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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 07/17/2004 : 10:08:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by rickm
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. If you will not give me all of the money, I will fling an enormous rock at your head.
Well done! It's sort of an ancient Roman bank robber's note (hehe), and I see you've stumbeled across the same site I did whilst trying to hunt up lost references. Good'n, ain't it?
I was thinking of changing 'catapult' to 'trebuchet', that most magnificent of seige engines, but these weren't known in Roman times. But can you imagine robbing a bank with a trebuchet?!
Message me an address and I will send you a genuine and sumptious De Naploi stogie!
However, DO NOT tell the M/C club upon pain of catapult. Those iggnernt bastards need the intellectual excersize.
In truth, I didn't think the mystery would last long here. Too many smart people in residence. 
Edited to share the site with all:
http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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rickm
Skeptic Friend
Canada
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Posted - 07/17/2004 : 10:54:31 [Permalink]
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Filthy:
http://www.geocities.com/latinpage2001/index.html
This is where I found the translation using google.
I'm not much of a cigar smoker myself, the odd time I will smoke a cuban cigar but much prefer smoking a pipe, and cigarettes of course. Personally I have not aquired the taste for good cigars and really can not tell the difference between a fine cigar or a cheap one. Although I appreciate your offer, perhaps it would be better enjoyed by someone who shares an appreciation for fine cigars.
It would be quite funny to see someone try to rob a bank with a trebuchet though. What would even be funnier is how they could remain inconspicuous (not something you could hide in a trenchcoat very easily) while bringing it to the bank to be robbed.
I downloaded plans on the internet once on how to build cardboard trebuchets, never got around to doing it though. |
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
-- Woody Allen, Without Feathers, 1975 |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/17/2004 : 14:24:36 [Permalink]
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:laughter: You guys are too much! :laughter:
A De Napoli cigar is what is called in the venacular, a Guinea Stinker, 'cause origionally, they're Italian. I love 'em, those odd times that I smoke tobacco (mostly, I dip snuff or chew). Dom Parodi is another good'n.
I smoke perhaps 1/2 of one, cut off the cinders, then chew the delicilous remander. Yum.
Yes, I am slightly mad.
'K. I'll save the stogie for whichever lout figgers it out in the M/C club, which I am off to for a meeting shortly.
Rickm, thanks for the link. I don't have time to check it out now, but will tomorrow.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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N C More
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 07/23/2004 : 18:46:51 [Permalink]
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http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Well, some folks will believe anything if it's presented correctly. Just look at the "dangers" surrounding this substance! |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 07/23/2004 : 19:18:38 [Permalink]
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quote:
N C More:
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
Well, some folks will believe anything if it's presented correctly. Just look at the "dangers" surrounding this substance!
Darn! Now what am I going to use to make my coffee? |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/23/2004 : 19:52:04 [Permalink]
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| wow, that joke has expanded a bit :) Funny stuff! |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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