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| 9/19/2014
| Hobart King
Posted on 09/19/2014 7:39:28 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: elcid1970
It makes more sense your way with the Ne, or double negative there to equal our modern-day “don’t”.
To: cripplecreek
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09/19/2014 8:43:02 PM PDT
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: cripplecreek
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09/19/2014 8:43:43 PM PDT
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Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: cripplecreek
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09/19/2014 8:52:46 PM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: HangnJudge
I knew that was coming.
;D
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09/19/2014 8:53:07 PM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: cripplecreek
This is mind blowing.
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09/19/2014 8:55:56 PM PDT
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Salamander
(People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
To: cripplecreek
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09/19/2014 9:21:56 PM PDT
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umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: cyn
Coriolanus was a noble Woman. He used carborundum to clean carbon from the venturis of his chariots carburetors.
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09/19/2014 10:43:56 PM PDT
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tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
To: elcid1970; lee martell; HangnJudge
All well and good as far as pop culture goes, but sorry to say "carborundum" is not a Latin word.
There are several ways to say what is intended (as in any language) but none of them would be understood by a Latin speaker if the word "carborundum" was included. (Although I'm sure that if Michael Savage uttered the phrase he could make it sound quite abrasive.)
Probably the best rendering would be: "Non sino arrodo te spurious."
"Carborundum" although it sounds like it should be Latin is simply the English name for Silicon Carbide. You won't find it in any Latin Dictionary.
(Source: William Whitaker's Words which has a basic aggregation of 39,000 Latin root words.)
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09/20/2014 1:04:20 AM PDT
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shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: cripplecreek; Salamander
On the Southern end of the Great Lakes we make our own pretty rocks.
We call them "Slag."
And sometimes people make really pretty stuff out of slag.
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09/20/2014 1:18:02 AM PDT
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shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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