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Credit to Jim Thompson, who constructed most of that Latin.
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Remember, you can contribute to ELER using the ELER Wiki or just e-mailing in ideas and photos.
Credit to Jim Thompson, who constructed most of that Latin.
21 replies on “Highbrow my culus”
The first F in RMS’s speech dropped off somehow: it should be “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”.
Fixed. Thanks John.
That is what we call a distributed proof-reading system. Worked perfectly ;)
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?
FFS those eyebrows! :D And who’s the guy in the shirt?
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.
The guy on the shirt is Bruce Schneier (author of “Applied Cryptography”).
I thought it was Zakk Wylde. Or Kerry King.
Uncompromisingly geeky episode. Cheers! :)
Hopefully one day my face will be on that shirt. Then finally I’ll be close to Linus and also world-famous.
I thought the guy on his shirt was Chuck Norris, myself.
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.
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!
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
I suppose nobody else remembers “Raymond’s Reviews”…
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.
If anyone cares, the full Raymond’s Reviews can be found at http://catb.org/~esr/sfreviews/ . They’re fairly sane.
Matthew: That should be “videtur”. “videre” is verb of the second conjugation. (This strip just demands that I be at my utmost Latin geekiness.)
Latin is a language,
As dead as can be.
First it killed the Romans,
And now it’s killing me.
Ah, good old fortune.
Mihi bene placet!
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’.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscripti catapultas habebunt.