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  1. Whatever the outcome - and L'Equipe states that the investigation is
    ongoing - the episode must be considered the crowning glory at the end of
    professional cycling's annus ridiculus. Or maybe that's still to come: the
    announcement of Tyler Hamilton's new team is due any moment now.

    http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2534

  2. B. Lafferty said:

    Whatever the outcome - and L'Equipe states that the investigation is
    ongoing - the episode must be considered the crowning glory at the end of
    professional cycling's annus ridiculus. Or maybe that's still to come: the
    announcement of Tyler Hamilton's new team is due any moment now.

    http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2534

    Hmmmm. But we're only half way through November. There's lots of time
    left yet

    And Davey does truly believe that his old Latin Master, a cynical old
    19th century Dinosaur, would have preferred Davey to write "annus
    ridiculum"

    --
    Davey

  3. "Davey Crockett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    B. Lafferty said:

    Whatever the outcome - and L'Equipe states that the investigation is
    ongoing - the episode must be considered the crowning glory at the end of
    professional cycling's annus ridiculus. Or maybe that's still to come:
    the
    announcement of Tyler Hamilton's new team is due any moment now.

    http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2534

    Hmmmm. But we're only half way through November. There's lots of time
    left yet

    And Davey does truly believe that his old Latin Master, a cynical old
    19th century Dinosaur, would have preferred Davey to write "annus
    ridiculum"

    --
    Davey

    On the subject of Latin, do you have a clean copy of your Olympic hypo
    parody that we might use on sublimated jerseys? If so, I'll give you an
    email address to send it to.

  4. B. Lafferty said:

    "Davey Crockett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    B. Lafferty said:

    Whatever the outcome - and L'Equipe states that the investigation is
    ongoing - the episode must be considered the crowning glory at the end of
    professional cycling's annus ridiculus. Or maybe that's still to come:
    the
    announcement of Tyler Hamilton's new team is due any moment now.

    http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2534

    Hmmmm. But we're only half way through November. There's lots of time
    left yet

    And Davey does truly believe that his old Latin Master, a cynical old
    19th century Dinosaur, would have preferred Davey to write "annus
    ridiculum"

    --
    Davey

    On the subject of Latin, do you have a clean copy of your Olympic hypo
    parody that we might use on sublimated jerseys? If so, I'll give you an
    email address to send it to.

    Davey will make you up another one since he never keeps old junk around. It's
    easy to do when he gets a few spare minutes and can modify it to your
    satisfaction.

    The email Davey is using on his posts is 'live' so he actually
    reads mail sent to it if you want to email him as opposed to what he
    used to use which, whilst a valid address, was never read by Davey
    [It's actually not on to spoof an addy, but there's no law says one
    has to actually read any mail sent to any particular address] Any
    variance on 'whois' between Davey's IP and his azurservers.com
    domain merely reflects the fact that he hasn't changed his nameservers
    over yet, and in point of fact might never change them over for
    various reasons.

    On the Latin bit, I was actually just arguing the purist position for
    the sake of argument. Which position you take sorta depends whether
    your Latin Master was an Oxford or a Cambridge man because those
    useless Wankerz still argue whether Ancient or Classical Latin is the
    one the True Believers should adopt and the differences sometimes
    produce some weird constructs. In any instance Davey believes that any
    establishment teaching Latin should be raized to the ground and its
    board of directors prosecuted for child abuse

    General useage would agree that 'annus ridiculus' is the way to go

    But try translating this Doggerel:

    Caesar adsum iam forte;
    Brutus eterat.
    Caesar sic in omnibus,
    Brutus sic intram.

    --
    Davey

  5. Davey Crockett said:

    But try translating this Doggerel:

    Caesar adsum iam forte;
    Brutus eterat.
    Caesar sic in omnibus,
    Brutus sic intram.

    Babelfish doesn't do Latin.

  6. Donald Munro said:
    Davey Crockett said:

    But try translating this Doggerel:

    Caesar adsum iam forte;
    Brutus eterat.
    Caesar sic in omnibus,
    Brutus sic intram.

    Babelfish doesn't do Latin.

