Nephele

No actual anagrams, but there are certainly Latin words to be found in there. Did you remember to check "Yes" for the "Show candidate word list only" option? Your full name yields these three words of the longest length: MERERE: to deserve, earn, obtain. ARMARE: to provide with arms. SERERE: to join together, put in a row, connect. I choose merere for you. :wub: -- Nephele

Birthday hails to you, Viggen! Bring on the dancing bananas! -- Nephele

WOW! Aw, you had me goin' there, for a moment! :wub: -- Nephele

WORD! Turn on speakers and clicky here -- Nephele

GPM, it's always a pleasure to do you. (screen name) AUXILIUM: help, aid, assistance. (actual name) NAVIGARE: to sail. -- Nephele the Pale

I would never trust a VP Chief of Staff with the nickname of "Scooter". You just know that, sooner or later, he's going to pee on the linoleum and you'll have to holler "BAD Scooter!" and smack him with a rolled-up newspaper. (I'll bet he's even more obnoxious after he's done his business and he "scoots" his butt across the carpet.) -- Nephele

The documentary aired the same night as HBO's Rome where I live. Rome won in my house. Like you, I'm atheist and also suspected the whole thing was a publicity stunt. Cameron's bumper sticker must read: "I found Jesus! Really!" -- Nephele

I got out my handy Cassell's, and here are the definitions for anyone who doesn't know Latin or who doesn't have a handy Cassell's or equivalent of their own: Gaius Octavius (actual name) LAMENTATIO: a lamenting, weeping, wailing. (screen name): VITIOSUS: faulty, defective, corrupt, bad. This doesn't suit you, G.O., but some Republicans may say it suits the Caesars. Kosmo (actual name) SANCTIMONIA: sanctity, sacredness. (screen name) MOS: the will, humour, inclination. The Augusta (actual name) LEGATIO: the post of deputy, delegated authority. (screen name) STATUA: a statue, image. Thanks for playing! Anyone else want to play? EDIT: Okay, couldn't resist. Here are a few screen names I looked up. M. Porcius Cato COMPATIOR: to suffer or undergo something with someone else. Pantagathus PAGANUS: belonging to a village, rural. Primus Pilus SUSPIRIUM: a deep breath, a sigh. -- Nephele the Pale

Not quite. Pertinax is right in that you could have problems from blocking all your pores that way. You wouldn't die of "skin suffocation", though. You could eventually die of overheating. Snopes.com debunked the Goldfinger asphyxiation tale. -- Nephele

What's the longest word in Latin that you can get out of your name? And, does it describe you? Check out this anagram engine and find out! Step 1: Type either your screen name or your actual name in the box for "Input (word/phrase to be anagrammed)" Step 2: Select "Latin" from the drop-down menu for "Generate anagrams in this language" Step 3: Select "Yes" for "Show candidate word list only" Step 4: Click on "Find Anagrams" I discovered that the longest word in Latin that I can get out of "Nephele Carnalis" is pallescere, which I looked up in my Latin dictionary and found that it means "to grow pale; turn pale; lose color". That's so spooky, because it fits me! What's yours? -- Nephele the Pale

Heheh, you can tell who all the delightful ghouls are around here, from reading this topic. I think you could die from being tarred, if not feathered. Although a lot of the familiar accounts of tarring and feathering involve the victim being tarred over his protective clothing, the tar would be hot enough to cause severe burns if applied directly to bare skin. If the victim was stripped first and then the boiled, liquefied tar applied to the bare skin of his entire body, head and face included... There's an episode in Deadwood in which a character is nearly tarred and feathered. The thugs who commit the assault don't get any farther than tarring the poor guy's bare shoulder before Sheriff Bullock stops them. But, later on, we see Calamity Jane administering to the victim, literally ripping off his skin along with the solidified chunks of tar that have adhered to it. Imagine, even with the aid of a solvent, having to remove that from one's entire, burned body? -- Nephele

Couldn't resist... David Letterman quoted from "The Late Show with David Letterman": "James Cameron thinks that he found the tomb of Jesus Christ. To me, that's very interesting. Who would have guessed that they'd find Jesus before bin Laden?"

Thanks! Have already updated you on the comparative list. Still waiting to hear from the following: Pertinax: Rooster or Weasel? Pantagathus: Otter or Wildcat? Jasminia: Wild Cat, Fox, or Swan? G.O. -- Jasminia's got to choose from the above! But if she doesn't, you can choose from one of those three for her. Plus, anyone else here want to join the menagerie? Ah, cool. Thanks again, Moonlapse! It'll be interesting to see how the Meyers-Briggs results compare with the various animal personalities. -- Nephele

Congrats on being an INTP. You're in the same class of people as Pertinax and Pantagathus. I seem to get along well with that type. I am actually an INTJ. Cool! This new test deserves a split-off topic of its own! I'd like to see what others here happen to be. -- Nephele

