Useful guidelines

....I'm searching for my babel fish....

I have waited for years to find a suitable/appropriate place to post this - (drum roll)......

OMNIA NEGADA SUNT

OK granny23 put me out of my misery. I know the one about not letting the b*****ds grind you down, but don't recognise "negada" as Latin (which I assume it must be in a sentence with omnia and sunt).

Greek is even better than Latin for getting a result. Most people can't even read it, let alone decipher what you mean. I intended to quote a little bit here and then put "Quod erat demonstrandum" but I can't get at a Greek font so you will have to imagine it.

Just got back from a storm and lightening filled airport run to pick up a mate, and then to find my computer crashed. Some Sunday morning...................but finding Useful Guidelines Part One (*ga*) and Part Two (*Ele*) restored my humour. Both very, very cheeky!

absent I have just read your posting etiquite I think it is fabulous and have a stitch in my side from laughing,just what the doctor ordered.

All are denied? Everything is denied?

absent, elegran, which of you is going to have the last word on this thread?

Omnia neganda sunt? Everything is to be denied?

Whoever has the patience (and good memory) to come back in a month when everyone else has moved on and forgotten it.

Love your reasoning Elegran

"It wisnae me"

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2047286

Thank you so much for rising to the bait gracesmum and thus allowing me to tell a totally true story.

Once upon a time the Headmaster of one of our local primary schhols remarked, dryly, to the school Secretary that the school's motto should be 'It wisnae me' because that was the phrase heard most often in his study from staff and pupils summonsed before him. He found the nearest Latin equivalent that he could - Omnia negada sunt = 'everything is to be denied' and the Secretary, for an 'in' joke drew up a version of the school badge with this as motto, framed it and hung it outside the Headie's study.

Time passed, the Secretary retired and a new one was appointed. The new Secretary received a phone call from the local Education Department who were checking details prior to placing a bulk order for new stationery, ties and badges. She confirmed the details and when asked if there was a school motto - you know what's coming next - she said 'Oh Yes, it is on the wall outside the HM study and she spelled it down the phone and it was accepted without question.

More time passed. Pupils proudly wore their blazers with the school badge and motto on the pocket, it appeared on all the stationery and on the new sign erected at the school entrance. Then the Headmaster retired. At his retiral dinner, in the speech he delivered to former pupils, parents, staff, education big wigs and the local press he revealed all and finished with Omnia Negad Sunt - It wisnae me!

Granny23 I googled your quote and came across that story! while I was trying to get the link put cleverly in invisibly you pipped me to the post!

I shall post it anyway, so there,

"It wisnae me"

Love it, Granny23 !

Very funny!

Elegran you could give Poirot a run for his money! * for initiative.

Made both me and Mr Lily laugh aloud, Granny23. BTW I'm still waiting to find out if we get a test on the 'Guidelines' Parts 1 & 2. I shan't bother to learn them if there isn't.

IMHO this is an excellent thread and I agree with everything everyone has said.

Sadly, only the cleverest girls at my school learnt Latin, and I wasn't one of them. So I am going to complain that I am being excluded and made to feel inferior by the Latin Experts' Clique.

Happy Sunday everyone.

Grossi

I did Latin I got the magnificent score of 24% at o level!

I know I am inferior to all the artists, musicians, cooks, sewers,knitters, quilters, astronomists, scientists, yoga experts, runners, sportswomen, and probably good mothers. I have learnt to live with my inferiority. My motto is 'I have done my best - and it wasn't good enough'. (I am very good at crosswords and sudoku though).

Greatnan your motto made laugh. I am thinking of having something similar for myself.

What's an astronomist?

I don't know - I am still in post-migraine phase of woolly thinking. Astronomers? Why didn't spell check work?