One player will provide a word or phrase in another language, and the next will furnish us with an erudite translation and then a word or phrase of their own...
And so it begins...
- blamelewis - Ah lovely, a spelling mistake in the blurb... Great start :)
Your first phrase is: Caveat Emptor - rab - Someone unaware of who Sarah is.
[blamelewis] I'll try and find a way to fix the blurb; it might take a while because I don't think my remote maintenance script works since I 'improved' things around here...
bona fide
- Guest Login - Good dog
habeas corpus
- Boolbar - Dead plants.
Aloo Gobhi
- Martha Farquar - How to greet an ex-Soviet premier
schaden-freude
- penelope - A dusky maiden
Sang froid
- gil - A small automatic machine for adjusting the elevation of a horse's bridle.
Savoir Faire
- Martha Farquar - Menu at a London hotel/restaurant
gnothe seauton
- Inkspot - Standing room only
Penblwydd Hapus
- penelope - I'm merrily pissed.
loco parentis
- rab - The mother of all steam engines.
Can someone translate pup huny rag les an myns, my primary school motto?
- gil - The new secretary has left.
Hasta la Vista
- Boolbar - "The hotel has good views of the ocean"
Magna cum laude
- gil - I was aware whose hat it is
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
- Boolbar - Do you want diet or normal custard?
anno domini
- Inkspot - Anyone for a pizza?
Ich Dien
- Raak - A Scotsman lamenting his imminent demise.
Eintritt verboten
- rab - A woman in labour being sped to hospital in a Vauxhall Nova
Vis a vis
- Wol - commercial for pink M&Ms
Garde ta foie
- Dunx - A lament for a deflated football.
Gag me with a spoon!
- Projoy -
Better than fried food.
píu mosso - rab - Mildewed church furniture
Kyrie eleison
- Raak - The Japanese answer to Kylie Minogue is going up the charts.
salve regina
- penelope - Ladies' ointment for very personal use
force majeure
- lodge - private army belonging to ex-member of Ultravox
- lodge - volenti non fit injuria
- Projoy - Note from mother excusing one from games.
sine qua non
- matt - Misbehaving at the convent
mene mene tekel upharsin
- rab - A song about ice cream
int main(void)
- Raak - Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
l'état, c'est moi
- Projoy - That's my SUV.
multum in parvo
- Dunx - I seem to be suffering from cat flu.
many a mickle makes a muckle
- DrQu+xum - I'm not fond of Guinness.
"And your listeners will very well, John, that insofar as the National Rail is concerned, I believe, and you'll find that the Prime Minister (as well as the whole cabinet) agrees with me on this, that there is, and I make no apologies for this and see no reason why I should!" - Raak -
Those honest citizens who hear your words
That, like the proverbial weasel feign to say
Those things thou durst not state straightforwardly
But cowardly hint from shadows, nods, and winks;
Those honest citizens, I say, will not be gulled
By cavill'd slur: you speak of National Rail;
Now, in so far as National Rail's the gist
'Tis my oft-stated view, and shared by He
Who, trusted with the helm of this great Ship
Supported by his Cabinet, sails us true;
Thus stated forthrightly, it needs no bush;
Apology would make it seem I lack
That confidence you seek to undermine:
Be off, thou wormtongued enemy of mine!je ne sais quoi
- Inkspot - The journey was okay.
Gesundheit
- flerdle - It's so good to sing up here.
Merhaba!
- LotUS - I've found the sunken port!
Gomen nasai
- Raak - Inject your nasal passages with rubber cement. (A figurative expression equivalent to "piss off".)
ding an sich
- Boolbar - The emergency bell above hospital beds.
Lilium superbum
- Inkspot - To stretch an envelope
Dianthus barbatus
- Guest Login - Call a plumber
Arigatou
- gil - I see that everyone's having difficulty with this. That's because it's in Glaswegian. It means: "No, David, Margaret's with us", but it doesn't crop up much in day to day conversation.
Hur mycka kostar det?
- Guest Login - How much would it cost to have my jaw fixed
Ich bin ein berliner
- Raak - One bin, one binliner.
zut alors!
- Dunx - A trumpet fan in a pull over.
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
- Watty - Please exchange these, along with mother's shoes.
Nessun Dorma
- Kim - Let sleeping monsters lie
Alea jacta est
- lodge - Cassius clay's next career choice dictum meum pactum est
- Raak - I still have my own genitals.
pons asinorum
- rab - Homosexuality is evil.
dieu et mon droit
- Raak - Uttered by restive theatre audiences, this literally means, "what a long-drawn-out farce this is!"
gradatim et punctatim
- Uncle Korky - Grade Tim - and then punch him
Morituri te salutant
- gil - If it doesn't move and you can't eat it, salute it. (Roman Army maxim)
Makan siap, Tuan!
- matt - Let your mother go shopping if she wants
Klaatu barada nikto
- Kim - - That loose floorboard's given me a splinter
Also Spracht Zarathrustra
- Raak - Zara not only goes like a train, she can hold an intelligent conversation as well.
Grüss Gott
- Kim - Obese goat.
Duit On Mon Dei
- lodge - weekend procrastination decus et tutamen
- Inkspot - Decking for a gents toilet.
quelle heure est il
lodge]to put a beak between the translation and your move insert <p> or <br> to start a new line - gil - The siren at the pit is now dry, Eric.
La plume de ma tante
- Uncle Korky - The flag on my marquee
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- LotUS - A bit obtuse this one... A survey of a jaded revolutionary and a painter came out in favour of fatherhood.
Bengoshi dewa arimasen
- Kayl - Bengosh's weapons of mass destruction training video. Siyo! (Huko) Shoka yangu kichwanil! To see what that really means visit http://www.yamara.com/junk/xl970512.html
- Kayl - Bengosh's weapons of mass destruction training video.
