ask dog latin

When will there be a harvest for all the world?

― I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 13 August 2012 15:12 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Never. At least, not simultaneously seeing as harvest time / harvest festival is celebrated at different times of the year in different countries. This is not necessarily a bad thing as the global homogenisation of harvest would lead to many countries picking their crops at an inopportune time.

When asked what your height is do you insist on giving a measurement in nautical miles?

i am exactly 1/2 of a knot off my target weight.

Now you're Winston Churchill in charge of a small monastery on the island of Corsica.

Sorry I have no question.

that's okay ronan. you don't have to have a question.

have you learned you lesson?

Ask a silly question, get a silly question?

When did you 'get' it? If you ever got it.

from the moment i got asked how big my cock was.

Would 'ask sick mouthy' be a worthwhile thread?

yes.

If we told you that we wanted you to star in the pilot of a new TV programme in which you would be driven to a remote location in the Scottish Highlands and then abandoned, left alone without money, food, transport or means of communication and had to make your own way home (working title Hitchin' to Hitchin) and you agreed to this, thinking it would be open many doors to a future TV-based career, but then shortly after being abandoned you realised there was no TV crew and you had fallen victim to a cruel practical joke, how would you feel?

I'd feel better if you'd called it Scrangling from Hitchin

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1758/cover_51821582005.jpg

But that notwithstanding, I'm sure you could appreciate I'd be kind of pissed off but thankful for the exercise and time away from work.

Should we kill healthy people for their organs?

How much money would you have to be offered to agree to shoehorn the phrase "outside of the narrow confines of the world of amateur chess" into every conversation you have (no matter how short) with every single person that you meet (no matter how short) during the calendar year of 2013?

if you have a wooden table, which is of a simple composition including a table top and four legs which screw in, and one leg is scratched so you replace it, keeping the scrached leg in a cupboard, and then anopther leg gets scratched and you replace that one, keeping the second scratched leg in the same cupboard, and then you replace the next two legs for the same reason, keeping the next two scratched legs, and then the table top gets scratched so you replace that too, and keep the original top, and then you reassemble the old elements of the table next to the table, which table is the table?

Could the Norse Greenland colonies have survived, and indeed in time expanded southwards? What would America be like now if they had? (detailed response please, nothing glib)

Are the delays to the construction of Malaysia's Kuching Tower warranted?

Are you still mates with the 65dos blokes?

Does the smell of petroleum pervade throughout?

What's the single best moment of When The Levee Breaks?

In 1981 the first Thatcher-led Tory government was deeply unpopular. The monetarist policy they were pursuing was having catastrophic economic effects, unemployment was rising to unprecedented levels and riots were breaking out all over the country. Meanwhile as the Labour party lurched to the left some split from it and formed the SDP. Polls during that time were notoriously volatile, but Labour was generally ahead of the Conservatives and for a brief period the SDP were the most popular party in the country. In 1982 the Falklands effect saw Thatcher's popularity soar and the Tories gained a landslide victory in 1983. After this they embarked on a massive programme of privitisation, hugely curbed union powers and defeated the NUM in a lengthy and bitter battle, and introduced market-led economic reforms that radically changed the face of Britain. Were the changes that took place in Britain in the 80s and 90s a historical inevitability or would the country be a very different place now if the Falklands War had never happened and either Michael Foot's Labour or David Owen's SDP had won the 1983 election? If the latter, how? (no detailed answers, please, just glib ones)

Could the Norse Greenland colonies have survived, and indeed in time expanded southwards? What would America be like now if they had? (detailed response please, nothing glib)

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm not entirely au fait with the history of Viking settlements in the new world. Didn't some of it make it as far as Newfoundland and New England? And wasn't it theorised up until not that long ago that perhaps the indigenous people of America could have at least in part been ancestrally related to Norse settlers? Who's to say there wasn't any co-mingling between those early explorers and their new skraeling compadres? Are there not at least superficial similarities between Lap shamans and the ceremonial garb worn by certain American tribes? Discounting these hypotheses, and to answer your question, it's kind of too hard to say as the historical links between Nordic countries, Greenland and the rest of the Americas seem to have operated in waves, with many communities living isolated from their homelands for several years. Must also not discount the harsh climate of those territories which could not have been changed and would certainly have proved the biggest influence on whether these outposts were to thrive or fail. But again, I'm no expert at all and this is all made up of random things I've read here and there.

