Comments on: Our new motto

By: Lea

Lea — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:01:24 +0000

We’ve ALWAYS been too old to kill ourselves for this shit.

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By: James Mishler

James Mishler — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:17:11 +0000

Consider that motto yoinked!

By: maija

maija — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:35:12 +0000

The Tottingham family motto in Wallace & Gromit’s Curse of the Were-Rabbit is “Liber Stercus Pro Totus” which translates to “Manure Liberates Us All” (it was supposed to translate to “Free Manure for Everybody”). I assume “Stercus” is “Manure”. Substitute and further grammatically mangle Heidi’s motto as you will.

But hopefully some Latin nerd can step up to help.

By: Peter Krause

Peter Krause — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:13:32 +0000

Can we get T-shirts with that on it?

I mean, seriously!

By: Scott Bieser

Scott Bieser — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:05:42 +0000

I tried a free online “Latin translator” and got this:

Nos es non quoque vetus huic shit , tamen nos es quoque vetus neco ourselves huic shit.

I’ve looked around and can’t find a latin word for “shit” or even “feces.” Barring that, one might substitute the Italian “merde” and get:

Nos es non quoque vetus huic merde , tamen nos es quoque vetus neco ourselves huic merde.

That leaves “ourselves” untranslated, but if one substitutes “us” in the English text we get:

Nos es non quoque vetus huic merde , tamen nos es quoque vetus neco nos huic merde.

Which is probably ungrammatical as hell, but I doubt anyone would really give a merde.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:44:33 +0000

“We’re not too old for this shit…”

I don’t want to think about the “nasty mark” that signet ring would leave.

Damn. Now I’m thinking about it … something in brown …

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:45:35 +0000

Translate it into Latin, and it will be awesome. now, what sort of coat of arms will you have, and maybe a cool signet ring that leaves a nasty mark?

By: Susie

Susie — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:16:49 +0000

Yes.
I thought it was just me.

By: Elayne Riggs

Elayne Riggs — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:32:11 +0000

Damn. I wish I’d thought of that motto first.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:42:32 +0000

Now we know why they call you Dirty Harry …. every dirty job that comes along.

By: Christopher Moonlight

Christopher Moonlight — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:39:09 +0000

Too right. It’s just a job, and you’re doing a good one. Put your feet up.