- Kayl - Argh! Hang the html! The phrase is Siyo! (Huko) Shoka yangu kichwanil!.
- Kim -
tir na nog
- Raak - He is a member of the Bon-Bon terrorist gang.
Siyo etc. means "I dare you to stick a fork in the toaster!"
ahlan wa sahlan
- Dunx - Drunk in charge of a dinghy.
pour encourager les autres.
- rab - [Raak] I presume it's actually a Celtic language in real life?
Are you confused about your shoe laces?
Quattro formaggi
- Kayl - Solve:
Msuri sana
- Raak - I'm sure I'm sane, so will you please take this straitjacket off?
Vakmanschap is meesterschap
- gil - Walkman users are male.
Eodem cogimur, unde negant redire quemquam
- Ibid - Get me more dutch cheese, and don't change channels.
teknillinen yliopisto
- Dunx - No, I have no idea how that pesto got on the bed sheets.
Vorsprung durch technik
- Chalky - Carol Vorderman has stolen all the interesting consonants
Veni Vidi Vici
- Kim - Come and watch my pornography
Apres moi le deluge
- Uncle Korky - I'm first in the queue for the shower
Je n'ai que mon âme
- Raak - I uphold the right to bare arms.
fiat justitia, ruat coelum
- gil - You are legally obliged to buy an Italian car, but the ignition coils in them are corroded.
Non sequitur
- matt - No secretaries.
Per ardua ad astra
- Ibid - Amount of work required to make an advert for a small Vauxhall car.
Sic Transit Gloria
- DrQu+xum - Being nauseated on the Northern Line somewhere between Euston and Camden Town.
Llyfrgell Owen - lodge - What a lovely view of the ocean you have from this hatchery!
Was kostet das Benzin pro Liter? - Raak - What fee did Tony Benn accept to promote metrication?
Arbeit macht frei
- lodge - On the contrary, I survived the date without receiving any hickeys.
Je ne peux plus bouger ma voiture - Ibid - You smell, and you commit indecent acts with scavenging birds. (traditional insult)
bo le bata is capall le ceansact
- Chalky - Return those tools to the pub and make it snappy
i gran dolori sono muti
- Kim - The Great Dolores is my mother
Hänschenklein ging allein in die weiter Weld hinein
- Dunx - The water is warm.
Je ne comprends pas
- Projoy - This bag won't carry all my shopping.
Alea Jacta Est
- Raak - Alia would like to be known as "Jack" since the operation.
comme ci, comme ça
- Chalky - Would you like to examine my precise punctuation?
rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis
- Ibid - Country people know that animals fart.
Amantium irae amoris integratio est
- Projoy - I love it when a plan comes together.
curriculum vitae
- rab - School is compulsory
I believe the following is grammatically incorrect, but I'm quoting the song:
voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir - Dujon - As best I can figure it out, Dr Q, you mean
"If you wore drag you would look just like Ira Gershwin"
Nonlo faccia, per favore. - gil - No pouting, please.
È pericoloso da appoggiarsi a fuori
- Raak - Periwinkles stuffed with hot chillies. (Yum!)
- áíÓ äÈí ÈáÇ ßÑÇãÉ ÅáÇ Ýí æØäå! ..
- Raak - Oops. It worked in the page I copied it from. Here's a replacement:
Areopagitica
- Raak - Oops again. I hope I haven't screwed up the formatting...
- Raak - Ah. Ok now.
Areopagitica
- Breadmaster - What astronauts must use to keep in touch until mobile phone masts are erected on Mars (only a matter of time).
Ecce homo! - Darren - Be grateful that your education has accelerated your body's progression into old age.
Hej Gamle Man
- Uncle Korky - My camping stove is in pieces
Teo torriate konomama iko
- Raak - My mother has run off with a theatrical troupe.
Barbara celarent darii ferio baralipton
- Kim - Barbara quickly makes Darius a strong cup of tea
[Having introduced him to the wonderful concept of mnemonic syllogisms].LOLOLO FUNEX?
- Darren - A limbo dancing party.
Ave imperator, morituri te salutant!
- lodge - "When the bird-people rule, I will kill all conservatives as a warning!"
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre - Raak - I will pelt you with eggs, sir churl!
Gradus ad Parnassum
- Chalky - Students may find mountaineering expensive
Gluckliche Reise
- Darren - My Jaguar needs refuelling with four-star, but I refuse to buy anything from a petrol station run by that varmint, Ben.
Son pittore ancor io!
- Chalky - Da fizzy mineral water is well wicked.
abiit excessit evasit erupit
- rab - If you keep playing with it, it will fall off.
allegro ma non troppo
- Kim - This is an early model, with a speed limiter
Arma virumque cano
- Raak - Viagra is made from dog's bollocks.
megaloblatta blaberoides
- Darren - "I'm really great, so I'm going to kill anyone who mentions haemorrhoids."
Der Befehl Speichern unter
- Chalky - No-one failed to notice that his favourite collection of hedgehogs were escaping from the bottom of his trousers.
Honores mutant mores
- penelope - I'm a cherry cake
Sacre bleu!
- Darren - Blue sugar!
Je plie et ne romps pas.
- Chalky - I've got a headache
solventur risu tabulae: tu missus abibis!
- Uncle Korky - I can't glue the table: the wife's drunk it!
hande hoch
- Darren - I have pawned my limbs.
Er is aan alles een overvloed.
- matt - It's tough to be hip these days.
deus ex machina
- Raak - I have a teacup with cracks in the shape of Jesus' face.
Wovon mann nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
- Darren - How far does your Jaguar go before it needs an oil change?
Wirken Sie mit!
- Chalky - We are huge fans of Kenneth's fingerless glove
Pleon hemisy pantos
- Dunx - I prefer to think of the trousers as being half full.
