# Valete, Vox Imperatoris **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419 "2009-01-22T06:23:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/361 "2009-01-27T14:45:18Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > What words there do you think I had to look up in the thesaurus? All of them. I thought you were “bowing out” of the thread. I guess you just can’t help yourself. I’ll help you. I won’t respond with my rapier wit to your sad, pathetic posts. You are now on your own, big guy. This is the Zodiac speaking, SFP ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/362 "2009-01-27T14:49:52Z")
This thread is [del]awesome[/del] [del]pathetic[/del] [del]hilarious[/del] really something else! Keep up the good work everyone. I am the walrus, ivan ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/363 "2009-01-27T15:51:41Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > All of them. > > I thought you were “bowing out” of the thread. I guess you just can’t help yourself. I’ll help you. I won’t respond with my rapier wit to your sad, pathetic posts. You are now on your own, big guy. > > This is the Zodiac speaking, > SFP I had planned on it, but I didn’t realize that the reason we might be communicating with each other is because you have the reading skills of a 2nd grader. No matter, I’m done here. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/364 "2009-01-27T17:19:49Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > This thread is [del]awesome[/del] [del]pathetic[/del] [del]hilarious[/del] really something else! Keep up the good work everyone. > > I am the walrus, > ivan I believe the term is ‘buckeyed’. Oh, and a fine coo-coo-ka-choo to you too Sir. Also, isn’t Dumas, Doom-ah, Du-mah, the pronounciation of Fuck You, or something similar in Vietnamese? I don’t know the proper spelling or the literal translation, but the results will get you in the same place. ---
**Author:** ![Lyanthya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@Lyanthya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyanthya)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/365 "2009-01-27T19:24:47Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Well, I want to march down Fifth Avenue with my tits hanging out while playing “I’m a Little Teapot” on the trombone. Um… how do you do the hand movements for “I’m a Little Teapot” if you’re playing the trombone? Just asking. Fluffy Bunnies, Butterfly Kisses, And the Serenity Prayer, Lyanthya ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/366 "2009-01-27T19:35:18Z")
> [@Lyanthya](#): > > Um… how do you do the hand movements for “I’m a Little Teapot” if you’re playing the trombone? With her tits. Do try to keep up. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/367 "2009-01-27T20:06:25Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > …No matter, I’m done here… \*…Don’t go Don’t you hear me baby please don’t go Don’t leave me now Oh, no, no, no, no Please don’t go…\* Affectaciously, ~NickInUpperLeftCorner ---
**Author:** ![Lyanthya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@Lyanthya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyanthya)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/368 "2009-01-27T20:24:17Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > With her tits. Do try to keep up. Oh, of course. I’d forgotten that year at summer camp. Sorry. Fluffy Bunnies, Butterfly Kisses, And the Serenity Prayer, Lyanthya ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/369 "2009-01-27T20:49:26Z")
Hola, SDMB Posters! I’m trying something a little different, it’s a sign-on instead of a sign-off ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/370 "2009-01-27T20:50:31Z")
Hola, SDMB Posters! Just so you get the idea, I’ve conveniently posted 2 times, not just 1. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/371 "2009-01-27T20:56:42Z")
Nice work. In good…well, middling to good faith, Regards(in a friendly “fuck you” stylee.), ivan. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/372 "2009-01-27T21:39:04Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > I had planned on it, but I didn’t realize that the reason we might be communicating with each other is because you have the reading skills of a 2nd grader. No matter, I’m done here. now **THAT’S** a rapier wit. Making fun of your posts is like picking on crippled children. Unnecessary and cruel. I couldn’t help myself, SFP ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/373 "2009-01-27T21:55:13Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > Hola, SDMB Posters! > > Just so you get the idea, I’ve conveniently posted 2 times, not just 1. Not bad. But without the sign-off we really have no clue as to what your handle might be. 😕 Affectaciously, ~NickInUpperLeftCorner ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/374 "2009-01-27T23:14:52Z")
Hola, SDMB Posters! > [@RedFury](#): > > Not bad. But without the sign-off we really have no clue as to what your handle might be. 😕 > > Affectaciously, > ~NickInUpperLeftCorner Good point. Because my sign-on and sign-off are kept to 1 line each, thus 2 lines total, I can have both. Sayanara, SDMB Posters! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/375 "2009-01-28T01:04:53Z")
