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What about some along the lines of veni, vidi, vici? I once saw some like "I came, I partied, I got drunk" "I came, I saw, I ran away"
They're quite funny .

Or veiny, weedy, bitchy...

veni, vidi, gucci - I came, I saw, I bought expensive leather goods

Non ire non videreque modus optimus invictus manere est

Not going and not seeing is the best way not to get conquered (with apologies to Rincewind and Terry Pratchett)

More thanks to the wonderful Terry Pratchett and also to Discworld Monthly (Issue 50):


The Alchemist's: "OMNIS QVI CORVSCAT EST OR" -- "All That Glitters
Is Gold"

The City of Ankh-Morpork: "MERVS IN PECTVM ET IN AQVAM" -- "Pure In
Heart And In Water" "QVANTI CANICVLA ILLA IN FENESTRA" -- "How Much
Is That Doggy In The Window?"

The Assassin's: "NIL MORTIFII SINE LVCRE" -- "No Killing Without
Pay"

The Beggar's: "MONETA SVPERVACANEA, MAGISTER"-- "Spare Change,
Guv'"?

The Conjuror's: NVNC ILLE EST MAGICVS -- Now That's Magic

The Embalmer's: FARCIMINI -- Stuff It!

The Engraver's: NON QVOD MANEAT, SED QVOD ADIMIMVS -- Not What
Remains, But What We Take Away

The Fools': DICO, DICO, DICO -- I Say, I Say, I Say

The Gambler's: EXCRETVS EX FORTVNA -- S**t Out Of Luck.

The Klatchian Foreign Legion: OBLIVISCOR -- I forget

The Merchant's: VILIS AD BIS PRETII -- Cheap At Twice The Price

Mort, Duke of Sto Helit: NON TIMETIS MESSOR -- Don't Fear The Reaper

The Musician's: ID MVRMVRATIS, ID LVDAMVS -- You Hum It, We'll Play
It

Lord Havelock Vetinari: SI NON CONFECTVS NON REFICIAT -- If It Ain't
Broke, Don't Fix It

The Plumber's: NON ANTE SEPTEM DIES PROXIMA, SQVIRI -- Not Before
Next Week, Squire

Lady Sybil Ramkin: NON SVMET NVLLVS PRO RESPONSO -- She Won't Take
No For An Answer

Seamstresses': NIL VOLVPTI, SINE LVCRE -- No Pleasure Without Pay

The Stripper's: NVNQVAM VESTIMVS -- We Never Clothe

The Thieves': ACVTVS ID VERBERAT -- Whip it Quick

Unseen University: NVNC ID VIDES, NVNC NE VIDES -- Now You See it,
Now You Don't

How about vini, vidi, velcro.
I came, I saw, I stuck around.

I've always wondered if this is the right syntax..."CARPE DIEM PARVA JUGULUM" - SEIZE THE DAY, BY THE THROAGHT

With the possibly risk of saying something in bad taste, what about...

I came, I saw, I changed underwear.
I came, I sore, I thought "15 a day is a few too many."

What about:
vidi, vici, veni, v.d.
I saw, I conquered, I came, I payed the consequence!!

ouch, nice one!

If I can quote (loosely) from "1066 and all that" :

"The Britons, who still used the old pronunciation, gave up at hearing themselves described as 'Weeny, weedy and weaky', thinking Caesar had already divided them All into Three Parts".

That is not a strict quote, but it is what I can remember, and is therefore very much in the Steadler and Yeats tradition.

Cadi

hee hee
*recently having snortled through 1066*

veni, vidi, vidi -- Texas Chainsaw Massacre
veni, vidi, veni -- Hugh Hefner

actually, even the "conventional" translation is inaccurate. 'vici' refers to vicinity. the word is 'vinci'. how the n got dropped (guessing) is probably the same way Latin devolved into the Romance languages of today. yeah, DEvolved. when you have beautiful words like cum turning into con, hey, what more can i say?

Sorry to butt in on your conversation, but if
"Researcher Yankme"
would go back to there own page and then click on the "EDIT PAGE" button and then write a little something about your self then a ACE can come and welcome you there properly
Sorry for interrupting your conversation

Manda

hiya manda,
sokay, interrupting like that. i guess it's part of your volunteer duty (yep, had to go find out what an ACE was), and i was meaning to put some personal info into my page, just wasnt able to do that when i signed up here.
checked your page out, too. very interesting, though i'm still doing the math about yer age--
i suppose i should be posting this summairs elsewise, please forgive me, fellow h2g2-ers. gonna see if i kin find 'my page' now... ta-ta

actually... it IS veni, vidi, vici...

the verb "to conquer" is vinco, vincere, vici victum...

and thus the perfect (AKA past) form of the verb IS vici, not vinci.

so STFU, fool!

one other thing i forgot to mention:

the word vicinity originally meant "conquered area"

wrong again... ouch!

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