Olentzero, thanks for posting that!!! I was JUST sitting in my office, listening to Fatboy Slim’s cover of Beck’s Loser and that is sampled in it, and I thought to myself: “I wonder what those damn monks are saying, anyway…”. Now, can ya translate that for me? I never learned Latin, and altavista’s Babel Fish is dead language challenged.
Roughly,
Blessed Jesus Lord,
Give us peace.
Dave
Who had too many years of Latin in high school and college.
“Merciful Lord Jesus give them rest.”
Watch yer pronouns there, 2nd Law. “Give us peace” would better be translated as Dona nobis pacem.
Hey, and since it’s the Christmas season… who’s up for a singalong?
Oh my lord…college flashback. We SANG “Dona Nobia Pacem” at our Gaudete service every year. shudder Sounded wonderful when we could get it right. That happened ONCE in 4 years. In practice. :rolleyes:
Well, shoot, it has been 20 years since I took any Latin, fer cryin’ out loud!
:::going back to sittin’ in his rockin’ chair:::
Yer gonna hate me, Dave - I never took Latin at all.
How you like that, Pops? Showed up by a whippersnapper who ain’t even got the same credentials you do. 
Alessan:
Awesome post. Brilliant characterization of the existing SDMB hierarchy of power. After reading that you have tempted me to come to the dark confines of the pit more often, which is saying a lot since I do not hang around here that much, this being my first post on this forum…
Damn it, the first post in which I can rant off at my discretion without being jumped on by the mods and all I do is praise a fellow doper’s inventiveness. I am so ashamed of myself. :rolleyes:
[Demonic possession on]
Fuck it! I take it all back. Forget every commendatory word I typed. Curse you damn fingers! What I meant was that your post was irrational, idiotic, and insensitive to us pathetic humans. How the fuck do you think I feel after realizing that I am nothing in the grand scheme of things, that I am but a slave to a divinely inspired Being who rules autocratically over me and my fellow companions on this elusive journey to wisdom and ignorance-eradication that we have all undertaken?
How the hell am I supposed to grasp the fact that I am nothing more than a humble, expandable pawn in Unca Cec’s master plans? Huh? Explain that to me, you merciless prick. You know what, fuck your theocratic government, fuck that spectral, presumably divine entity that you worship as your supreme lord. You traitor, you have disgraced us all with your demeaning commentaries. You, you lame excuse for a human being. If I could I would…
[/Demonic possession off]
Damn it. I blew it. I can’t do it. I can not seriously rant at Alessan after he/she amused me with that eloquent, funny-as-hell gem of a post…
Guess I don’t belong in the pit. Off to MPSIMS I go.
I am not a slave. I am a person, and my name is Anakin.
Thank you, Quasar (Not to mention Medea’s Child, VileOrb and Ashtar). You may now bow down before me as your prophet.
P.S. I’m a guy, dammit. A GUY!
[cries manfully}
shifting the qibla and painting the word “CHICAGO” upon it
Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecilu Akbar!
Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecilu Akbar!
Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecilu Akbar!
Ashhadu an la ilaha Cecil!
Ashhadu an la ilaha Cecil!
Ashhadu anna Alessan-an Rassoo-Cecil!
Ashhadu anna Alessan-an Rassoo-Cecil!
:eek:
Nice post, BTW, Alessan. I enjoyed it much.
Is that the same song I was talking about? The cutesy latin folk song that all those French nuns always seem to sing?
“Dominique-nique-nique” song on the guitar. (quoted from Mary Jo Pehl of MST3K)
I read the FORMERAGENT stuff (cue scary music.) It was, without a doubt, the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen on this board. I’m frankly surprised that no one challenged the mental case’s death threats outright. Something like, “if you can be here within 24 hours, attempt to “hand me my last check,” and somehow get out of my house without a ventilated skull, then I’ll consider you the super G-man you claim to be.”
I’m still chuckling over the whole farcical “The Finder” thing.
Whoo! That stuff’s rich! 