Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[RonL]

That's a she and not a lesbian one!Yeah, that was a book!:)

I'm liking this more and more with each post, don't tell us, let the guesses keep coming :w:D

Edit...I just realized, the book was the correct answer:)

 

[lisab]

 

[Enigman]

We knows.
(*cough* Venus *cough*)

 

[Danger]

That's a she and not a lesbian one!

Your photo is my desktop, remember? You could change her mind without breaking a sweat.
By the bye, one of my favourite tricks when I was desperate for sex was to disguise myself as a lesbian and hang out in gay bars. By the time she got me unwrapped at home and realized her mistake, it was too late...

Really? You're going to put that out in public? Who are you and what have you done with Lisa?

 

[zoobyshoe]

One of the funniest moments in a Monty Python film for me was in Life of Brian when the Roman soldier caught the guy writing Latin graffiti and angrily corrected his Latin. No one around me was laughing, while I had a giggle fit, because I am about the last American to have studied Latin. The incident isn't funny unless you're mentally thrown back to being corrected by your teacher for all the errors you make in that weird, ancient language.

 

[RonL]

One of the funniest moments in a Monty Python film for me was in Life of Brian when the Roman soldier caught the guy writing Latin graffiti and angrily corrected his Latin. No one around me was laughing, while I had a giggle fit, because I am about the last American to have studied Latin. The incident isn't funny unless you're mentally thrown back to being corrected by your teacher for all the errors you make in that weird, ancient language.

My wife has this taped to the side of our printer, I think it is a reminder that helps her cope with things I say

"non impediti ratione cogitationis "

 

[OmCheeto]

My wife has this taped to the side of our printer, I think it is a reminder that helps her cope with things I say

"non impediti ratione cogitationis "

hmmm... Never heard that one before. Not sure how I would take it.

But I'm still laughing.

 

[RonL]

hmmm... Never heard that one before. Not sure how I would take it.

But I'm still laughing.

Wait for zoobyshoe's answer, I'm not sure if it will be funny or sad, but as I understand, it fits me pretty well.:D

Ps. The words are Latin, they mean "unencumbered by the thought process" (I think):)

 

[RonL]

Your photo is my desktop, remember? You could change her mind without breaking a sweat.
By the bye, one of my favourite tricks when I was desperate for sex was to disguise myself as a lesbian and hang out in gay bars. By the time she got me unwrapped at home and realized her mistake, it was too late... Really? You're going to put that out in public? Who are you and what have you done with Lisa?

Are you getting your Lisa girls mixed up

 

[lisab]

One of the funniest moments in a Monty Python film for me was in Life of Brian when the Roman soldier caught the guy writing Latin graffiti and angrily corrected his Latin. No one around me was laughing, while I had a giggle fit, because I am about the last American to have studied Latin. The incident isn't funny unless you're mentally thrown back to being corrected by your teacher for all the errors you make in that weird, ancient language.

Last summer I attended a local theater's rendition of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". At one point there was this graffiti on one of the set walls:

WE ARE THE XCIX %!

I was the only one in the audience laughing .

 

[WWGD]

Last summer I attended a local theater's rendition of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". At one point there was this graffiti on one of the set walls:

WE ARE THE XCIX %!

I was the only one in the audience laughing .

Maybe because many in the audience were in the (top) I (Notice that I% = C-XCIX) % ).

 

[Danger]

they mean "unencumbered by the thought process" (I think)

Exactly, or as close as any translation can be.

Are you getting your Lisa girls mixed up

You obviously have no idea of how much attention I pay to women. I love the other one too, but given her location and the fact that her name is spelled with a "!" rather than a "b", I think that I can differentiate...

I was the only one in the audience laughing

You wouldn't have been if you had invited me...

 

[Danger]

Maybe because many in the audience were in the (top) I (Notice that I% = C-XCIX) % ).

I took that to mean that they were proud to not be in the Fox News crowd of multi-billionaires who should be fried in their own fat. That's admirable, and the means of expression was clever.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Wait for zoobyshoe's answer, I'm not sure if it will be funny or sad, but as I understand, it fits me pretty well.:D

Ps. The words are Latin, they mean "unencumbered by the thought process" (I think):)

"Impediti" seems to be the passive perfect plural. So, "We, You, or They, were not impeded (ratione) of thought". But it might also be the future tense, "We, You, Or They, will not be impeded (ratione) of thought."

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?D1=9&T1=impediō&H1=109

"Ratione" is the ablative of ratio. Ratio = "Reckoning, account, reason, judgement, consideration, system, manner, method" The ablative has manifold functions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_(Latin)

and I can't definitively sort out why it's used here, but the following prepositions take the ablative case:

• ab, a -from
• coram -in the presence of, before
• cum -with
• de -down from, from
• ex, e -out of, from
• in -in
• intus -within
• palam -openly in the presence of
• prae -in front of, before
• pro -before
• procul -far from
• simul together with, simultaneously with
• sine -without
• sub -under

None of these mean "by". Therefore, this phrase might actually mean something like: "We (You, They) were not impeded from the method of thought." Or, "We (You, They) will not be impeded from the method of thought." Like vowing not to let your thinking get cloudy. "Unimpeded by..." is certainly funnier, but choosing meanings based on which seems funnier might get you corrected by a Roman soldier with his gladius at your throat. Latin is exceptionally complex.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Last summer I attended a local theater's rendition of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". At one point there was this graffiti on one of the set walls:

WE ARE THE XCIX %!

