People who think Latin puns are funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!onethousandonehundredandeleven
You get them sometimes among the prospective Oxbridgers. They think they're so fucking clever, making some stupid remark in a dead language that no-one outside of Oxbridge understands anyway, and then laughing to themselves like they're fucking geniuses.

There was one lad I used to go to primary school with - he came back in the sixth form (he went to the big posh private school for secondary) and was in my A-level Maths class. I'll call him Adam for the usual reason. One of the first things he did in that class was to make some 'witty' remark in Latin - I think the word 'molestus' was involved somewhere - and appeal to me, as a fellow 'intellectual', to join him in his mockery of the coarse uneducated proles. I didn't rise to it and acted(?) stupid, even when he explained it. He finally despaired -
Adam: "But you did GCSE Latin, didn't you S___ (my real name)? [thinks: My god, I thought he was an intellectual!]"
Me: "I never got taught puns."
Adam: "Oh. [thinks: What a bore! I shan't be going to Oxford with HIM!!!]"

And after starting on such a great note as that, Adam did so much stupid stuff when he was at our sixth-form (like turning one girl into a lesbian after he hit on her) that it's well beyond the scope of a single QOTW. (By the way, he didn't get into Oxford. I don't even know if he got into medical school. If you're at medschool and think you know him - he'd be in the second year now unless he took a gap year - drop me a line and I'll tell you some of his other snafus.)

And I swear if I ever hear another Latin pun, I'm going to maim or kill the smug bastard who told it before his laughter dies away.

Et hoc veritus est.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Mon 3 Oct 2005, 17:48, Reply)