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 Post subject: Re: The Life of Brian
PostPosted: 2007-01-02 00:57:20
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Gyp wrote:
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> , The
> Older Gentleman writes
> >Tosspot wrote:
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> >> 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?


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 Post subject: Re: The Life of Brian
PostPosted: 2007-01-02 03:49:32
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Champ wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:48:31 +0000, Gyp wrote:
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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.
>
> 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.


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.


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 Post subject: Re: The Life of Brian
PostPosted: 2007-01-02 04:45:37
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platypus ha escrito:
> >> 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.

Would be funny to try this in the *many* Roman ruins round here,
specially in ancient Tarraco (near Reus airport, for the
Easyjetisti)... or, better, during one of the exhibitions of Easter
Armats

http://images.google.es/images?svnum=10&hl=es&lr=&q=%22armats+de%22


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 Post subject: Re: The Life of Brian
PostPosted: 2007-01-02 16:52:58
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TOG@toil wrote:
> 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?
>

ROFLMAO


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 Post subject: Re: The Life of Brian
PostPosted: 2007-01-02 22:52:33
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On 2 Jan 2007 03:49:32 -0800, TOG@toil, chateau.murray@btinternet.com,
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>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.
>
BTDTGTTS?

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

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 Post subject: Re: The Life of Brian
PostPosted: 2007-01-03 11:51:21
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: The Life of Brian
PostPosted: 2007-01-03 20:22:12
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Domenec wrote in message
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> Alison Hopkins ha escrit:
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>> 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.
>

Oops. :)

Ali


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