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Are We Rome? Tu Betchus!

hulitoons

Posted: 11 October 2008 07:27 PM

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Are We Rome? Tu Betchus!

By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: October 11, 2008

With modernity crumbling, our thoughts turn to antiquity.

The decline and fall of the American Empire echoes the experience of the Romans, who also tumbled into the trap of becoming overleveraged empire hussies.

As our sand-castle economy washes away under the tide of bad gambles and debts, this most self-indulgent society lurches toward stoicism (even bankrupt Iceland gives us the cold shoulder and turns to a solvent superpower). It

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What a king must suffer? For he knows, deep down in his heart, that he is a poor, cheap, wormy thing like the rest of us, a sarcasm, the Creator’s prime miscarriage in inventions, the moral inferior of all the animals…the superior of them all in one gift only, and that one not up to his estimation of it—-intellect.
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LaMa

Posted: 11 October 2008 10:53 PM

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Alas. All I remember of my one year of Latin is “Serpens in Horto Est!”......

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man - George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it - George Bernard Shaw

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hulitoons

Posted: 12 October 2008 04:46 AM

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It’s not really Latin LaMa (I’m sure you figured that out) but fun mock Latin. It’s hilarious when you dissamble it

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What a king must suffer? For he knows, deep down in his heart, that he is a poor, cheap, wormy thing like the rest of us, a sarcasm, the Creator’s prime miscarriage in inventions, the moral inferior of all the animals…the superior of them all in one gift only, and that one not up to his estimation of it—-intellect.
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

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