I was the only one in the audience laughing .

I'm afraid I wouldn't have gotten it either. I had to google "We are the 99%." just now to figure out the funny.

 

[RonL]

"Impediti" seems to be the passive perfect plural. So, "We, You, or They, were not impeded (ratione) of thought". But it might also be the future tense, "We, You, Or They, will not be impeded (ratione) of thought."

http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/go.php?D1=9&T1=impediō&H1=109

"Ratione" is the ablative of ratio. Ratio = "Reckoning, account, reason, judgement, consideration, system, manner, method" The ablative has manifold functions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_(Latin)

and I can't definitively sort out why it's used here, but the following prepositions take the ablative case:

• ab, a -from
• coram -in the presence of, before
• cum -with
• de -down from, from
• ex, e -out of, from
• in -in
• intus -within
• palam -openly in the presence of
• prae -in front of, before
• pro -before
• procul -far from
• simul together with, simultaneously with
• sine -without
• sub -under

None of these mean "by". Therefore, this phrase might actually mean something like: "We (You, They) were not impeded from the method of thought." Or, "We (You, They) will not be impeded from the method of thought." Like vowing not to let your thinking get cloudy. "Unimpeded by..." is certainly funnier, but choosing meanings based on which seems funnier might get you corrected by a Roman soldier with his gladius at your throat. Latin is exceptionally complex.

Guess if I found myself in the last situation, I would probably say something like " I'm Spartacus and I'm not encumbered by the thought process" :D

 

[WWGD]

I always wondered why most pop songs don't use fancy words, specially in their titles. Never heard of a title of the sort: " rambunctious utilitarian subterfuge", nor " expeditious acerbic obfuscation" in a pop song.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I always wondered why most pop songs don't use fancy words, specially in their titles. Never heard of a title of the sort: " rambunctious utilitarian subterfuge", nor " expeditious acerbic obfuscation" in a pop song.

Try a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. You'll find a lyric like that here and there.

 

[Danger]

ablative of ratio

Isn't that still illegal in most southern US states?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Isn't that still illegal in most southern US states?

Hmm, no. You may be thinking of the accusative of rectus, which is rectum. I think that's still illegal in some states.

 

[Danger]

Hmm, no. You may be thinking of the accusative of rectus, which is rectum. I think that's still illegal in some states.

Oh, okay. It's really difficult to keep those terms straight some times...

 

[Enigman]

We knows.
(*cough* Venus *cough*)

Looking back at that...
http://usvsth3m.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/RgcK7rh.gif
That was terrible.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Oh, okay. It's really difficult to keep those terms straight some times...

Well, to keep them straight just remember "rectus" means "straight".

 

[Danger]

Well, to keep them straight just remember "rectus" means "straight".

Now that's just confusing...
Of course, that would explain why so many "right"-wing politicians and their followers seem to talk out of their... well, you know...

 

[DennisN]

Sometimes thread titles are really funny :
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-is-tau-baby-dont-hurt-me-dont-hurt-me-no-more.785251/
...and the thread starter must have thought of this song.

(Maybe it would be fun with a thread collecting the funniest thread titles, hmmm...)

 

[Danger]

(Maybe it would be fun with a thread collecting the funniest thread titles, hmmm...)

If irony counts as a factor, Franzbear surely must take the prize. His official title is "The Thread Killer Thread", premised around one's ability to stop a thread dead in its tracks with one ill-fated post, and it's probably about the longest thread that has ever existed here. Everybody tried to kill it. It think that it was Evo who eventually removed the feeding tube.

 

[DennisN]

If irony counts as a factor, Franzbear surely must take the prize. His official title is "The Thread Killer Thread", [...]

Yes, I have read some of that thread, quite fun :D. And also the thread where a guy asked for advice after he had welded a soda can to a rug, it was priceless! Yet, regarding thread titles, I know I have seen some fun gems. I remember a thread popping up probably in the physics sections (where I mostly lurk), and the thread title was simply something like "I don't understand", no more. I read the first post and it was also just e.g. "I don't understand". I wanted to reply, but I did not know what to write . But I think that thread disappeared quickly...

 

[Danger]

and the thread title was simply something like "I don't understand", no more. I read the first post and it was also just e.g. "I don't understand". I wanted to reply, but I did not know what to write . But I think that thread disappeared quickly...

Those show up a couple of times a day. Although they seem to just disappear, a Mentor has conversed with the poster to find out what is actually in question. Most of the time, it's a kid, and the question is either dealt with by the Mentor or transferred to the Homework section with a more descriptive title. No one is ever just turned away with no chance to learn (unless it's an obvious crackpot or someone outrageously rude).

 

[Medicol]

1. I'd be interested to know if and why MS would allow some kind of access that would allow people to avoid buying MSSQL ?
2. You want to move away from a open-standards-based programming interface (sql) to direct access to a proprietary format ?

 

[Lisa!]

Your photo is my desktop, remember? You could change her mind without breaking a sweat.
By the bye, one of my favourite tricks when I was desperate for sex was to disguise myself as a lesbian and hang out in gay bars. By the time she got me unwrapped at home and realized her mistake, it was too late...

Why don't you post a picture of your desktop?