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If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close

Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades

Computer Latin


Cur ullum imprimere non vis?-- Why won't you print out?

Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!-- Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

Non erravi perniciose!-- I did not commit a fatal error!

Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum. -- Garbage in, garbage out.



Homo Sapiens-- Human being

Fiber fervidus-- Eager beaver

Pavo absolutus-- Total turkey

Lacertus atrioli-- Lounge lizard

Fera festiva-- Party animal

Radix lecti-- Couch potato

Latin names for nonexistent but useful diseases


Impedimentum memoriae

(Mental block that makes you unable to remember people's names.)


Inopia celeritatis

(A mild dyslexia that makes it impossible for you to be on time.)


Dolor anteprandialis

(Gastric problem that sometimes forces you to cancel a dinner-date.)


Morbus irrigatonis

(Rare disease inflicted by watering friend's plants.)


Taeduim pellicidorum

(Eye condition that prevents you from looking at people's slides.)


Misc.

May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

VENI VIDI DUCI-- I came, I saw, I calculated

DUCO ERGO SUM-- I calculate therefore I am

QUISQUE COMOEDUM EST.-- Everybody is a comedian

SPERO NOS FAMILIARES MANSUROS.-- I hope we'll still be friends.

CUM CATAPULTAE PROSCRIPTAE ERUNT TUM SOLI PROSCRIPT CATAPULTAS HABEBUNT.

When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.