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> In message
> , The
> Older Gentleman writes
> >Tosspot wrote:
> >
> >> Whats this, then? Romanes Eunt Domus? People called Romanes they go
> >> the house?
> >
> >Of all the sketches and gags in that film, that one *always* gets me
> >giggling.
>
> I suspect it was of great amusement to those of us that suffered Latin
> O-level, but not to the great unwashed.

> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:48:31 +0000, Gyp wrote:
>
> >In message
> >, The
> >Older Gentleman writes
> >>Tosspot wrote:
> >>
> >>> Whats this, then? Romanes Eunt Domus? People called Romanes they go
> >>> the house?
> >>
> >>Of all the sketches and gags in that film, that one *always* gets me
> >>giggling.
> >
> >I suspect it was of great amusement to those of us that suffered Latin
> >O-level, but not to the great unwashed.
>
> Quite. While I got the joke, it was a long way from being the
> funniest bit of the film for me simply because I didnt understand any
> of the grammatical references, let alone the latin.

> >> Tosspot wrote:

> >>> Whats this, then? Romanes Eunt Domus? People called Romanes
> >>> they go the house?
> Theres an equestrian statue of Some Roman in Southgate Street in
> Gloucester, and someone had written Romanes Eunt Domus on the plinth in
> thick black marker. This was a couple of years ago, but it was a cheering
> reminder that I wasnt the only cultured person to have visited Gloucester.

> Gyp wrote:
>> In message
>> , The
>> Older Gentleman writes
>>> Tosspot wrote:
>>>
>>>> Whats this, then? Romanes Eunt Domus? People called Romanes they go
>>>> the house?
>>> Of all the sketches and gags in that film, that one *always* gets me
>>> giggling.
>> I suspect it was of great amusement to those of us that suffered Latin
>> O-level, but not to the great unwashed.
>
> Well,quite. What goods an intellectual joke if all the riff-raff can
> laugh at it?
>

>

>Its not so much laughing at the grammatical references, as laughing at
>the utterly classic depiction of a bullying Classics master trying to
>hammer the basics of Latin grammar into a numbskull. BTDTGTTS.
>

>If you didnt have that kind of beak, and that type of Latin class,
>then no, you wouldnt find it so funny.

> Isnt horto a garden? (I only know this by working backwards from the
> Catalan. Sort of.)

> Alison Hopkins ha escrit:
>
>> Isnt horto a garden? (I only know this by working backwards from the
>> Catalan. Sort of.)
>
> Heaven be praised you have a house in Sitges where a hort is a
> garden. Argentinian orto is slang for ass.
>