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Your motto, 'Alte Amplius Absque Cogitatim', 'Above, Beyond and Without Reason' appears to contain a mistake. I would think that a far better way of putting it would be 'Alte Amplius et Sine Ratione', where 'et Sine Ratione' replaces 'Absque Cogitatim'. 'Absque' should technically be alright for 'and Without' but 'Cogitatim' does not appear to be entirely correct, and 'Ratione' is a better way of expressing 'Reason' anyway. Sorry for all the bother.

quite alright - I just used an on-line english > latin dictionary and those were the responces I got back.

I'll change it when i get a moment probably - so do you know much latin?

I know a little and checked it with someone who knows a lot (he teaches it) and he agreed it was slightly odd and said that it should be changed to 'et Sine Ratione'.

oh and also, how do you generate the codes for the pictures like the Thingite pictures that you can put on your personal space.(I have the Thingite one but wondered about making my own)

You can't create you won sorry to tell you.

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You must hate me already for being so pedantic, but in the Thingite's list of the new days of the week, FriBEEP is renamed 'POETS', POETS as in 'Push Off Early Tommorow's Saturday', however SaturBEEP is also renamed as 'Doobry' so POETS under this scheme no longer makes sense. It would instead have to be called 'POETD' as in 'Push Off Early Tomorrow's Doobry' Sorry my eternal apologies for being such a pedantic sad T**T.

actually you're not the first to point this out.

our standard reply has always been that POETS emobides the spirit of p.o.e.t.s without necessarily being subject to the force of the acronym.
In other words it refers also to poetry and the poets who write it and thereby all such creative drives we all have in us - whihc we never get the time to properly indulge because ofg schools jobs etc. so fri*** becomes POETS day were we can all just Push Off Early.

And POETS being the only day that has an edited guide entry?

You have Demon Drawer to thank for that, if my memeory serves correctly...

Ah, right.

So can you tell me how to get that BEEP sign so you dont faint again.
Oh, and while i'm on the subject of being pedantic and irritating, the romans didn't use CAPITAL LETTERS or punctuation...

...that was about your motto...

< bleep > without the space =

I thought the Romans used nothing but capital letters?
Every bit of Roman stone with writing on it I've seen has been in capitals...

Rome is a capital ...

OK, every bit of stone I've seen with Roman writing HASN'T been in capitals. Some of it has been in very obscure places that barely merit being called villages, let alone a capital.

ah but Rome is in modern context, so if i wanted to say Shut your face, moron in classical latin, it would presumably be os claude hebes

well Rome is in a modern context, not classical latin
so os claude hebes
which translated means shut up, moron

Who's this Claude bloke and what's he doing with those herbacious perennials?