Bugger - I was going to say "Sooty has not done enough exercise!"À la recherche du temps perdus
- Raak - I hold my hair on with glue.
verb. sap.
- Darren - Tree speak.
La Bamba
- Uncle Korky - Cute Italian deer - less than a year old
Zut alors!
- Guest Login - My jacket is blowing away
chateax maison
- snorgle - Massage parlour vorsprung durch technik
- Kim - It just popped out during Metalwork!
Oppidum antemeridialum corniculatum [I sense fatigue is setting in; would someone like to do the honours?]
- Darren - Mornington Crescent.
- Darren - Although, really, I wouldn't mind carrying on with it.
Vous souhaitez louer une voiture?
- Raak - Will you make sweaty love with me in my car?
tumulus simulacrorum
- Projoy - This is actually a false beer belly I am wearing.
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
- Kayl - You nose has bad karma.
Cymru
- Vicious nancy - A sort of rice cake made from the excretions when a person is aroused.
Ich bin ein auslander.
- Darren - I've hidden the body of an Australian among the refuse.
Schreib mal wieder!
- Raak - Open your mouth wider and scream (as the Nazi dentist said to Dustin Hoffman).
obscuris per obscurum
- Chalky - Honestly - there's no need to hide the label on that cheap bottle of bacardi.
Cosi fan tutte
- Darren - Is your age making you feel unwell?
Hij was toen 43 jaar.
- Raak - He died of eating 43 jars of pickled tuna.
Et dixit fiat lux; et lux fit.
- Vicious nancy - The fat dictator was a perfect fit for his luxury Fiat.
der bestirnte Himmel uber mir und das moralische Gesetz in mir
- Breadmaster - Heaven is stunted over Mir, for there is ghostly morality within.
En arche en ho logos, kai ho logos en pros ton theon, kai theon en ho logos. - DrQu+xum - "In order to improve homeland security, all American citizen will need to have the Statue of Liberty and American flag tattooed on their foreheads."
Éamonn atá orm. - Darren - Your husband is home.
De historie zal deze oorlog beschouwen als een van de keerpunten in deze eeuw.
- Chalky - History will show that long strands of Izal have been stashed in the van secreted in the boathouse alongside the slumbering ewe.
Suppressio veri suggestion falsi
- Dunx - Please don't ask again about my breast implants.
Na bardito taynel o pogekône!
- Raak - In the Bardo, it costs one conical podume to enter the tunnel (of rebirth).
D'argent a la fasce d'azure, charge d'un soleil de gules.
- Darren - It's urgent that you cover your face with gemstones: a seagull has just flown into the sun.
Eh. Mitä ihmettä?
- Chalky - So don't sue me!
borgen macht sorgen
- gil - Burgers give you a tummy ache
Çà n'fait rien
- Raak - Such is fate.
Sans souci
- Darren - Without ketchup.
Doch jeder tötet, was er liebt.
- Kim - You may have either tortoise, whichever you prefer.
Rauchen verboten
- Graham III - Rowers for boats.
Alles Vergängliche
ist nur ein Gleichnis
Das unzulängliche
Hier ist ereignis
Das unbeschreibliche
Hier ist's getan
Das ewig-weibliche
Zieht uns hinan. - Raak - 'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go,
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go,
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go,
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go,
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go,
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go,
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go,
'Ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go!ardha baddha padmottanasana
- Chalky - That's a nasty looking verruca.
sul ponticello
- snorgle - Don't sulk, you poncy cellist!
Pogue mahone dubh - Kim - Suffering from teenage angst
E pluribus, unum
- Darren - When I'm thinking, I dip swiss rolls in my tea.
Quod esse non potest
- Raak - Hey fatso, is that your grandmother on your arm?
ceteris paribus
- Martha Farquar - The badgers are laughing together
Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad
- Darren - I have slime on my back.
Hur gör man sin egen sida?
- Raak - Here are the weapons of mass destruction.
mutatis mutandis
- Martha Farquar - X-Men 2
nuqDaq yuch Dapol?
- Dujon - Hint; It's nothing to do with the lack of italics.
- Darren - Don't play tennis with me, it's such an ordeal.
I campi obbligatori sono in grassetto
- Dunx - I'll only do my Liberace impression once I'm stoned.
Non, je ne regrettes rien!
- snorgle - Nuns shouldn't mock egrets.
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi? - Chalky - Are you a couch lesbian?
gibier de potence
- Kayl - gibber over the pot
Strewth!
- Raak - Third person singular of "strew". When used as an interjection, the subject is understood to be "God": "God strewth" refers to the divine bounty in creating the remarkable spectacle that has provoked the speaker's ejaculation.
Ne ekersen onu bicersin
- Kim - No ejaculation without fornication
Ferro tunicam!
- Boolbar - These female parrots have just hatched.
ma non parlo l'italiano molto bene
- Breadmaster - My mother decided not to redecorate the parlour in Italian style. She's using molten beans instead.
Mens sana in corpore sano - rab - The men's sauna includes sandwiches
Mamma Mia!
- Dunx - Look at my breasts!
Memento mori
- Raak - I remember more! (The slogan of a memory training course.)
lapsus linguae
- Darren - Corn with seafood.
Im Sommer fallen die dicken Leute auf, im Winter die dünnen.
- Chalky - Do not loiter with your genitals exposed in the month of August, because you will fall down dead in December.
Yassoo Kombare!
- Kayl - Hi ho Silver! (Or possibly Gold, depending on the inflection).
Dos pesos.
- Dujon - Come in for a coffee - my bed's soft too! ..... Dreaming - I've never had an invite like that.
Há um cabelo em minha sopa. - Raak - My guitar has herpes and my doctor is a saxophone.
casus belli
- Darren - This milk is too quiet.
El que se queja, faltas tiene.
- snorgle - All your quizzes fail to grasp the rudimentary questions.
