# Fuck the Alabama Supreme Court **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 4, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182 "2015-03-04T06:29:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Batfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Batfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batfish)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/21 "2015-03-05T12:19:20Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > **ALABAMA** > > _On The Wrong Side Of History_ > > I’m betting they could come up with a pretty interesting license plate. Somebody needs to Latin that up. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/22 "2015-03-05T13:05:48Z")
_Retrorsum Contra Historiam_ ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/23 "2015-03-05T13:14:31Z")
On second thoughts, make that _Ad Historiam Praepostere_ literally “topsy-turvy or wrongheadedly with respect to history”, which I think better captures the sense of the English idiom. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/24 "2015-03-05T13:15:54Z")
_semper in caput asini_ ? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/25 "2015-03-05T13:25:11Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > _semper in caput asini_ ? “asinus” is Latin not for the _ass_ that’s “rounded and pink, as you probably think” but for the kind that “has gray hair and eats grass”. _buttocks_ is _clunes_, _natis_, or _puga_. But I think you might want _culus_, which not only means “buttocks”, but carries the suggestion of “anus” as well. Or you might go straight with _anus_, but that’s probably too vulgar. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/26 "2015-03-05T13:40:19Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > “asinus” is Latin not for the _ass_ that’s “rounded and pink, as you probably think” but for the kind that “has gray hair and eats grass”. > _buttocks_ is _clunes_, _natis_, or _puga_. But I think you might want _culus_, which not only means “buttocks”, but carries the suggestion of “anus” as well. > Or you might go straight with _anus_, but that’s probably too vulgar. Ha!, fooled by google translate, the funny thing is that I used Spanish -\> Latin, thinking it would be easier for it to translate a romance language, I wrote “Cabeza siempre en el culo” and got that. So, it’s “_ **Semper in caput culus** _”? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/27 "2015-03-05T13:45:56Z")
Try this for the plates: “Nos concumbere cum propinquis” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/28 "2015-03-05T13:56:07Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Ha!, fooled by google translate, the funny thing is that I used Spanish -\> Latin, thinking it would be easier for it to translate a romance language, I wrote “Cabeza siempre en el culo” and got that. > > So, it’s “_ **Semper in caput culus** _”? I think not, if you mean something like “head always up ass”: that would be _Caput semper in culo_ or some such. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/29 "2015-03-05T14:00:59Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Try this for the plates: “Nos concumbere cum propinquis” :eek: That’s absolutely disgusting!! I don’t mind taking a few liberties for the sake of humor, but that just goes way too far!!! Sorry to be so vehement, but there is really no excuse for substituting an infinitive for the properly conjugated finite form of a verb. What I think you meant to say is “_Nos cum propinquis nostris concumbimus_”. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/30 "2015-03-05T14:04:51Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > I think not, if you mean something like “head always up ass”: that would be _Caput semper in culo_ or some such. I’ll better give up with the Latin and try a motto in Spanish, like the Malborough’s “Fiel pero Desdichado”, perhaps “No somos el lapiz mas afilado del tarro”… ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/31 "2015-03-05T14:07:18Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Try this for the plates: “Nos concumbere cum propinquis” they do WHAT with cucumbers? ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/32 "2015-03-05T14:16:32Z")
Now I’m flashing on the _Romani ite domum_ scene from “Life of Brian”. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/33 "2015-03-05T14:23:16Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I’ll better give up with the Latin and try a motto in Spanish, like the Malborough’s “Fiel pero Desdichado”, perhaps “No somos el lapiz mas afilado del tarro”… Either way, they’ll complain about the Latinos taking jobs. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/34 "2015-03-05T15:17:59Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > “_Nos cum propinquis nostris concumbimus_”. People called cucumbers, they go the nostril? ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/35 "2015-03-05T16:02:45Z")
Exactly! 🙂 Although a more nitpickingly literal translation might be “We fornicate with our relatives.” ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/36 "2015-03-05T16:21:41Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Or you might go straight with _anus_, but that’s probably too vulgar. Nothing is too vulgar for Alabama! ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/37 "2015-03-05T16:23:19Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Try this I’d have thought “The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.” would be more appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/38 "2015-03-05T20:48:36Z")
I don’t see this as being on the wrong side of history. I see it as Alabama trying to secede due to disagreeing with the federal courts. That’s what you are doing if you try to revoke the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution. Funny, I always had Texas pegged as the first to go. But I guess only Alabama is stupid enough to think it would work. Even Arkansas is smarter about it, even if we had to have it beaten into us. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/39 "2015-03-05T21:24:34Z")
I wrote this on Feb. 12; no answer yet: Chief Justice Roy S. Moore Supreme Court of Alabama 300 Dexter Ave. Montgomery AL 36104 Dear Chief Justice Moore: In light of your recent high-profile intervention in the same sex marriage controversy in Alabama, I thought this little refresher might be useful: Article VI. … **This Constitution** , and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, **shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby** , any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and **all** executive and **judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution** ; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States (emphasis added). You’re welcome. Very truly yours, [my real name and address] ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182/40 "2015-03-05T21:34:07Z")
_fist bump_ EH. Shiny. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-alabama-supreme-court/714182.md?page=3)