That's too many questions! Oh, aaaall right... You guessed correctly, Dr. Ursus. My Type is INTP: Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving D. Keirsey calls my type "The Architect Rational (iNTp)" RATIONAL IDEALIST ARTISAN GUARDIAN "Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the structural engineering role -- architechtonics -- that reaches the highest development in these Rationals, and it is for this reason they are aptly called the 'Architects.' Their major interest is in figuring out structure, build, configuration -- the spatiality of things." Joe Butt (*snort!* *snicker* love the name) writes: "INTPs are pensive, analytical folks. They may venture so deeply into thought as to seem detached, and often actually are oblivious to the world around them." Okay, so what are yooooo, Ursus? (Hah! INTP, too, I'll bet!) -- Nephele

Ursus, you're using this test to torture your workmates? Niiiiice! -- Nephele

Bored at home from being sick? No. I'm venting all my frustration at the doctors in the hospital by torturing all of YOU here! Bwahahaha! -- Nephele

MPC, I've got you updated. Jasminia's a lovely beastie, too -- either wild cat, fox, or swan. I need everyone to make up their minds soon, for some new devilment I'm planning involving all this, which I cannot yet reveal. *evil cackle*. Pertinax, Pantagathus, Jasminia, and Moonlapse! If you don't tell me soon which animal is MOSTLY you (from the choices you got), then I'm going to let Gaius Octavius cast the deciding vote! You have been warned! Pertinax: Rooster or Weasel? Pantagathus: Otter or Wildcat? Jasminia: Wild Cat, Fox, or Swan? Moonlapse: Fox or Wild Cat? -- Nephele

Here's one just for the guys. This was a form of torture employed by the Viet Cong: Force a glass rod up into the urethra of the victim. Stomp on victim's penis, shattering glass within. -- Nephele

Divi Filius and Julius Ratus, I've added you both to the comparative list on page 2 of this thread. And have revised Gaius Octavius. Still waiting for the following to make up their minds as to which animal they are: Pertinax: Rooster or Weasel? Pantagathus: Otter or Wildcat? M. Porcius Cato: Fox or Rooster? Jasminia: Wild Cat, Fox, or Swan? Moonlapse: Fox or Wild Cat? Anybody here want to vote on which animals the above are? Ursus has already said in this thread that he sees Pertinax more as a Rooster, so unless you object Pertinax, that's what you'll be in the UNRV menagerie. And, Pantagathus, you're more Wildcat than Otter -- right? -- Nephele

I'm way out east on Lawn Guyland. But weekends I'm in Manhattan. -- Nephele

I didn't know that you were in New York! So am I! Are you certain that what you've got is sinusitis? Especially since you've never had it before? Feel better. Make sure your doctor checks you out thoroughly tomorrow! -- Nephele

Welcome to the UNRV Zoo, Divi Filius! But, what are you -- Mountain Goat, Bat, or Horse? You've got to choose! In fact, the members below all need to decide on an animal: Gaius Octavius: Penguin, Beaver, or Sheep? Pertinax: Rooster or Weasel? Pantagathus: Otter or Wildcat? M. Porcius Cato: Fox or Rooster? Jasminia: Wild Cat, Fox, or Swan? Moonlapse: Fox or Wild Cat? If you guys can't make up your minds as to which animal you are, we'll have a general vote and see what your forum mates think! -- Nephele

Slaves could be manumitted exclusively for the purpose of marrying (cf Pullo/Eirene), because citizens couldn't marry slaves. Jocasta's only claim to a higher marriage was her father, merchant of (that dreadful) Macedonia, and the wealth that came with. Despite being a citizen, she was penniless and "dishonored" by the brutes who killed her family. Not to mention a stoner and orgy-partaker. Prolly the best she could do. I'd be interested to see if Atia, machinatrix optima, tries to sever Jocasta's friendship with Octavia on the basis of being married to a freedman. I think we can safely assume that Posca would be free to marry even a Roman citizen at this point, considering the type of manumission which he most likely was given by Caesar. From Smith's: "There were three modes of Legitima manumissio, the vindicta, the census, and the testamentum: if the manumitted slave was above thirty years of age, if he was the Quiritarian property of his master, and if he was manumitted in proper form (legitime, justa et legitima manumissione) he became a Civis Romanus: if any of these conditions were wanting, he became a Latinus..." Not only this, but it's quite likely that Posca's social standing as Caesar's trusted freedman would have been higher than that of Jocasta's wealthy merchant family into which he married. It was Jocasta who most likely was taking a step up the social ladder by marrying Posca, a member of the Familia Caesaris. In his article titled "Social Mobility in the Early Roman Empire: The Evidence of the Imperial Freedmen and Slaves", written for the journal Past and Present (Oxford University Press, July, 1967), Professor P.R.C. Weaver wrote: -- Nephele

A gothically Poe-etic news report! Film at 11? -- Nephele