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"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future.  It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." -Marcel Proust

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.  Amen.

thanks - I needed cheering up :D

"Tha never knows what's arand t corner."-Trevor Higginbottom

i think this quote was used in final destination aswell

LOL, there was a bit of latin thrown in and everything, I was feeling so cultured untill you said that!! :D

I'm too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

don't you angulus me Mr!  ;tk;

"Charlie fell down the mine shaft" - Lassie.

That was Skippy, you philistine.

Um, or maybe it was Lassie too.  Er, but Skippy found him first.  Probably.

Noooo, Flipper found him before Skippy!!

Lassie found Timmy..she left Charlie there....damn dog.

Come on man, how could a DOLPHIN get to a mineshaft?

Maybe you've confused him with Gentle Ben.

One of my faves..

Melius frangi quam flecti.

It is better to break than to bend.

Seems a strange maxim for a civilisation full of Flushy's ancestors to come up with.  :dontask:

My apologies - how could i have been so silly.

I was actually thinking of The Littlest Hobo!!

 ;whistle;

This is a nice quote I think

      “For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”

 Ivan Panin quotes (Russian mathematician1855-1942)
 

My fave is

Melior rumpus ventus ut vos sinus

It's better to break wind when you bend

can we quit it with the Latin phrases? Every time i read one for some reason i start reciting the latin verb chant from our first year "o, s, t, mus, tis, nt"

Its not really a period of my life i wish to revisit - year one latin with Mr. Hearn!!

What school did you go to that taught latin?

Barry Hearn taught you latin ?

"Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"

Kirk in Star Trek II

Latin was terrific, gives you a great grounding in the English Language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8

M. G. S.


Never found out his first name. Always remember his first lesson just over 20 years ago when he stood in front of the class and said "My name is Mr Hearn"

then after a long pause and a bit of a scowl "But you may call me Sir". Funny, i probably remember learning more in his class than in the 4 years that followed. Only reason i completed it up to GCSE was because i hated History and R.E. more!!


Although at the time i hated it and because i didn't do to well in it i couldn't go on to do a third language (French and Latin were compulsory for the first two years then if you were good at both you got the choice of German, Greek or Russian in the third year). I'd rather have swapped Latin for German but now looking back over the years it is amazing how many words and phrases stem from the Latin language.

Greek German and Russian!!

I had french for two years untill i got kicked out for letting the teachers car tyres down one weekend.

she came out as we were doing it and as my mate was already half way down the road yelling "leg it"!! i was trying to be cool and the first thing that came to mind was " bonjour madamaselle sibia" but she didnt look to happy so i legged it as well.

As in:

amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant - the first Latin verb one learns to conjugate, if I remember rightly, preferably without a dragon of a teacher looming over you... the teacher concerned makes a world of difference - my Latin teacher was brill, my Maths A Level guy was a great mathematician but totally inept at passing his subject on in an understandable and encouraging manner.

Have to agree with TightEnd - Latin gives you a wonderful basis in understanding language and the roots of words.

 rotflmfao

until the part where he got the sword out that could well have been my first year latin teacher. Many a time i got the nose or ear pull treatment when being tested on the words "tamen=however and tandem=at last". Got them wrong once and then whenever either word came up in text i was given a swift 2 minutes of him shouting "tamen" and "tandem" at me. If i got one wrong it was a swift yank of the ear!!

It's a good job you had to do two years of Latin before moving onto any Eastern European languages.

After all, fools Russian where angels fear to tread.

you went to boarding school?  :D

Palastine surely?

bellum
bellum
bellum

belli
bello
bello

bella
bella
bella

bellorum
bellis
bellis

Hated Latin but still remember some of it!

Palestine is a region.

I woke up suddenly at 4am this morning.

I dreamt I'd been hit by a white car - my God it seemed so real at the time...

There was a woman and her daughter in the dream too, they both screamed as the car hit me, dunno who they were.

Sigh.

The inherent danger of the "in" joke.

Big Laz mixed the two up in a caravan wearing a Rangers top (or something like that) and Flushy etc. have been milking it ever since.

No, I failed the inteview for bording school, they put me in a secure room with matches, knives, a sword and a blow torch and then watched me cause absoloutly no damage what so ever, I even appeared to fall asleep at one point.

In fact upon seeing the contents of the room i was instantaneously planning on setting fire to my trainers, throwing the knives all over the shop, blowtorching my hair and stabbing the teacher with the sword when he came in but i got so exited that i passed out and they let me go home :dontask:

Are boarding schools mixed or single sex because? i think i wouldve had the best time of my life at a mixed boarding school

they can be either.

Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit

Who's the forum dream guru?

I need analysing.

No one state of being mortal is totally wise?

I Don't come cheap

Cogito sumere potum alterum

or just balls

Maybe that's why Mr. Greaves said "He would do better if he did not fall asleep in my lessons".  I have the report to prove it. My parents are so proud

Someone's been putting nasty rumours about then!!!!! lol

Aww go on hunny you know you love me........


PWWWEEEEEEAAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Huh?

maybe thats true of people who have not lost a close friend or family member. having lost both my mum and dad when they were young, i can put my hand on my heart and say that i know i could go in my sleep tonight. if i think too much about life it becomes even more real. anyway there is no such thing as death i hope

im sure i got it in classical studies. alpha bete gamma delta....is this latin? in the medical world latin is used also

That's Greek

lmao. i knew that as soon as i posted it:) :blonde:

rough translation:
if you wake up in a damp patch, it was a good dream

or a nightmare......

There was no damp patch - so where the chuff does that leave me?

positively single ?

.... and in a dry bed?

Yer not wrong!!   lol

Incontinence pads are a good few decades off yet I hope!

high and dry?

double sigh...

it wasnt a mistake....subtle humour is just wasted on some people...

"It is true what they say, men are from Omicron Percei 7, women are from Omicron Percei 8" -Mrs Lurr.

"Volunteers are vital to enabling this country to live up to the true promise of its heritage"

Bill Clinton


"Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The non professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self-realisation.”


Mae West (intriguingly and unexpectedly)

Volunteering can be an exciting, growing, enjoyable experience. It is truly gratifying to serve a cause, practice one's ideals, work with people, solve problems, see benefits, and know one had a hand in them. --Harriet Naylor

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love".

Mother theresa I believe ??



Had to edit the typo ;)

Be careful now, its Theresa not Thresea.

I don't want to have to get tough with your spelling now sonny jim....

Dont bring me into it Tighty..

Yep

The greatest volunteer to have lived; possibly!

Watching the breakfast news there I was so.

After the not so-shocking revelation that Diana's death was an accident and not a conspiracy theory, that kids still prefer chips to salads, that someone dressed in a jumper (and wants desperately to speak about rural railway closures in the 50s) is upset that his post office may close, and that it's raining outside, I was a little tickeld that when that Bill bloke picked up the papers he said............

"All of them still leading with the Suffolk murders"

I havnt slept in days and the off licence dosent open for 2 1/2 hours :(


(i always have an exiting day when it starts like this) ::)

God speed to you