Some board usernames would be differernt

Just a thought...

From the The Roman Internet challenge. See all 271 entries (closed)

( drunkenoaf, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 15:58, archived)

i hope your not expecting a penny
have a woo instead
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 15:59, archived)

heh
I think for no less than minimum wage, don't you know!
( drunkenoaf, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:00, archived)

Julia Robertsicus?

( Purple Onion, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:00, archived)

In vino veritas
and sulfites.

How true...
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:00, archived)

hooray for latin
i wish i knew more than a few words

edit: two. two words.
( brianftang www.twitter.com/brianftang, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:01, archived)

um
Caecileus est in horto
Caecileus est in via
Caecileus est in atrium

magna pugna, otiosi....

Dulce et decorum est, pro patri mori

and

Gaudiamus igitor! Blah blah blah blah blah-de-blah

Um, that's it.

Oh and.

Qui mos erat cannibus,
olim nunc colender,
ventustis cannibus,
ventus grataes cannibus,

etc
( drunkenoaf, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:06, archived)

ha ha
I think we already decided my user name would remain the same, but woo nevertheless!
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:01, archived)

pssssst!
i'm asking quietly in order not to look stupid
but what does your screen name mean anyways?
( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:03, archived)

Ptolemy was a Greek Egyptian Pharoah
but this relates to a tortoise does it not, Ptols?
( bilbobarneybobs is a financial spacktard, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:08, archived)

*hears*
*points at the stupid*
( 4dam party, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:10, archived)

*runs*

( Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:20, archived)

It's a long story
Basically I have a habit of sticking stubbornly to my guns even when it's blindingly obvious that I'm wrong. When I founded a magazine years ago and everyone told me it was a big mistake (as usual) I named it in tribute after the man who arguably made the biggest cock-up of all time, but who stuck to his guns all the same: the ancient astronomer Ptolemy, who pronounced that the Earth was the centre of the universe (much later overturned by the heliocentric, or sun-based system we all now now to be true).

Fifteen years later the magazine's still around, and I'm stuck with the nick-name Ptolemy.

The short version meanwhile is that I also have a tortoise named Ptolemy, so I tend to just tell people I'm named after him. It's easier.
( Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:26, archived)

Ha ha yes. woo yay!
I tried to do this last night,turning Curis into Chris, but i couldn't find a suitable font.
( Mstandot, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:02, archived)

Top!

( Doc G and Sid the Monkey may contain traces of spatula, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:02, archived)

Haha!
You had the same latin book as me!
( The Rabid Ferret of Doom is no longer a badger, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:23, archived)

I think everyone
had the Cambridge Latin Course
( drunkenoaf, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:26, archived)

Woot!
I LURVE THIS!


^{finally figures out what her name means (:}
(Benny A Last Nuclear meltdown:, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 18:18, archived)