A Giggle I Had Earlier

[fiat_knox]

Oh, memories ...

Her name was Sian. A lovely girl. Blonde, pretty. We worked together in the last place I worked.

I remember, at the end of a particularly tiresome and exhausting evening, standing beside the bar in the main hall, cleaning the brass rails with her. She said something, can't remember what; and I said "Well, as the Roman poet Horace once said ... Futue me nunc, longe et dure, et bis durior Dominici."

I stared into her lovely eyes. She blinked, and smiled, and stared back at me uncomprehendingly, yet believing that I'd just said something profound.

I'd just gone and propositioned her. And she will never know.

I love my life. :D

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[uncut-diamond.livejournal.com]

when you google that phrase, this is the first page google returns


what does it mean?

LOLOL

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

The second half roughly - very roughly - reads "... and twice as hard on a Sunday."

It's the sort of Latin you'd hear spoken by vulgarian novitiates learning Mediaeval Latin at the Seminary. Hardly Classical at all.

As to where it comes from, I've got these books by a chap called Henry Beard, which twists Latin into such malformations for pleasure.

And according to all sources, the Latin graffiti found chipped into the walls of Roman public buildings at the height of the Empire was even cruder. ;)

"People called Roman, they go the 'ouse," indeed ... :D