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#159896 05/24/2006 6:50 PM
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Any offerings? Still hoping to work ignoratio elenchi into a topic one day but prospects look sparse.


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#159897 05/24/2006 6:57 PM
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'Audio, video, disco'

#159898 05/24/2006 7:55 PM
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I've been hoping for verba sapienti sat sufficit and inter faeces et urinas nascimur, but you know, what with civilization being de(con)structed ...


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#159899 05/24/2006 8:44 PM
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A gay bar in Chelsea (Manhattan):

Vidi Vici Veni

#159900 05/24/2006 9:51 PM
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I've had plenty of opportunities to use ut si.

#159901 05/24/2006 11:31 PM
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sic, cum ligula me purga.


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#159902 05/25/2006 10:19 AM
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sic, cum ligula me purga.




¿Hwæt, you clean yourself by your own bootstraps?

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res ipsa loquitur.


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Saxa loquitur.


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#159905 05/25/2006 2:14 PM
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¿Hwæt?

Gag me with a spoon. Some idioms don't translate well. (Ah, Moon Unit, where are you?)


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res ipsa loquitur.




I wish I would have said that.

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res ipsa loquitur.


-Like this one the best so far. Not sure why; it just seems like an obvious favorite. At least not too grim to save in a Rolodex.


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#159908 05/25/2006 2:32 PM
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Vere®, latinam non est loqui dificilissimum.

#159909 05/25/2006 3:30 PM
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Nos morituri salutamus!

#159910 05/25/2006 8:11 PM
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Oh, I dunno. I figure qualis artifex faeces tauri pereo should be the Board motto!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...
#159911 05/25/2006 9:37 PM
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Si nummus loquitur pauper tacet.

#159912 05/26/2006 12:07 AM
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Faciendi plures libros nullus est finis

~Ecclesiates 12:12

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piggo piggere squeali gruntum

flunko flunkere faculti bouncem

#159914 05/28/2006 8:59 AM
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O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses

#159915 05/29/2006 5:29 AM
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Faciendi plures libros nullus est finis




Nullus in verba

#159916 05/30/2006 4:03 PM
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Tinniat Tinniat Tintinabulum!

#159917 05/30/2006 8:03 PM
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Tinniat Tinniat Tintinabulum!




we've had others here who took to conversing
with themselves; mostly, this is not a good sign.


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