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johnsonweed
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What was the quote in the Oracle's kitchen in the Matrix?

I think it was "know thy self"

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Eaquae Legit
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Thank you, Tante! I hear PRN all the time, but no one ever knows what the initials stand for. [Cool]
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Jonathan Howard
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Tom, that was one of the only two things you've been telling me since October. Poetry like Yoda you said that I write, and that the other one was.
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Jon Boy
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Maybe he keeps telling you for a reason.
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Jim-Me
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quote:
Originally posted by Jonathan Howard:
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Sumus quod sumus.
Reminds me of a Professor Harvey Narrol song:

"We're here, because we're here, because we're here,
We're here, because we're here, because we're here;
We're here, because we're here, because we're here -
We're here, because we're here, because we're here!"

I thought that was Rush? [Wink]
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Jonathan Howard
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Jon Boy - of course he keeps telling me for a reason. But he finds nothing else to say.

And Jim-Thee - I know that Professor Harvey Narrol sang it to me in person, I don't know the origin, though.

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Jim-Me
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I was joking... Rush's "Roll the Bones" features "Why are we here? Because we're here..." in the chorus.
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Architraz Warden
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Yes, it is indeed supposed to be Canem. Mostly because I mstarted using it randomly after one of our classes watched Dead Poet's Society, and most of the class was on a spree of saying "Carpe Diem". I was hoping Carpe Canem would confuse some of them enough to make their heads explode.
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Jonathan Howard
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I still loved "semper in excreto, sed profundum variat", or something very similar.

What about "nunquam cogitas - ergo non es"? my own variant.

[ July 13, 2005, 06:37 PM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]

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Nemo me lacessit impune

Nobody better f*ck wit' me. Or in more formal language, "Nobody touches me with impunity."

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TomDavidson
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quote:

of course he keeps telling me for a reason. But he finds nothing else to say

I find plenty to say to other people. It's just that this is all I apparently have to say to you. [Razz]
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"Romanes eunt domus [People named Romanes, they go the house]," later corrected to "Romani ite domum [Romans go home]" in The Life of Brian.

The best Latin lesson ever, given by John Cleese.

[ July 14, 2005, 01:10 AM: Message edited by: wordman ]

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Jonathan Howard
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quote:
It's just that this is all I apparently have to say to you.
Because you think I'm monotonous. :-p
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