Et ego in Arcadia vixi.
- Darren - And I play Tails the fox in Sonic the Hedgehog videogames.
In dubio pro reo.
- rab - Belly-dancer cum prostitute.
Mirabile visu
- Raak - Mein Führer, I can see!!!
Ne plus ultra
- DrQu+xum - "So, Olive, yous had one, and Wimpy had one, and Sweet Pea had one, and I's had one...."
A shaynem dank dir im pupik. - Darren - Shy men get clammy when they speak of puppies.
Selg ikke skinnet før bjørnen er skutt
- Raak - Before you can skin the bear, you must kill it.
loc. cit.
- Darren - Lock Cup
(Raak) That's stunningly close to the real translation. Was that deliberate??
Una mezza verità è una bugia intera.
- Raak - [Darren] No, but I guessed that it might be.
- Chalky - Una Stubbs messed up big time when she attempted buggery.
Kai ta leipomena, kai ta loipa??
- Breadmaster - And your unordained Englishman, is he a wolf?
Aux armes citoyens!
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons!
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons. - Darren - Citizens with extra limbs!
Ferment your watery soup,
My friends, my friends!
I've sung rude songs
Which were short but silly.Wer jung reitet, geht alt zufuss.
- Martha Farquar - We're young rats, so get lost, old zookeepers!
Kokoa kokoon koko kokko.
- CdM - How to prepare Pollo con mole
[Darren] I thought that one was "Citizens, to arms! Form your batallions! The martians are coming!
Pollo con mole - Chalky - Come assist me with my mole survey.
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre!
- Uncle Korky - It's good, but it's not lager.
Moi aussi
- Darren - I'm Rolf Harris.
Ogni corso d'acqua ha la sua sorgente.
- Ibid - An Australian friend
A, zer parea! Karakola eta barea!
- Ibid - Ahem, sorry, didn't pay attention to being simulposted. Darren's was of course
Of course, Daiquiris for the Seargeant. - Martha Farquar - Ah, the pariah who ate a bear with Coke!
Katsastuseste-ratsastatkos vai yksikseskos yskiskelet?
- Dunx - Can you hear me over the noise of my deflating inner tube?
Pour encourager les autres.
- matt - Lesbian writers are cowards.
[Dunx] Curses, simulposted. My phrasebook gives that as My fellow felines! Let us meet at the rodent steakhouse, where we shall eat fried Whiskas until we throw up. Obviously a phrase where context is everything.
2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle
- Darren - [Dunx's one] It takes bravery to eat porridge.
[matt's one] You can have any 2 or 3 of these women.Ein Neger mit Gazelle zagt im Regen nie.
- Darren - [matt] Sorry, when I saw the word "simulpost" I assumed blindly you hadn't done one for Dunx. I just realised you did.
- Chalky - One enchanted night with the poised gazelle ensured the longevity of his reign.
poly phlois boio thalasses
- Raak - I love many boys and girls.
nisi dominus frustra
- Dunx - Send a repairman immediately! My television aerial has broken!
C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre!
- Breadmaster - Bzzzzzt! Repetition (see above).
- CdM - [BM] I think he's doing it on purpose; his previous one was a repetition too!
- rab - Dollis Hill
- Chalky - Dull ease ill
- DrQu+xum - Démenti D'Ongar
- Dunx - [BM, CdM] Thank you for your forbearance - I think I'll just stop trying to play now.
- Darren - Is DrQ's one meant in earnest?
- DrQu+xum - [Darren] Yes.
- Darren - In that case, Démenti D'Ongar = Uncontrollable male libido
Méchant poulain peut devenir bon cheval
- Dujon - When I'm poorly I sing and keep a big shovel under the beadspread.
Nove polegadas são demasiado curtas - Raak - I am about to cut a small passageway. (Said by a surgeon giving a demonstration to his students.)
tant pis
- rab - You should have seen the one that got away.
Res ipsa loquitur
- gil - This residence features a door of your own that locks.
See ma Ma? See fush? Ma Ma cannae staun' fush.
- Darren - I've just played the card which is normally valued between the 10 and the Queen!
Hijo de cabra, mucho salta.
- snorgle - To make holy water, add salt.
It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht.
- Dazed5 - Desmond Lynhams' moustache has been silver plated.
Donner und Blitzen.
- Raak - Doner and a hurl.
don su don su don doko doko don
- Darren - Welcome Donald! Welcome Susan! Donald! Susan! Donald! Do come in! Do come in, Donald!
Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta.
- Big Dave - Excuse me, you are not small. I accuse you manifestly.
Non ho pagato per il mio libro nuovo - Chalky - I'm afraid there is no hope for your illness while my books remain so pristine.
naturam expellas furca! tamen usque recurret
- Raak - Phew! Better out than in, but warn people if you're going to do that again!
quod erat demonstrandum
- Darren - A poem: I bid for more iodine, then I go away.
Nihongo ga wakarimasen.
- Kim - Hung like a mason.
Voici l'Anglais avec sang-froid habituel.
- gil - The English Voices sang in a Freudian fashion as usual.
Saya chakap Melayu baik, la
- Chalky - If you are about to vomit, I will settle you comfortably and sing a bit.
ho le mey kiti luca chi chi chi
- Darren - The sacred kitten of Brian May looks as if it's about to take up ballroom dancing.
Watashi wa baka na gajin
- Raak - My goats are all gay.
om mane padme hum
- Breadmaster - Yes, it is meant to do that. It's called caramelisation. It will be delicious. Trust me.
Hasta la vista, baby! - matt - Isn't that a fine view, my child?
sic transit gloria mundi
- penelope - Mrs Estefan threw up in the van on the journey home from a weekend away.
