Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

lostinrates

Doozer, can ypu remeber the other names? I am goi g over my head for them. Dog was Cerberus, but a bit obvious, no?

michaels

Just read Martin's weekly circular and vaguely remembered the last flight I went on was delayed - A search of my emails and the flight was in December 2006 and the delay according to the interweb was 167 minutes - had it been 180 minutes plus we could have claimed several £00's in compensation apparently.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

ETA: Looks like NP may be over-represented in the learned at least a couple of words of Latin stakes. I shudder to think what PN thinks of that...

Yes you are right. We may need to delete all trace or we will be condemned to having been POSH as children.

I want to reassure Pastures that all working class RC kids had some latin. Oh and if you were from my tribe, Irish dancing.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Ha - you claim your brain is broken but you can remember Caecilius whereas I sit down at work every morning and gradually try and work through the fog of what it was I did the day before

ETA: Looks like NP may be over-represented in the learned at least a couple of words of Latin stakes. I shudder to think what PN thinks of that...

My brain is broken, i have the pictures. it was just keen to start with :rotfl:

Yesterday I did the same as today...chickens, horses, dogs, housework, nap.

Today I bleached the shower curtain in a random but overdue break from same old bathroom cleaning.

I have been wondering if I ever did anything high powered and I think the answer is no. I have been lucky enough to do a few things well but ...never got far enough along them to attain any 'status'. I wa always- flibbertygibbet though, and hated dedication to any one thing. Its tht that attains 'high power' i think. I miss that ability now...to be as juggling.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

Yes you are right. We may need to delete all trace or we will be condemned to having been POSH as children.

I want to reassure Pastures that all working class RC kids had some latin. Oh and if you were from my tribe, Irish dancing.

Fwiw that is not universal. My mother had no Latin education at her rc school ( not this country) and very poor languages education. My grandmother certainly didn't in Ireland.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

Just read Martin's weekly circular and vaguely remembered the last flight I went on was delayed - A search of my emails and the flight was in December 2006 and the delay according to the interweb was 167 minutes - had it been 180 minutes plus we could have claimed several £00's in compensation apparently.

Mr S spoke to DD this evening he was at schipol just about to board a plane for regional airport.Soon be home he said. He only got in about 10 minutes ago. The tanker refuelling the plan broke down adjacent to the wing, so they were stuck onboard until it was shifted.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Yesterday I did the same as today...chickens, horses, dogs, housework, nap.

Geese! I thought you had geese?

zagubov

Spirit wrote: »

Do any NP speak Latin?

I have a very rusty recollection of Latin Mass (which is beautiful when sung), a selection of Hymns and Carols and the odd bit from an O level class book involving the tale of a girl called Flavia .

Since that time the odd bit of law in latin has taken residence in my brain but otherwise that is the sum total.

If you do speak it what do you use it for?

I did a Scottish Higher Grade in it and found it difficult and was chuffed to get a B. Very useful if you're doing any biomedical subjects.
Dropped French Higher halfway through but wish I'd kept it on. Much more useful and a beautiful language.
DS is learning Spanish -even better!:beer:

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Fwiw that is not universal. My mother had no Latin education at her rc school ( not this country) and very poor languages education. My grandmother certainly didn't in Ireland.

Mass, hymns, prayers - it was unavoidable. Not necessarily a classrom thing, although in my case it was. My mum had latin (and gaelic) and my poor father was taught by Christian Brothers who were anything but Christian by the sound of it.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Doozer, can ypu remeber the other names? I am goi g over my head for them. Dog was Cerberus, but a bit obvious, no?

Yes, cerberus. Didn't they have a chef that did more drinking than cooking. Can't remember any other names.

Porto portas portat portamus portatis portant. Silly what sticks.

Edit: metella is on twitter! Melissa is the ancilla, grumio the lazy cook.