h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am impressed - somebody who is lost in Scotland can none the less find a new forum within moments...

So, how about that? The Q?

She may not believe me herself, but I think she is located in Renfrewshire. Right, Miss Torsås?


PS: I loved the joke about Thor-sauce. Heja Sverige (well, only until we meet at the european soccer-championship, of course...)

Finding my way around the internet is completely different from finding my way around Scotland. But my skills of finding my way around Scotland will be put to the test this comin weekend, when I need to get to Hampden Park. Now, Hampden Park, Glasgow is a tricky one to get to. So I'll be happy if I make it.

Ummm.. Pierce, where exactly did I say that I was a 'she'? Or do I just come across as a part of the female species of the planet? Cause I can assure you that I'm not a female. Or are you just making assumptions, not based on actual facts?

There are many ways to get actual facts. Quod erat demonstrandum.

You are correct. There are many ways to find facts. Some more successful than others, though.

Habesne solanum tuberosum? Emere volo merenda.

Ah, well, I should have seen that one coming (and who says I didn't?). Of course you can't always be sure that what you find are in fact - well, facts.

Please translate you last remarks - because now I am the lost one...

Miss Pierce

That last Latin phrase was:
"Do you have any potatoes? I would like to buy lunch."
I couldn't find any better phrase at that moment.
And BTW. I am glad you appreciated the little word game about Torsås, and that shows that you were in the "Where are our researchers from" thread and had a look.

:o) Mr. Lost

1. No, I don't
2. I would like to serve you some lunch for free (I have som picled herring and beer, but no schaps, I'm afraid. Will gin do?)
3. Great phrase to confuse and reveal those, who say latin phrases in order to give people the impression that they are able to speak latin, when in fact they are not (wich was what this thread was originally all about) - in this case me, I'm afraid...
4.Yes I was, wasn't I? I also know your birthday, of course.
Happy chanuka

As a matter of fact, it's a good phrase to use as a diversion, to make it seem that you know what you're talking about when in fact you don't have a clue. Found that on another site online and it is remarkably handy when you look for phrases that noone knows about.

You seem to have put a lot of effort into tracking down info. Good form.
I guess I'd better go about finding a bit out for myself.

I am amazed!!!

Amazed? How so?

REALLY amazed!

That's how so...

But, like, WHY are you amazed?

Why...

*Ponders*

Now I've forgotten. Or perhaps I just do not posess the right level of Latin to be able to explain it. I dunno, but in my part of the world, it is weekend and, if nothing else does, that should allow for some amazement.

I think the original amazement had something to do with the smear of words above my first endavour onto the steep slopes of radical amazement.

Or something like that.

Quod erat demonstrandum - NOT!

Ummm.. Okay. I think I understood most of that.

I see...

Would you mind explaining it to me then?

I would really love to explain it to you, but I'm not sure that I can.
I think that I understood that weekends can be a brooding ground for amazement, or at least amazement often comes out of weekends, generally the days after when you start putting the pieces together as to what you did during the weekend and how you survived it all.
I'm not sure, though.
I have been proven wrong in the past.

I just may have become smarter now.

I definitely may also not.

Well...


But if that there thing about proven wroing bothers you, I know the place to go: Seek counsel on http://www.h2g2.com/A252217 - a nice place where everybody can start a forum and plead for help.

You know, sometime they are even helped!

Nunc bibendum est. (Whassa name of coffee in Latin?)

Being proven wrong isn't so bad. It's just a feeling that I'm not really used to.
Mea culpa, mea culpa ave Maria and all that stuff.

Emere volo tabula geographica?

Wouldn't that be "carpe cervitiam"?
From what I remember, beer is "cervitia", and the singular accusative would then be "cervitiam."
I might be talking rubbish here, so please do correct me