Hony soit qui mal y pense
- Chalky - When Malcolm is 'dressed up', he would prefer to be known as 'Honey'
si monumentum requiris, circumspice
- Darren - Agh! The cat has drawn blood from my "little chap!"
Daijobu desu ka?
- Raak - Still working at the day job? (I would be surprised to find that "daijobu" really is Japanese for "day job".)
con fuoco
- Raak - s/would/wouldn't/
- Breadmaster - Expression of disgust upon seeing Jeffrey Archer back in the paper. (Raak - alas, it means OK, so that "Fish" actually meant "Is it OK?", if my primitive Japanese skills don't steer me too wrong.)
Mi dispiace, non lo so. - gil - The container for my CD is not loose.
Ich bin Auslander
- Kim - I'm Australian
Tant pi, tant mieux
- rab - Do not piss on the cat
Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen lesen Sie die Packungsbeilage und fragen Sie Ihren Arzt oder Apotheker
- Darren - When working in Nebraska, you risk ignoring the lesson of those who die in packing spillages by breaking their arse on an apothecary.
Mae bronnau ardderchog da hi.
- Big Dave - May now breeds harder pigs - say hello!
Kann ich habe die speisekarte bitte, wenn es möglisch ist. - Rosie - Pass the pepper pot, and don't be so catty. Senza sordini.
- Raak - Sensible sardines.
o-negai shimas
- Chalky - My veins contain blood that is both rare and glistening.
post hoc, ergo proptor hoc
- Breadmaster - It was after the pig, therefore it is a pig with a propellor.
Dulce et decorum est, pro patri mori. - Darren - Propriety is dull, even more so for fathers. I believe you meant "pro patria mori" btw
Jak dziala ogrzewanie?
- Kim - Has that Jak been peeing in the dhalias again?
Appelation controllée
- Rosie - We have tamed the wild mountains of Virginia. Stultorum assinorumque rex.
- Rosie - The songbirds are getting in the way of the darts players.
Defense de cracher.
- Raak - I have pointy ears and long fair hair to die for, aren't I just so wonderful?
Achtung!
- Dunx - Yeuch! Tongue!
Ïa Shub Niggurath! Cthulhu fhtagn!
- Chalky - You haven't seen me! My name is Phtang and I am working under cover as an African shrub.
Fennas nogothrim, lasto beth lammen!
- Darren - Do not pass through the marsh, Beth, as you're my very last lamb!
Peidiwch â phoeni'r merched yn y babell nesa.
- Raak - (This is a more sophisticated form of "rhubarb rhubarb", i.e. gibberish muttered by actors in the background of a scene who have to look like they're talking.)
berberis thunbergii atropurpurea
- Kim - My barber's tunaburger has gone stiff and purple. [cf. Facial Nightwear].
Caesar adsum iam forte
- gil - Caesar supplements it with sum strong preserve
Habla usted una montadiente?
- Breadmaster - Has anyone lost a diamond mountain?
Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. - Raak - Ash gets up my nose from inconsiderate smokers, Ash gets up my nose from idiot smokers,
Ash gets up my nose from cretinous smokers, Death to all smokers!exeunt omnes
- Darren - They've all been executed.
Gebrauchen Sie Insektenvertilgungsmittel.
- Chalky - Well I never. That incy wincey spider is climbing up the spout.
Wo steckst du gleich das Köpfchen hin?
- Raak - Why are you hammering a stake through my head?
namaste
- Darren - I'm mad, I need the toilet, and I'm hungry.
Devo engoli-los inteiros?
- Kim - Is the entire english race satanic?
Teo toriate konomama iko
- Rosie - We've got squatters!
Llyfrgell Cyhoeddus
- Darren - My life has been saved by a seagull with a robotic head.
Non piove ma cola.
- penelope - Please don't piss in my drink
café con leche
- Raak - Would you like to come in for..."coffee"?
tu es Petrus
- Projoy - Fill 'er up.
ne te confundum illegitimi
- gil - Never contest paternity suits
Arma virumque cano
- Rosie - I am protected by a highly infectious CocaCola container.
Ici le prévision des temps.
- Raak - Do not write on the other side of this page.
dabo claves regni caelorum
- Darren - Use a pair of percussion sticks to summon the King.
Barriga cheia, cara alegre.
- PIB - "Bring your chia pet, Carmen Electra!" DICTUM MEUM PACTUM
- Chalky - My diarrhoea medicine is packed.
Dein ist mein herz und soll es ewig bleiben!
- Raak - Eat my heart and colour my wig blueberry. (A hip slang expression of astonishment.)
et in arcadia ego
- penelope - He reckons he's a pinball wizard.
parc fermé
- gil - Allotment
Jag har lite ont i halsen, och hostar mycket
- Darren - You'd look silly in a roadgoing helicopter.
Yenilen pehlivan gurese doymaz.
- Chalky - A low turnout.
So lass deine büchsen im walde stehn?
- Uncle Korky - Whilst the girl eats the bushes, I'm staining the welder.
Buenos tardes.
- Darren - I like Dr Who.
Ne ekersen, o'nu bicersin.
- Raak - If you shine my nose, I will give you your nose. (A Klingon proverb.)
nunc dimittis
- Chalky - Alas, your goolies appear to be knackered.
Già il sole dal gange. Nel puro ardor
- PaulWay - Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
Quantum ille canis est in fenestra?
- Darren - Is it possible to use a rubbish bin as a makeshift particle accelerator?
Sakinilan goze cop batar.
- Raak - He who drink too much sake get into fight with police.
gaudeamus igitur
- Chalky - Please sign here but you must use this multi-coloured-fluorescent-gel pen.
Laue lüfte blumen düfte, alle lenz und jugendlust!
- Breadmaster - Lift the daft bloom, and go! Give up lusting after jugs for Lent!
mens sana in corpore sano - Kim - Words importing the masculine also include the neuter
Laudamus te, benedicamus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te. - Raak - Let us praise tea, bless tea, adore tea, glofity tea.
Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone.
- Wol - The karaoke queens yearn for road rage, blessing my scabby dog with a dull tonguing.
Je suis le ténébreux, le veuf, l'inconsolé (Flanders & Swann invoked)
- Darren - The Swiss are full of tenacity, verve and depression.
La cattiveria ritorna su chi l'ha fatta.
- Rosie - Only real cats get overweight on Japanese food.
Pan welwch yr olau coch aroswch yma.
- Raak - Make me some pan-fried porridge with oil of rose cockles.
exceptio probat regulam
- Darren - The relative speed of your membranes is greater than zero.
Äpplet faller inte långt från trädet.
- Uncle Korky - I want to swap my failing applet for a Frankinsh lantern.
Ich möchte Raak sehen, dieses zu übersetzen! - Chalky - Forgive me! for I have mocked Raak's miniature zoo collection
Drum heg ich sie auch so treu an der brust
- Tuj - The female percussionist on the auk has her trousers pulled up an awfully long way.
Precipitevolissimevolmente - Raak - Mr. Oboeist! Give us a tootle to help our soprano get in tune.
Er entdeckte der Welt, was die Antike sei, er zeigte dem menschlichen Geiste, was die Natur und die Welt sei. Diese Taten vollbrachte der deutsche Geist aus sich, aus seinem innersten Verlangen, sich seiner bewusst zu werden. Und dieses Bewusstsein sagte ihm, was er zum ersten Male der Welt verkünden konnte, dass das Schöne und Edle nicht um des Vorteils, ja selbst nicht um des Ruhmes und der Unerkennung willen in die Welt tritt: und alles, was im Sinne dieser Lehre gewirkt wird, ist 'deutsch', und deshalb ist der Deutsche gross; und nur, was in diesem Sinne gewirkt wird, kann zur Grösse Deutschlands führen.
- Darren - She entered the deck with her welding gear, where she spoke of her antics, and she sought the men who liked the spirits of nature and welding, so they said. Their potatoes ran boldly towards the spirit of Holland, sick yet sane, immersed in their language, sick yet sane, wimpy and wordy. And their wimpy sanity saddened him, because her ex-husband had welded children's cots - that's the shaven but idle git in his 40s, yes, selfish git with the rheumatism and wilful unemployment in the welding industry: and friends, whom he sinned with, leering at their wierd work, calling it "Dutch," but he'd never actually been to Holland in any serious way; and now, these sins affected his own weird work, dragging him into the truly serious fires of Holland.
Många bäckar små gör en stor å.
- Rosie - The fellow returns, bloodied, to the supermarket.
Et in terra pax, pax hominibus.
- Raak - [Darren] Bravo!
- rab - [Raak] Indeed, but I'm curious as to where you got this quote (assuming you didn't make it up yourself, which is indeed possible). I've tried googling but thanks to a somewhat unconventional use (to my mind) of the dative in the first clause, it doesn't come up with anything.
- Raak - [rab] I googled for "German quotations" and came across a page of Wagner quotes. I can see why Hitler was a fan.
- Chalky - [rab, Raak] It's interesting to hear where you all pick up your quotations from. My German ones all come from 'Schubert - 200 Songs for Voice & Piano' selected and edited by Sergius Kagen [IMC. New York]. It contains the English translations which, given the somewhat florid, overblown nature of the romantic verse, are chucklesome enough [even before you lot apply your skills to them].
At this point in time, I cannot do justice to Rosie's last quote so I'm leaving it for someone who can. - rab - [Chalky] To be fair to dear Franz, the only Lied I know in any detail had its lyrics written by Heine. But then I'm quite a fan of his, feeling him in many people's minds to be cast in Beethoven's shadow. In the meantime...
He who is sardined in terror, is sardined into the gay bus.
Hyvaa Joulua ja Onnellista Uutta Vuotta
- Kim - Never joke with the honesty of the floating voter.
Hänchen klein, ging allein, in die weiter Weld hinein.
- Kim - [Darren] Marvellous stuff. Do I sense the germination of a new game here?
- Darren - Clean your hands, my gang allies, in the water behind the weld.
Tack för det!
Thanks all for the comments! I was rather worried someone else would come up with a better "translation" while I was working on mine, but that didn't happen luckily. Incidentally, I get my quotes and proverbs from a variety of sources: some from the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and others from online proverb collections.
- gil - [rab] Thank you for reminding me of the Finnish for Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Finnish is truly opaque, and the only word in the phrase that has any relationship to other languages as far as I know is "Joulua", which is "Yule" with a nice Finnish suffix.
(Use a) nail for that!
Lapin Kulta
- Raak - This phrase, decorously expressed in Latin, occurs in a Victorian anatomical guide to the fair sex written for young men (who are assumed virtuously innocent of such knowledge).
Costain Skanska Bafry
- Martha Farquar - My cousin loves reggae and reggae loves him, baby.
Sein oder Nichtsein, das ist hier die Frage
- Breadmaster - Sigh over the night scene, because you're about to get mugged.
Theon oudeis popote tetheatai, ean agapomen allelous, ho theos en hemin menei kai he agape autou en emin teteleiomene estin. - gil - This odious puppet theatre, its fittings all loose, has those at home agape and television is preferred.
Comment allez vous?
- Raak - Do you have anything to say in response to these allegations?
rubor, calor, tumor, dolor, functio laeso
- Darren - Rubber, gas, cancer, the DHSS... that's life.
Den som gräver en grop åt andra faller själv däri.
- Breadmaster - Den is some groover! But he did grope the outside of Andrea, and fell over, being slightly doozy.
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. - Projoy -
That gents' lavatory seems oddly popular today.
