cornix cogitas, ergo cornix es

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:45, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

"Crow thinks, therefore crow is"...?

...hang on, are you calling me a hooded crow as some sort of oblique reference to the white hairs that are gradually appearing in my otherwise glorious flapping barnet?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:47, Reply)

It might make sense with "to be" in
so: cornix esse cogitas, ergo cornix esse es


but it's meant to be "You think [you] are a crow, therefore [you] are a crow"
Trying to take off cogito ergo sum is harder than it looks.

Or is "hooded" another oblique reference?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:50, Reply)

I was actually trying to out-pedant you on the latin
As the carrion crow (typical everyday crow in this part of the world and my favourite type) is Corvus corone corone whereas the less common hooded crow is the sub-species Corvus corone cornix, hence when you said "cornix" I thought you might have got the wrong type of crow.

(Although if cornix is simply how it varies due to the case it's in then I humbly apologise and go back to quietly gluing feathers to my person)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:54, Reply)

OH MY GOD

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:55, Reply)

OH MY FUCKING GOD
Apparently "corvus" has the alternative meaning of "one who sucks someone off", as well as meaning a raven
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:56, Reply)

This has made my fucking day

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:56, Reply)

I'm impressed that Crowsephine has managed to be so astonishingly gay
as to cause ripples in the time-stream that change the meaning of thousands-of-years-old words.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:59, Reply)

There's only one thing for it...
*sighs*
*cries a bit*

++BUMDER ALERT. BUMDER ALERT. A BUMDER HAS BEEN DETETCED WHO IS SO ASTONISHINGLY BUMDERISH THAT HIS BUMDERISM HAS PROPAGATED THROUGHOUT TIME AND SPACE IN AN UNPARALLELED ACT OF TARDIS-LIKE BUMDERISM (I.E., IT FEELS BIGGER ONCE IT'S ON THE INSIDE THAN IT LOOKS WHEN IT'S OUTSIDE). THIS BUMDER'S EXTRAORDINARY FEAT OF BUMDERISM HAS CAUSED LIMP RIPPLES TO MINCE BACK THROUGH TIME AND CORRUPT THE DEFINITIONS OF WORDS THAT YOU PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT WERE HARMLESS (FOR EXAMPLE, PRIOR TO THIS EVENT, I'M FAIRLY SURE "BUMDER" WAS A TYPE OF TRACTOR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT).

THIS GIVES HIM THE POWER TO SODOMISE YOU ANYWHERE AND AT ANY TIME. EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU'VE HAD YOUR ARSE PROTECTED FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE, YOU CANNOT BE TOO CAREFUL. ALL PATRONS OF THIS BOARD, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ARE ADVISED TO GO BACK IN TIME AND ENSURE THEIR INFANT SELF KNOWS TO TIE A RADIATOR OVER THEIR NIPSY FOR THEIR WHOLE LIFE FOR FEAR OF THE BUMDER SPONTANEOUSLY WINKING INTO EXISTENCE BEHIND THEM AT ANY POINT IN TIME.

NATURALLY FOXTROT AND POSSIBLY BOOBYPIRATES NEED NOT WORRY AS THEY'RE GOING TO BE BUMDERS ANYWAY SO THEY MAY AS WELL GET USED TO IT.

BUMDER ALERT. *cries* BUMDER ALERT.++
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:15, Reply)

Awesome!

( girlinthehole, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:20, Reply)

For your own good, get your radiator fixed into place
I have no idea whose arse I might next appear in...
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:31, Reply)

Seriously?
that's awesome
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Haha!
Your name change wins
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)

bless you my son

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:14, Reply)

Shit.

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:01, Reply)

According to Lewis and Short, "cornix" is a crow and "corvus" a raven.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:57, Reply)

Given the above, then
I won't argue with "cornix."

Un-fucking-believable...*bangs head on desk*
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:03, Reply)