# Strange ritual at the Possum Lodge on Red Green Show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178 "2003-07-31T17:30:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/1 "2003-07-31T17:30:38Z")
On the Red Green Show, the lads gather at the Possum Lodge at the end of each episode. They all rise, cross their arms over their chests and mutter something that sounds like Latin. What is it, and what does it mean? It’s followed by the brilliant Men’s Prayer: I am a man, But I can change, If I have to, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![irkenDoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@irkenDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irkenDoom)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/2 "2003-07-31T17:49:06Z")
The Possum Lodge motto isn’t really Latin: “Quando Omni Flunkus, Moritati,” I think. It means “When all else fails, play dead.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/3 "2003-07-31T18:19:32Z")
So it’s not, “Don’t follow the balls when they make the street?” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/4 "2003-08-01T16:07:22Z")
Just fer a laff, here’s the Woman’s version. You’re a man. You will change If I make you. You bet. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/5 "2003-08-01T16:18:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by irkenDoom \* > \*\*The Possum Lodge motto isn’t really Latin: “Quando Omni Flunkus, Moritati,” I think. > > It means “When all else fails, play dead.” \*\* [Dead on](http://www.redgreen.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/6 "2003-08-01T20:48:00Z")
I found a English -\> Latin dictionary online. This statement completely in Latin would be something like “Quando Quidque Defit Ementior Mortis.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/7 "2003-08-01T22:54:24Z")
Thanks, folks. I’ll write that down and duct tape it to the toolbox. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/8 "2003-08-02T00:40:49Z")
Being unfamiliar with Red Green except on the vague “I’ve heard of this show somewhere” level, I find their use of Latin deeply weird. Me like. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/9 "2003-08-02T01:18:16Z")
Quando and Omni are Latin, the rest is quasi-Latin gobbledygook. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/10 "2003-08-02T03:31:50Z")
I don’t know, **pesch**. By the looks of your house you seem to be the sort who actually FINISHES projects. Perhaps you wouldn’t get the humor, unless you like laughing at the rest of us. That lawn could make up for the nice paint job, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-ritual-at-the-possum-lodge-on-red-green-show/192178/11 "2003-08-02T05:32:51Z")
When I first saw the show, I misheard the prayer. I prefer it to the actual wording- I am a man, I will shave, If I have to, I guess.