Gotterdämmerung - gil - Thank you, rab. This, of course, literally means "Never rely on cattle to find their way in fog". (A well-known Finnish proverb - now used to designate Tourist Bureaux)
Ratgeber und Rundfahrten
- Raak - Literally "Ratgobbler and Roundfarter", this is a popular German sitcom about an eponymous firm of lawyers.
si vis pacem, para bellum
- Breadmaster - If life is peaceful, it seems beautiful.
Die hellen Funken, welche dem Beschauer,
Genährt von Strahlen, die der Sonn entsprühten,
Wann sie versank, des Lichtes Blick vergüten,
Sie leben selbst nur eine Blumentrauer. - mick - Dos Equis -- two horses
- Darren - [ignoring mick, who seems to be playing to different rules]
Death is funky as hell, like going to Wales for a shower,
Get arty as you're strolling, sprout yourself in the Sun,
When you fall down, lick the licky bit of a gun,
You levitate yourself, now behind the trail, plant a flowerVége jó minden jó.
- Raak - Eat vegetables and grow thin.
si monumentum requiris, circumspice
- Ibid - We need a statue of the Sporty Spice.
A mulher e a sardinha querem-se da mais pequenina
- penelope - [Ibid] Almost eggsactly what I had in mind - but with Jewish Spice instead. :o)
- Boolbar - If I eat another sardine I'll turn into a penguin.
Ta bean in Eirinn a phronnfadh sead damh is mo shaith le n-ol
- Darren - Thanks for putting the bean in, Erin - on the phone, my father said, "Damn, it's more than my job's worth."
Rehellisyys maan perii.
- CdM - RE: Hell is a man called Pierre
J-P
You're on to something here, but can't you say something more general? Does he have to be named Pierre? Only one man? Just men -- or women too? Maybe it's all other people you mean? Think about it.
Yrs, Simone.
Voetsek! - Breadmaster - The Japanese horse has done ten poos!
Miraa-san no otoo-san to okaa-san wa ogenki desu ka. - Darren - The Ford Ka design brief openly stated there were to be no mirrors, no toilets and no whales included.
Mann og viv er eitt liv.
- Raak - A man with wide eyes has eight lives.
O-negai shimas
- Chalky - [Raak] erm . . repetition [4 or so pages back] - so I will also repetish my previous translation:
My veins contain blood that is both rare and glistening.Willst meinem schätzchen dich machen beliebt?
- Raak - If I have a crap, will you believe me? (Said to a customs officer who suspects one of carrying illegal substances in a dark place.)
[Chalky] What can I say but:
sumimasen - Tuj - The new enforcement branch of the Freemasons is made up of large Japanese types in small underwear.
Carthago delenda est - Darren - I'm renting out my carthorse.
I dag raud, i morgon daud.
- Rosie - I was a navvy because my father was Welsh.
Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.
- Dujon - Victoria insists that it is imperative that the statue of David show the lad circumcised.
Consiga su pie de mi bola
- Breadmaster - This was how The Sun originally broke the news of Kubla Khan's excessive pleasure-dome building.
Den Menschen mit dem Himmel verbinden: eine Studie zu den katechetischen Homilien des Theodor von Mopsuestia - Raak - Dan mentioned putting the hammer in the bin: a study of the cat-cheating home loan of St. Theodore of the Swiss Mop.
trockenbeerenauslese
- Rosie - The stone in my drink renders it useless.
Abrochense los cinturatos
- Software - A broach was lost in the tumble-dryer
Trekken voor uitgaang
- Dujon - The gang of four are now known as 'The Group of Odd Walkers' (i.e. - Roughly translated - "The Ministry of Funny Walks")
- Dujon - Err ...
Una comida y yo decentes somos cualquier persona
- Raak - This is the advertising line for a Spanish remake of "Queer as Folk": "A comedy about ten somewhat queer people."
domo arigato gozaimasu
- Software - The Millennium dome will be disassembled and shipped to a farm in Malta.
Overstaap bij brug
- Darren - Fall off the bridge.
D'er ingen så lang han ei må tøya seg, og ingen så låg han ei må bøya seg.
- plump - In comes the new single from Toyah and out goes the Boyzone single.
Baszom a sza'd sze'le't, Sanyika'm! - Chalky - The videofilm showed that her bosom resembled that of a sad skeleton.
Warum liess ich das band auch hängen so lang?
- Dujon - Girl bands like 'Spice' don't hang around for long.
Nie Sagen nie wieder
- Darren - They're neither saggy nor too wide.
Bend boge brest.
- Breadmaster - I'm sorry, but I can't translate this on a site that children may see.
Mi dispiaci, non lo so! - Rosie - The stuff I phone through is truly awful.
A piacere mano destro
- Software - The sleight of the hand deceives the eye.
Dinsdag kartonnendozen dag is.
- rab - The dog's dinner that comes in twelve boxes is 'it'.
Kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis
- Darren - This DVD has a commentary track.
Pupukahi i holomua.
- Raak - Dog memorials: holograms a speciality!
Ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut.
- Software - Give women the vote - god help you!
Voor me het is de echte dinge
- gil - As far as I can see, this is a real Australian wild dog.
Dinna fash yersel
- Raak - Salted fish for dinner.
Fihi-ma-fihi
- Software - Dad has spilt cream on the book
Wasser dragen naar de zee
- Dujon - You wanna drag down the promenade?
Su detrás, aunque grande, es exquisito.
- Darren - Your detritus is not only large, but exquisite.
Er verdrinken meer mensen in een glas dan in zee.
- Software - I bet I can drink you under the table!
mijn bromfiets is in het kanaal
- Raak - My bromine-impregnated insoles are advertised on the Shopping Channel.
Scrivo sol per sfogar l'interna doglia
- rab - Write only using sugar on the doggynet
Ma ei räägi palju eesti keelt
- Chalky - Mother's scruffy friend is a kilt-wearing Jew.
