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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
 I never heard that one before! Very clever! (From Latin for All Occasions, by Henry Beard) -- my favorite: Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt. When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.

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Carpal Tunnel
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Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? - Oh! Was I speaking Latin again?
It's Latin's illusions I recall. I really don't know Latin at all. I really don't.
Should that be "Denuove" ?
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O sibile, se ergo! Fortibus es in ero. Nobile! Demis trux! Vatis inem. Causan dux.
This appears to me to be a song praising the virtues of a young maiden. Here's my stab at it:
Oh Sybil, you go girl! Your strength is like a noble fir. Humble child, Semi-wild, Prophet, poet, Leader, Guide.
How did I do, Magister Tsuwm?
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O sibile, se ergo! Fortibus es in ero. Nobile! Demis trux! Vatis inem. Causan dux.
How'd you do? Not very well.
O Cybil, se her go. Forty buses in a row. No, Bill, them is trucks. What is in 'em? Cows and ducks.
I learnt it as:
Lucat, bene derdego. Honet bus es inero. Honomo, demis trux. Summit causin, summit dux.
TEd
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O sibile, se ergo...
Oh see, Billy, see 'er go... ?
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This appears to me to be a song praising the virtues of a young maiden. Aw, C'mon you guys! You didn't think I was serious, did you??? Tongue was firmly planted in cheek. 
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I know a "Spanish" version of it:
Si, Senor, dere diego Forte lores in aro Dere no lores, de is truqs Fola cous an shep an dux!
- Pfranz
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Oh see, Billy, see 'er go... ?
that's the ticket
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