> [@tds1273](#): > > Also, isn’t Dumas, Doom-ah, Du-mah, the pronounciation of Fuck You, or something similar in Vietnamese? I don’t know the proper spelling or the literal translation, but the results will get you in the same place. I’m pretty sure the numerous Vietnamese speakers I knew in high school confirmed this, but I don’t remember exactly. If it’s not that, it’s something close. On the other hand, Dumas is [just a surname](http://fr.thefreedictionary.com/dumas) in French. This is probably the first time a 13-year-old has been wrong about anything. Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/376 "2009-01-28T03:26:46Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > I actually intend nothing hostile by it to other posters but rather and simply quoting the hostility I feel other posters often hold towards me–i.e., that I am the one who is being told “fuck You” by other posters, implicitily, and I’m merely expressing that hostility openly in my sig. Perhaps you should get rid of the comma then, so that way it’s better clarified. Or just keep it all on one line. That way you won’t get in any troubles over the ambiguity. Unless that’s what you’re striving for. Fuck You, Pseudotriton Ruber Ruber. PeaceLoveHappiness, **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump PS: I’m not a fan of Sigs. But I really really liked the Sig I thought up for myself. So this is the only time I shall show it. And just hope that in the future everyone can just remind themselves to think of the sig when they see my posts. PSS: Would these Post scripts invalidate my Signing off? Hmmm… methinks I need to write more letters in the future to figure this out. ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/377 "2009-01-28T04:09:21Z")
**Ro0sh** , may I suggest the following for absolute clarity: _Text from some typical post_ (initial sign-off) PeaceLoveHappiness, **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump PS: _Text from PS_ (secondary sign-off due to post being “reactivated” via the “PS”) PeaceLoveHappiness, **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump PPS: _Text from PPS_ (tertiary sign-off, again due to post “reactivation”) PeaceLoveHappiness, **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump At this point many readers would have followed the trail ok, but due to the nature of your post, it would be advisable (and considered polite) to make sure with one final sign-off, although some would consider it acceptable to set the font size smaller thusly: PeaceLoveHappiness, **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/378 "2009-01-28T04:49:53Z")
> [@RaftPeople](#): > > **Ro0sh** , may I suggest the following for absolute clarity: > > _Text from some typical post_ > > (initial sign-off) > PeaceLoveHappiness, > **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump > > PS: _Text from PS_ > > (secondary sign-off due to post being “reactivated” via the “PS”) > PeaceLoveHappiness, > **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump > > PPS: _Text from PPS_ > > (tertiary sign-off, again due to post “reactivation”) > PeaceLoveHappiness, > **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump > At this point many readers would have followed the trail ok, but due to the nature of your post, it would be advisable (and considered polite) to make sure with one final sign-off, although some would consider it acceptable to set the font size smaller thusly: > > PeaceLoveHappiness, > **Ro0 S** ans **H** effalump Wouldn’t it have a better noise to signal ratio if one had a longer handle (such as my own, I modestly point out, fully expecting a pitting on ‘having a long boardname’) and then long lines of quoting someone else’s comments, followed by a few words of new content, then the sig/postscript/sig/post-ps/sig/post-pps/sig construct? “Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana” Your Pal Attack from the 3rd dimension ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/379 "2009-01-28T04:59:38Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > > [@RaftPeople](#): > > > > > [@Ro0sh](#): > > > > > > Perhaps you should get rid of the comma then, so that way it’s better clarified. Or just keep it all on one line. That way you won’t get in any troubles over the ambiguity. Unless that’s what you’re striving for. > > > > > > Fuck You, Pseudotriton Ruber Ruber. > > > > > > PeaceLoveHappiness, > > > Ro0 Sans Heffalump > > > PS: I’m not a fan of Sigs. But I really really liked the Sig I thought up for myself. So this is the only time I shall show it. And just hope that in the future everyone can just remind themselves to think of the sig when they see my posts. > > > > > > PSS: Would these Post scripts invalidate my Signing off? Hmmm… methinks I need to write more letters in the future to figure this out. > > > > Ro0sh, may I suggest the following for absolute clarity: > > > > Text from some typical post > > > > (initial sign-off) > > PeaceLoveHappiness, > > Ro0 Sans Heffalump > > > > PS: Text from PS > > > > (secondary sign-off due to post being “reactivated” via the “PS”) > > PeaceLoveHappiness, > > Ro0 Sans Heffalump > > > > PPS: Text from PPS > > > > (tertiary sign-off, again due to post “reactivation”) > > PeaceLoveHappiness, > > Ro0 Sans Heffalump > > At this point many readers would have followed the trail ok, but due to the nature of your post, it would be advisable (and considered polite) to make sure with one final sign-off, although some would consider it acceptable to set the font size smaller thusly: > > > > PeaceLoveHappiness, > > Ro0 Sans Heffalump > > Wouldn’t it have a better noise to signal ratio if one had a longer handle (such as my own, I modestly point out, fully expecting a pitting on ‘having a long boardname’) and then long lines of quoting someone else’s comments, followed by a few words of new content, then the sig/postscript/sig/post-ps/sig/post-pps/sig construct? > > “Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana” > Your Pal > Attack from the 3rd dimension Does anyone actually know what a time fly looks like? Hostile Dialect, Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419/380 "2009-01-28T05:53:44Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > I’m pretty sure the numerous Vietnamese speakers I knew in high school confirmed this, but I don’t remember exactly. If it’s not that, it’s something close. > > On the other hand, Dumas is [just a surname](http://fr.thefreedictionary.com/dumas) in French. This is probably the first time a 13-year-old has been wrong about anything. > > Hostile Dialect, > Hostile Dialect, Narcissist wow it only took 8 pages to get in on the joke. You’re a Dumas Whats a Dumas? It’s French for Dumbass Dumbass Crit [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/valete-vox-imperatoris/482419.md?page=20)