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[challenge entry] Some board usernames would be differernt

Just a thought...

From the The Roman Internet challenge. See all 263 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 15:58, archived)
# i hope your not expecting a penny
have a woo instead
(I helped save b3ta! 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!
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:00, archived)
# Julia Robertsicus?
(I helped save b3ta! Purple Onion, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:00, archived)
# In vino veritas
and sulfites.

How true...
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! brianftang www.brianftang.co.uk, 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



(I helped save b3ta! 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!
(I helped save b3ta! 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?
(I helped save b3ta! 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?
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:08, archived)
# *hears*
*points at the stupid*
(I helped save b3ta! wefbhweiufhweiu party, Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:10, archived)
# *runs*
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:02, archived)
# Top!
(I helped save b3ta! 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!
(I helped save b3ta! 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
(I helped save b3ta! 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)