called Earth in
the Noble City of Rome"
Olivia In Indiana
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| Subject: |
Re: Sterculinus |
| From: |
Cassius622@-------- |
| Date: |
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:48:55 EDT |
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In a message dated 9/10/99 2:11:38 AM EST, L. Licinius Varro Murena,
(<a href="/post/novaroma?protectID=081166091180193192130061163101147165026048139046" >varromurena@--------</a>) writes:
> Doing a bit of reading lately, I came across a rather
interesting Roman god. Just out of curiosity, does
anyone have as a gens deity the god Sterculinus?
Probably not, unless they own a farm and do a lot of fertalizing! ;)
Sterculinus was a Roman god of fertilization, (literally, fertilizing with
animal dung) and was "called upon" in the planting season rather than
worshipped. While I'm not at home and can't look up a full reference on this,
I believe he was one of seven or eight gods "mentioned" during the process of
preparing, tilling and sowing fields. Very probably this was a holdover from
a very early time when agriculture itself was considered to be as much a
magical process as anything.
Valete,
Marcus Cassius Julianus
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| Subject: |
Re: Latin Humour |
| From: |
"Nicolaus Moravius" n_moravius@-------- |
| Date: |
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:07:50 PDT |
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Salvete, Quiritii!
Scripsit Magister:
>Vado's latest reminds me of something from my schooldays (we started latin
>at age 9, so were about at this humour-level, <AMPUTATIO>
Et nunc ego respondeo:
- So what you're saying, is, Magister, that I've got the mental attributes
of a nine-year-old?! ):-(
- I have only this to say in reply: you smell, and you're not my friend any
more, so nyahh! ):-P
Valete,
Vado (working on a laptop under the bedclothes 'cause it's long past his
bedtime).
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