Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:56 am
At least it's not a separating column, such as they have in the chemistry building...Emotional Leper wrote:Note left on column close to physics department: "This column is Ionic."
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:57 am
I was going to go for a 'lifts and seperates' column in the Women's Studies department, but... well...Hyperception wrote:At least it's not a separating column, such as they have in the chemistry building...Emotional Leper wrote:Note left on column close to physics department: "This column is Ionic."
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Columns! Get your columns here! Attic! Doric! Ionic!
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:02 am
How about Corinthian? And what about the caryatids? Don't leave those out. . . 
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:05 am
Sorry, everytime I head the word caryatid, I think of the AD&D 2nd Edition Monster Manual.Wyldewode wrote:How about Corinthian? And what about the caryatids? Don't leave those out. . .
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:09 am
You're a warped little soul, aren't you? 
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:15 am
I am not switching accounts again...
Hyperception:
My favorite caryatid depicts the lovely, but obscure, goddess Kallipygynous buttox.
Motto of the Greek army:
Never leave your buddies behind...
Hyperception:
My favorite caryatid depicts the lovely, but obscure, goddess Kallipygynous buttox.
Motto of the Greek army:
Never leave your buddies behind...
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:24 am
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:26 am
Oh. . . that's too funny. 
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:28 am
SPQ Watch.
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:19 pm
Schizotypal Personality Questionaire? 
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:47 pm
Well shoot...
Hyperception deciphered it for me last night with such ease, I didn't bother typing it, thinking everyone else in this thread but me would know what it meant.
He did say a potential response could be...
"Laude!"
But, I don't remember what he said EL's acronym meant now.
Something about "Praise the members of the Watch."
Hyperception deciphered it for me last night with such ease, I didn't bother typing it, thinking everyone else in this thread but me would know what it meant.
He did say a potential response could be...
"Laude!"
But, I don't remember what he said EL's acronym meant now.
Something about "Praise the members of the Watch."
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:27 pm
By the Will of the People and Senate of the Watch
Senatus Populusque Romani
Senatus Populusque Romani
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:47 pm
I realize that. . . it was just more fun to substitute an alternate meaning.
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:34 am
...ah...but I didn't...
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:11 am
So we like innuendo, then?Wyldewode wrote:I realize that. . . it was just more fun to substitute an alternate meaning.
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:17 am
Words, and their meanings, are malleable.
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:23 am
I'm afraid?Wyldewode wrote:Words, and their meanings, are malleable.
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:31 am
I have accomplished my goal for the day.
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:36 am
You've abused a victim?Wyldewode wrote:I have accomplished my goal for the day.
Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:47 am
Of course. . . that's completely in my character. 
And now a treat for those following along:
And now a treat for those following along:
Centurion: What's this, then? "Romanes eunt domus"? People called Romanes, they go, the house?
Brian: It says, "Romans go home. "
Centurion: No it doesn't ! What's the latin for "Roman"? Come on, come on !
Brian: Er, "Romanus" !
Centurion: Vocative plural of "Romanus" is?
Brian: Er, er, "Romani" !
Centurion: [Writes "Romani" over Brian's graffiti] "Eunt"? What is "eunt"? Conjugate the verb, "to go" !
Brian: Er, "Ire". Er, "eo", "is", "it", "imus", "itis", "eunt".
Centurion: So, "eunt" is...?
Brian: Third person plural present indicative, "they go".
Centurion: But, "Romans, go home" is an order. So you must use...?
[He twists Brian's ear]
Brian: Aaagh ! The imperative !
Centurion: Which is...?
Brian: Aaaagh ! Er, er, "i" !
Centurion: How many Romans?
Brian: Aaaaagh ! Plural, plural, er, "ite" !
Centurion: [Writes "ite"] "Domus"? Nominative? "Go home" is motion towards, isn't it?
Brian: Dative !
[the Centurion holds a sword to his throat]
Brian: Aaagh ! Not the dative, not the dative ! Er, er, accusative, "Domum" !
Centurion: But "Domus" takes the locative, which is...?
Brian: Er, "Domum" !
Centurion: [Writes "Domum"] Understand? Now, write it out a hundred times.
Brian: Yes sir. Thank you, sir. Hail Caesar, sir.
Centurion: Hail Caesar ! And if it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off.