    Babelfish doesn't do anything

    It would be hillarious to see what it made of the above though

    --
    Davey

  7. Donald Munro said:
    Davey Crockett said:

    But try translating this Doggerel:

    Caesar adsum iam forte;
    Brutus eterat.
    Caesar sic in omnibus,
    Brutus sic intram.

    Babelfish doesn't do Latin.

    try it on this then;

    pas d'elle yeux rhone que nous

    --
    Davey

  8. Davey Crockett said:
    Donald Munro said:
    Davey Crockett said:

    But try translating this Doggerel:

    Caesar adsum iam forte;
    Brutus eterat.
    Caesar sic in omnibus,
    Brutus sic intram.


    Babelfish doesn't do Latin.

    try it on this then;

    pas d'elle yeux rhone que nous


    or LHOOQ (fr)

  9. Davey Crockett said:


    But try translating this Doggerel:

    Caesar adsum iam forte;

    Caesar was good at arithmetic

    Quoted message said:

    Brutus eterat.

    Brutus enjoyed cunnilingus

    Quoted message said:

    Caesar sic in omnibus,

    Caesar puked on the bus

    Quoted message said:

    Brutus sic intram.

    Brutus hates riding the trolley.

    R

  10. On 16 Nov 2006 09:23:26 +0100, Davey Crockett <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:
    B. Lafferty said:

    "Davey Crockett" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    "B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]> writes:

    > Whatever the outcome - and L'Equipe states that the investigation is
    > ongoing - the episode must be considered the crowning glory at the end of
    > professional cycling's annus ridiculus. Or maybe that's still to come:
    > the
    > announcement of Tyler Hamilton's new team is due any moment now.
    >
    > http://www.procycling.com/news.aspx?ID=2534

    Hmmmm. But we're only half way through November. There's lots of time
    left yet

    And Davey does truly believe that his old Latin Master, a cynical old
    19th century Dinosaur, would have preferred Davey to write "annus
    ridiculum"

    --
    Davey

    On the subject of Latin, do you have a clean copy of your Olympic hypo
    parody that we might use on sublimated jerseys? If so, I'll give you an
    email address to send it to.

    Davey will make you up another one since he never keeps old junk around. It's
    easy to do when he gets a few spare minutes and can modify it to your
    satisfaction.

    The email Davey is using on his posts is 'live' so he actually
    reads mail sent to it if you want to email him as opposed to what he
    used to use which, whilst a valid address, was never read by Davey
    [It's actually not on to spoof an addy, but there's no law says one
    has to actually read any mail sent to any particular address] Any
    variance on 'whois' between Davey's IP and his azurservers.com
    domain merely reflects the fact that he hasn't changed his nameservers
    over yet, and in point of fact might never change them over for
    various reasons.

    On the Latin bit, I was actually just arguing the purist position for
    the sake of argument. Which position you take sorta depends whether
    your Latin Master was an Oxford or a Cambridge man because those
    useless Wankerz still argue whether Ancient or Classical Latin is the
    one the True Believers should adopt and the differences sometimes
    produce some weird constructs. In any instance Davey believes that any
    establishment teaching Latin should be raized to the ground and its
    board of directors prosecuted for child abuse

    General useage would agree that 'annus ridiculus' is the way to go

    This is RBR, you misspelled "anus."

    Ron

  11. RonSonic said:

    This is RBR, you misspelled "anus."


    No it's there in the second word ridi "CUL" us
    :-)

  12. RicodJour said:
    Davey Crockett said:


    But try translating this Doggerel:

    Caesar adsum iam forte;

    Caesar was good at arithmetic

    Quoted message said:

    Brutus eterat.

    Brutus enjoyed cunnilingus

    Quoted message said:

    Caesar sic in omnibus,

    Caesar puked on the bus

    Quoted message said:

    Brutus sic intram.

    Brutus hates riding the trolley.

    R

    Nice try

    Caesar had some jam for tea;
    Brutus ate a rat.
    Ceasar puked on the bus,
    Brutus on the Tram

    tea=evening meal in England
    Tram=streetcar/trolley/etc

    --
    Davey

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