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

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and all this time, I thought I was a serious character you live and learn eh!

*giggles*


VV said she didn't know how to say 'Hand of God' in latin

Manus dei

VV says.... 'Smart A*se'..

I'm not even sure that that's correct.

godimus animalous - s'easy in latin

*giggles*

Well, she's gone to her interview now..

I'll keep my fingers crossed for her.

The 'Hand of God' was the infamous goal scored against England by Diego Maradona of Argentina by knocking the ball in with his hand, in the quarter finals of the World Cup in 1986.

It was Maradona himself, who said it wasn't just an ordinary handball but "la mano de Dios" that intervened to help defeat the wicked English (it was just after the Falklands).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_God_goal

Jabs

Yep.. We will never forget that version, Jabs

Funny thing is, I know a farmer called Manus Dei. The 'Dei' isn't spelled that way though.

Is he aware of what his name means (or the way it is pronounced)?

we had a Chinese take away in town and the granddad of the owners couldn't understand why customers laughed at his name, his kin folk made err other excuses - his name was (hope this don't get yiked) because it's true - Fuk Yu

It's pronounced the same way, but I've no idea if he's made the connection with Latin. I hadn't, to be honest.

Said the immigrant from the small Pacific Island: "I'm so lucky; my name has only one bad word in it."

Oh, I hope you get your account straightened out, B'El. Must be the recent full moon, because there's weirdness everywhere. I can only get to the internet through one of my "extra' adresses. I haven't seen my "business" e-mail in two days because every time I try to switch to that address, AOL spits me out like a used up plug. Happens on two different computers, so I know the problem must be them.
Guess I'll spend a while on the phone with them tomorrow. Ug.

But there's always a bright side. At least no trouble with H2; and since I can't see my 82 urgent e-mails, I have time to play on the internet.

Carpe Keyum!
(Sieze the keyboard.)

It hasn't happened since, so I gues it was a glitch with hootoo.

Hope you got your internet sorted, hstwrd.

Thanks for the good thoughts, B'El. I need them. I've been on the road mostly, so not much time to argue with my e-mail service. I managed to get the mail to work once --probably because I'd deleted the screen name and reinstated. Then it messed up again immediately. I don't know why they insist on blaming my computers. Any idiot can see the problem is probably on their end.
Well, enough of the rant. When I get home from working next week, I guess I'll ask them to explain just why I'm paying good money for them to mangle my mail.

At least your service is working again.

So I'm off for a week of double Beethoven concerts, then back to the drawing board!

We had a Latin teacher, very religious, we called him the Lamb of God.

In Latin.... and we tended to leave out the g.

So sorry to hear your email still isn't sorted, hstwrd.

My Latin's not good enough to translate more than the word god.

Check out any mass - Kyrie - Gloria - credo - Sanctus - Benedictus - Agnus Dei -

I'll let you guess which one is referred to above.