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George!
I don’t bite, unless they ask VERY nicely! You are giving me a reputation I’ll never be able to live down. And I have always found Andrew to be most personable, hardly ever leaves a slime trail 😉
Richard,
you will also have to be patient with poor Mark. Not only does he have to type upside down, but the keyboard is backwards. And sometimes his son lets him get flung about with excavating equipment…
So definitaly welcome to the mad-house. Ignore George, he just likes to stir the pot to see what will rise to the surface. :-))
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I'm ready for the pissed off Yiddish, myself. Schmegma! Schmutz! Funky WASP type from australia, blah!
*HUTZBAH! Ya'll!
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*Translation*
I don't have much of a sense of humour. I take myself very seriously. I badly want to impress all of you. Because shooting
i (spouting)
Latin is the only way I can do this, I must try. I would like to try something else, but I'm only a humourless man.
Ego sum maximus.(I am the greatest)
The end of my sour post.
-cluny 11
*Kind of interesting how an Aussie can walk into a bar and start a fist fight just by saying, "Thank you".JonC
*It depends to a certain extent on the type of clientele.
*WASP type???Cadioli has about as much Anglo-Saxon heritage as GADDAFI.Would this be the same ClayB of the " Really leaky brick"??
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Mark,please no offense, half of what I say is gibberish, the other half is about leaky bricks.
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Me? You must be mistaken... I'd never "stir"... shake perhaps, but not stir.
*Clay,Forget it., I've been insulted by experts, these blokes on Breaktime are Pussycats.
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BTW, Mark, I'm curious about Australia. Does Paul Hogan just irritate the bejeezus out of your fellow Aussies? It seems like we didn't have a set streotype for Down Under (you know, like the crazy kraut or the snotty french beret wearing type) until Crocodile Dundee came along, or is the country really made of big ass-whippin' types?
Clay
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Paul Hogan used to be an Aussie legend till he went to the USA and then Aussies felt a little betrayed, plus him dumping his missus for a starlet didn't help his image.
Is that a typical image. No more than your average american is like John Wayne.
There are characters in all societies, some just get to the top ( then fall ).
Culturally cringing
Mark
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Mark,
Sorry, I didn't mean to lump all Aussies under one sterotype. I guess the point I was trying to make is that it seems like before Paul Hogan, we didn't have the rugged individualism stereotype that is being used now in America to push all kinds of Australian based or "like" products-Fosters, Outback Steakhouse, Subaru. We used to push the same rugged individualist thing on ourselves-John Wayne, Marlboro, our own history, but then we went yuppiecondo. I guess that's why now American society has fixated itself somewhat on Australian culture--like we've projected an our romatic cowboy thing onto your country, at least in terms of marketing. That and you're probably one of the few countries out there that don't scare or hate us.
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A few years ago. I got a saiboat with some markings saying Perth, WA. She was named Carpe Diem, just to keep the Latin thing going ( renamed her Swee' Pea in honor of my favorite nautical character, Popeye), even had a Nike insignia, you know, that boomerangy thing, on the sail. I just figured it was from Blodgett's neck of the woods 'til I needed some parts (I'm not that good at sailing). Turns out, after some internet surfing, she's from down under. Strange thing, though, she doesn't sail upside down, well, not all the time.
BB
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BB,
I learned to sail in an Endeavor, which is made down under (sorry, don't know where, this was before I could read). Those boats are fly. She took us through all kinds of weather, good and bad, with nary a complaint. She would even knock holes in the reef when necessary. What have you got and where do you sail her?
*She's little, Lisa,14' Rolly Tasker, Hong Kong Class, draws about 2" of water after we run aground and everybody gets out. She's a sound boat. How 'bout you?Like I said, I'm not much of a sailor, but I always get back, BBGot a 16' restoration in the yard.
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" Let him who has given a favour be silent ; let he who has received it, tell it."
This forum has been of benefit to me both financialy and from what I learn. I take this opportunity to say thanks to those of you who contribute to that.
Some have been kind enough at times to e-mail me and offer assistance in regard to purchasing tools ( one of which I recently accepted ).
This person who shall remain anonymous, other than his first name is George, kindly organized the collection of a Paslode Framer for me and then had a friend who was travelling to Australia bring it over for me.
Others have made similar offers and it is things like this that help restore faith in human nature, amid a world that does little to inspire anything but negative thoughts for mankinds future.
Thank you
Mark
*Marcus, Hoc ei propinabo!Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar?Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur.Max
**Translation*i If you're going to hock (spit) do it in proportion. Hah, did you learn your latin at the local bar. Me, I'm totally inept, the internet is too elaboarate for my modum.You'll have to excuse Mr Port. . . he's new here, hasn't learned the sin-tax-pm
*Patrick,A very poor translation, funny, but poor. Let Marc translate it for you, I'm betting he does a better job. And sin-tax is what goes in the collection plate on Sindays ,right? BTW the names Richard.
*Sorry Richard... we all are. Unfortunate, but Patrick is the resident translator. Helps mightily with contracts and such. We just point to him, and do as we please. Mark can only read and translate if you post upside-down. Him being a Southern Hemisphere-type and all.
*George,Patrick is right about one thing , I am new here, and enjoying it very much. There seems to be a lot of good people here. Didn't mean to raise any splinters ,just couldn't resist answering the post.*scratching head* I knew the toilet water spirals the other way Down Under but I had no idea you had to type upsidedown too. Marc, is this true?And at the risk of continuing this....Diabolus fecit, ut id facerem.Richard Max
*Richard, no problem with your take on Mark's ability to translate better. You're right. It's just soooo convenient to have Patrick's translations be the ones of record. Andrew won't even touch them... and he's a (ack, hork) lawyer... now do you get it?Ooops, forgot. Welcome aboard... watch out for Lisa.(Gurl Arkytech-type, drinks Guinness, and swings a mean hammah).
*George,Thanks for the welcome.Wish I had got the warning about Lisa earlier *wink*I already posted her that she sounded like a good egg in the "Lisa be careful"... thread. Didn't know she drank Guinness then. Well there's no accounting for taste, after all my wife and kids like me...and they let lawyers in here?! Sheesh ,the next thing ya know skivvies will become mandatory.RM
*... lawyers who drink Guinness ...BTW, ever snorted Guinness up your nose? Way painful, not recommended. Moral: don't order Guinness at comedy clubs.
*Guido,As usual your translation is spot on. We are eternally gratefull for your eloquent contribution to this board.
*" Even lawyers were children once", from the Preface of "To Kill a Mockingbird".
*George!I don't bite, unless they ask VERY nicely! You are giving me a reputation I'll never be able to live down. And I have always found Andrew to be most personable, hardly ever leaves a slime trail ;-)Richard,you will also have to be patient with poor Mark. Not only does he have to type upside down, but the keyboard is backwards. And sometimes his son lets him get flung about with excavating equipment...So definitaly welcome to the mad-house. Ignore George, he just likes to stir the pot to see what will rise to the surface. :-))
*Lisa,Thank you kindly for the welcome. And in case anyone is interested the correct translation to my original post is:-------------------------------------------------I'll drink to that!Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me.Sometimes it just sort of slips out.-------------------------------------------------Now about that biting habit.....Non sum paratus me committere.Richard.
*There's really only so much you can do with a seriously dead language. . . have you flexed enough??-pm
*Patrick,Ita vero, esne comoedus? Visne aliquid de illo facere? Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules. Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare. Fac ut vivas. Utinam modo subiunctivo semper male utaris!Now I'm done. Since my original posts weren't addressed to you and you seem to have taken such a infantile interest in them. I suggest that you ignore my postings in the future.Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni !Richard