Are you still mates with the 65dos blokes?

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:48 (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not really. I'm not enemies with them, just haven't met any of them since about 2007.

Should we kill healthy people for their organs?

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:19 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Depends on whether they piss me off or not.

How much money would you have to be offered to agree to shoehorn the phrase "outside of the narrow confines of the world of amateur chess" into every conversation you have (no matter how short) with every single person that you meet (no matter how short) during the calendar year of 2013?

― I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:21 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Think I would agree to a £184,000,000 agreement, but secretly I'd only do it when people were paying attention.

if you have a wooden table, which is of a simple composition including a table top and four legs which screw in, and one leg is scratched so you replace it, keeping the scrached leg in a cupboard, and then anopther leg gets scratched and you replace that one, keeping the second scratched leg in the same cupboard, and then you replace the next two legs for the same reason, keeping the next two scratched legs, and then the table top gets scratched so you replace that too, and keep the original top, and then you reassemble the old elements of the table next to the table, which table is the table?

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:22 (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In Soviet Russia the table is you.

What's the single best moment of When The Levee Breaks?

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:57 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like the bit where the levee actually breaks.

Does the smell of petroleum pervade throughout?

― kmfdotm (ledge), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:48 (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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What is the funniest thing you have ever said? Please give an honest answer.

What is the funniest thing you have ever said? Please give an honest answer.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:17 (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

- They're like Green Day but slower

Did you have to be there?

I have an unanswered question

Did you have to be there?

― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:22 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To be honest I don't think it's the funniest thing I've said. I think that was a lie.

I have an unanswered question

― I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:22 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm getting to you.

In 1981 the first Thatcher-led Tory government was deeply unpopular. The monetarist policy they were pursuing was having catastrophic economic effects, unemployment was rising to unprecedented levels and riots were breaking out all over the country. Meanwhile as the Labour party lurched to the left some split from it and formed the SDP. Polls during that time were notoriously volatile, but Labour was generally ahead of the Conservatives and for a brief period the SDP were the most popular party in the country. In 1982 the Falklands effect saw Thatcher's popularity soar and the Tories gained a landslide victory in 1983. After this they embarked on a massive programme of privitisation, hugely curbed union powers and defeated the NUM in a lengthy and bitter battle, and introduced market-led economic reforms that radically changed the face of Britain. Were the changes that took place in Britain in the 80s and 90s a historical inevitability or would the country be a very different place now if the Falklands War had never happened and either Michael Foot's Labour or David Owen's SDP had won the 1983 election? If the latter, how? (no detailed answers, please, just glib ones)

― I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:00 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We would all be dyeing our clothes grey and shouting at books.

Will you now accept that your past writings on the Welfare State were, at best, misguided?

Have you ever considered trying to have a novelty hit by covering The Specials' Do The Dog with all of the lyrics translated into Latin?

I've attemped to give you a headstart in this project by translating part of the chorus, but the results (Operor canis ( non donkey )) lead me to suspect the internet translator is defective. Surely there were donkeys in roman times and surely the Latin word for donkey wasn't "donkey"?

ah man I know this

Donkey - Wikipedia, the free en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey
The donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus

Yep, donkey = asinus

tu stultior quam asinus est

Could you quickly rattle off the rest of the song too, just in case he wants to go ahead with this idea?

I am terrible at grammar, but my attempt at the chorus:

Facere in canus, facere in canus
Facere in canus, nolite asinus facere

It's a hit!

Wooo! Statim sera sentio ambulavero in periculo. Si ego me intueris puellam quandam a omnino alienus.

Which was your favourite caramel shop?

it was so long ago and i have visited so many in my time that i don't remember.

downloaded any good albums recently, dog latin?

Nah.