Gaius Octavius

BTW watch out for GO , he is round the corner from you, and is a Neapolitan-American tough guy.. Pertinax, Thanks for that link (I love 3-D pie charts. No, seriously, I do). Oh, by the way, I too am Neapolitan -- all four of my grandparents are from the same small town a few miles to the west of Naples. However, I am most definitely not a tough guy (though I was utterly ruthless to the Scipii and Brutii factions when I played the Julii in "Rome Total War"). Pay no attention whatsoever to My Lord of the Weeds. He's from Rhaetia. Don Tomasso

YOU'RE ALL LOCKED UP!

Hear, hear!!!! As for our dear Pertinax - I can vouch that he is a good old Northern lad (if a very suave one) with one of those lovely accents full of character that I was on about in another thread....HE'S A WEED PURVEYER, TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT SHEEPS! I'm with GPM on this, Don Tomato - how dare you accuse him of being anything other than a Brigantian? FROM RHAETIA! *GASP* Brigantum doesn't recognize the Geneva Convention???? You BARBARIAN SWINE! The G-Man has lapsed into a phase of complete sanity! Join up with my other recruits, and we'll make some major adjustments to their demeanor's - AGAIN! Capt. Blackadder

Dear Ms. Praebitorae: After careful consideration of the events surrounding your claim, we regret to advise you that we will be unable to offer you any reimbursement in this matter. Sincerely, The Insurance Guy PS - Nanner, nanner, boo, boo What else is new! Insurance only pays off if the covered event occurs on Feb. 30 in a year evenly divided by 9 with a full Moon when the coo-coos are out!

Mmmmmmmm gee let me think?????? The Colonials are coming to make some major adjustments on your outlooks.

Proof Positive! Case closed!

In for a ha' penny, in for a farthing. Correct me if I am wrong. Didn't we Colonials make major adjustments to your cockles in a couple of wars? I guess that this means all out war. Here come the Minute Men.

Ye gods!, surely it's Agrippina the Elder!

Sounds like the cure for disclatopoea to me.

My children, maps don't lie. All is made clear. P. and the rest of you are Rhaetians. It is my present understanding that y'all have three horns on the backs of your heads, and blue spots on your rumps. My Lord of the Weeds is in league with Maria Uspenskya to bring down mankind.

Since a goddess is the only thing that will satisfy her , we'll have to come up with a goddess. Hera springs to mind. One of you 'Latin' types will have to do the foot work.

When you get an air conditioner, you can add A/C after your other titles, Doll.

...for a non english speaker, would that sound something like Seinfeld? (oops, i mean Elaine ) No, I don't sound like Elaine. While the actress who plays Elaine is of Jewish descent, the character of Elaine is a shiksa -- with shiksappeal. I've been told I sound like the character Gracie Hart in the movie Miss Congeniality: "I'm sorry. I had a bite of my bagel and I forgot to pray. Dear Jesus, please forgive me... ...for not praying before I had a bite of my bagel and schmeer. Thank you very much. Amen." -- Nephele My Bride had to tell me what a 'shiksa' is: A non-Jewish female. In NYC you'd better know what a 'schmeer' is: Cream cheese on a bagel (with lox, of course). 'Schmata', a rag; a$10,000 dress that a Jewish American Princess (JAP) hasn't returned to Sak's Fifth Avenue. To really go . If you ever get the chance to go to a Jewish wake, do so to the exclusion of all else. They put out a spread that is a joy to the palate.

Herpes? Gonorrhea?

Pertinax has been putting us on! Makes believe that he is a Brit! Nonsense! Take a look here [to the right of the big word (HEL)VETII]: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gaze.../Rhaetia/1.html

Maybe this will help a very little: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roma...A/Law/home.html

Nice work Doc.

Big A, I am a little confused. Are you saying that an Aztec grammar can be produced?

I've been resisting doing MPC because there are no primary sources to confirm that he dressed like a Goth. Au contraire. The primary sources say that Cato wore the toga pulla, a black toga that would certainly have qualified as dressing like a Goth. Apparently, senators found his toga quite fetching: I wonder what the 'secondary sources' say? G-Man?

That's great G-Man! I go for 'Whistle Blower'. Thanks for half of the answer, Big A.

I don't know if this will go to the 'WHY' as much as it will go to the 'HOW'. Take the thread about you, and Domina Nomina's reply: Manchester Maven. The word 'maven' has become a part of English as it is spoken in N.Y. City. Most everyone knows that it expresses much more than any simple English word. So why bother with a complex English term. The same for 'Rabbi', a person who helps one in his career. 'Schlemiel', an easy mark or a 'know-it-all' who knows nothing. These terms are used by the large Jewish population in NYC and the rest can't help but pick them up. They make good, easy sense (to us). I know that I am a 'goy', but I am not quite sure what that means. Probably an insult. My spell checker picked up my erroneous spelling of 'schlemeel'; passed on 'maven', but not 'goy'. Don't know if these are in the O.E.D. The same with the Neapolitan 'schaff'(?), to jam into. I am sure that the above is no more than an iota of a proper answer to your question.

Ik hou van jou. De grootjes,

Salve, GO. Something like Mamucium Maius, for example? You know very well that I have absolutely no idea what that means!

I mean a title like your Domina Nomina!

I couldn't help but share this with you all. Turn your speakers on. http://oldfortyfives.com/CarsWeDrove.htm