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21 comments

1. # Posted by John Cowan on Jun 28th, 2006 at 3:04 pm

   The first F in RMS’s speech dropped off somehow: it should be “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”.

2. # Posted by john on Jun 28th, 2006 at 3:25 pm

   Fixed. Thanks John.

   That is what we call a distributed proof-reading system. Worked perfectly ;)

3. # Posted by Tim on Jun 28th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

   Let them hate so long as they fear.

   False in one thing, false in everything.

   No one wounds me with impunity.

   It is a wise man who speaks little.

   Oh, was I speaking latin?

4. # Posted by Johannes Kekkonen on Jun 28th, 2006 at 8:04 pm

   FFS those eyebrows! :D And who’s the guy in the shirt?

5. # Posted by Andy on Jun 28th, 2006 at 9:07 pm

   I just clicked on the esr.ibilio.org link and had a look. Is that really Eric Raymond’s blog? What a tosser! No wonder this strip exists.

6. # Posted by core on Jun 28th, 2006 at 10:39 pm

   The guy on the shirt is Bruce Schneier (author of “Applied Cryptography”).

7. # Posted by AC on Jun 29th, 2006 at 7:45 am

   I thought it was Zakk Wylde. Or Kerry King.

8. # Posted by Ithika on Jun 29th, 2006 at 11:53 am

   Uncompromisingly geeky episode. Cheers! :)

9. # Posted by Folkert van Heusden on Jun 29th, 2006 at 2:25 pm

   Hopefully one day my face will be on that shirt. Then finally I’ll be close to Linus and also world-famous.

10. # Posted by Jeff Read on Jun 30th, 2006 at 1:18 am

    I thought the guy on his shirt was Chuck Norris, myself.

11. # Posted by bq on Jun 30th, 2006 at 1:53 am

    Andy said: “I just clicked on the esr.ibilio.org link and had a look. Is that really Eric Raymond’s blog? What a tosser! No wonder this strip exists.”

    Yeah I know man. That was my reaction too. :) When I look at such things I like to imagine (and sometimes sing in a throaty alto) fairground music.

    The strip – ahhhh latin, glorious latin – which I tried to learn once and gave up. Hmmm. renewed motivation.

12. # Posted by M D Bouchard on Jun 30th, 2006 at 3:56 am

    As someone who tattooed Latin on her back (out of sheer love for it), I appreciate this strip so much more than you can realize!

13. # Posted by Matthew Hall on Jul 6th, 2006 at 10:10 pm

    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

14. # Posted by meowhous on Jul 17th, 2006 at 9:05 pm

    I suppose nobody else remembers “Raymond’s Reviews”…

15. # Posted by meowhous on Jul 17th, 2006 at 10:53 pm

    Finally found a ref:
    http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf-lovers/browse_frm/thread/8461a85edee98fcd/c2377eb0e8b9aa7a?lnk=st&q=&rnum=111#c2377eb0e8b9aa7a

    But I can’t find the one where he uses hoity-toity terms like “roman a clef” and other liberalartsyfartsy words.

16. # Posted by John Cowan on Aug 15th, 2006 at 8:05 pm

    If anyone cares, the full Raymond’s Reviews can be found at http://catb.org/~esr/sfreviews/ . They’re fairly sane.

17. # Posted by Adam on Aug 22nd, 2006 at 4:59 pm

    Matthew: That should be “videtur”. “videre” is verb of the second conjugation. (This strip just demands that I be at my utmost Latin geekiness.)

18. # Posted by Grimnir on Nov 19th, 2006 at 9:35 am

    Latin is a language,
    As dead as can be.
    First it killed the Romans,
    And now it’s killing me.

    Ah, good old fortune.

19. # Posted by Puerla on Mar 30th, 2007 at 11:54 am

    Mihi bene placet!

20. # Posted by Phil on May 28th, 2007 at 9:37 am

    I came to this a bit late, but all I can say is…

    CALIGULA???? ESR QUOTES *CALIGULA* AS AN IDEAL EXAMPLE FOR FOREIGN POLICY???? FUCKTARD!

    Ahem. Sorry. Had to say it.

    I read crap like that, well, that’s why I can’t bring myself to bother reading ‘The Bazaar and the Cathedral’.

21. # Posted by Jim Thompson on Apr 24th, 2008 at 2:54 am

    Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt.

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