Schon scharret mein rösslein mit lustigem fuss.
- Darren - This cherry goes red at the first sign of fuss.
Quando finisce la partita, i pedoni, le torri, i cavalli, i vescovi, i due re e le due regine tutti vanno nello stesso scatolo.
- Software - Who invited these two queens to a party thrown for the Cavalry, bullfighters and fashion designers?
zet uw kaas bovenop de bank
- Breadmaster - I see you've made a risotto out of the cat! (Line from a 1960s American domestic sitcom.)
Certum est, quia impossibile. - Raak - Certified impossible.
quod erat faciendum
- Darren - You're being facetious.
Crea fama y acuéstate a dormir.
- Rosie - Become famous by sleeping in your extensive grounds.
Ars longa sed vita brevis.
- rab - A bigger bottom leads to a shorter life.
Confutatis maledictis,
Flammis acribus addictis:
Voca me cum benedictis.
Oro supplex et acclinis,
Cor contritum quasi cinis:
Gere curam mei finis. - Raak - This poem was found written in the margins of a copy of the Carmina Burana, itself a somewhat rude and earthy work, and is an explicit description of a gay SM scene. I shall tastefully but sketch the content: Let the sinner be seized and punished with burning flames; let him call out for my blessed [ahem]. With a supple, wide open mouth and a contrite heart he behaves as a dog; in the end he will thank me on his knees.
I'll link to the next quote rather than writing it here. The quote.
- Chalky - Re-arrange these matchsticks into a well-known sonnet.
Vergin tutto amor, sospiri di foco
- Darren - I love all virgins, and aspire to f*** them.
Tamu ya mua kifundo
- Big Dave - Tame yer monkey, it's fun.
[from a well known hymn (from memory)]
Panis angelicus
Fit panis ominum
Dat panis caelicus
Figuris terminum - Projoy - My angel cake mix
All fits into one cakepan
That pan is calico
And maintains its shape until the end.Keng-ça fou mah-jong, ca fou, puis cong-prong pas a ca o ra toujours l'air Chinoa
- Kim - Mr King beats his mah-jong, but he would not beat his con-prong for all the air in China.
Were diu werlt alle min
von deme mere unze an den Rin
des wolt ih mih darben,
daz diu chunegin von Engellant
lege an minen armen.Bonus points awarded for translation in limerick form. [Raak] Carmina Burana is a rich source. I'm surprised no-one's used it before...
- Blue Bananas - While I'm trying to figure that one out, may I offer: Pro Caelio Italian fan of diminutive Australian singer Aristophanes Something a boy really doesn't want his mum to catch him doing. Pizzicato Your dinner's in the dog. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité?
- Darren -
A werewolf is found in all men.
But those in the sea or the den:
Their wolves are much darker,
While that man Ronnie Barker (literally "that comedian from England")
Has wolves move his arms and legs, then.Nie to piekne, co piekne, ale co sie komu podoba.
- Blue Bananas - Now for a picnic; with our picnic we shall drink so much ale that we lapse into a coma.
- Blue Bananas - Sunt enim ista maledicta pervolgata in omnis quorum in adulescentia forma et species fuit liberalis
- Darren - [Blue Bananas] This isn't a move, btw. I just wanted to apologise for apparently ignoring you back there, but I started working on the answer for Kim's post before you posted yours, so I didn't see it.
- Kayl - Good diction is not a requirement among male liberals.
Olé!
- Raak - Simulposted: I had "The sound "Ni!" is an evil found throughout the vulgar classes whenever a quorum of adolescents is formed; the whole species flees from it."
Olé!: Beer!
Dào kê dào, fei cháng dào.
- Blue Bananas - [Raak] What a fantastic one! I'll tell my Latin tutor that!
- Blue Bananas - [Darren] Don't worry; I noticed when I posted. I was trying to fit Demi Moore into my limerick translation but gave up.
- Blue Bananas - Here's a few up for translation: Acanthopanax senticosus, Aesculus hippocastanum, Agathosma crenultata, Eleutherococcus senticosus, Harpogophytum procumbens, Polygonum multiflorum, Rhamnus purshiani cortex, Silybum marianum, Stellaria media, Trigonella foenum-graecum, Vitex agnus-castus, Withania somniferum, Yucca schidigera, Zingiber officinale and then there's Santalum album (Christmas music compilation)
- Wol - [BB] OK - why don't you propose one of them, and we'll have a go?
- Blue Bananas - Errr ok, Harpogophytum procumbens
- Darren - [Raak's one first:] Somebody saw somebody, fetching somebody.
[Blue Bananas' one:] The silent Marx brother has turned himself into a plant and draped himself all over the place.Taking another from BB's list, Rhamnus purshiani cortex
- Monty Terrapin's Goody Pants - Goat's head is a persian delicacy.
- Monty Terrapin's Goody Pants - Eleutherococcus senticosus anyone?
- Dujon - The elusive 'sleeping beauty'.
Tre monete in una fontana.
- Raak - Thirty coins, one currency. (Official motto of the European Monetary Union.)
Non serviam
- Hamburglar - Yam's off.
- Projoy - Tiramisù
- Wol - If you make me cry, I'll take you to court.
de minimis non curat lex.
- Darren - It's so small the vicar can't read it.
Nu este bine sã fie omul singur.
- Raak - Now is the bin-end of our Omani sangria.
Non placet
- Chalky - Where's the soap?
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
- DrQu+xum - All hail Governor Schwarzenegger (God help us!)
On puc trobar un altre bar que estigue bé? - Software - One ice-hockey player has been sent to the sin-bin.
La plume de ma tante est dans le sac de cacahouete
- rab - The tainted flowers are in the compost bag (lit: cack-sack).
Zusammen kämpfen!
- Raak - Susan is gay!
trinosophia
- Darren - This is the third time I've had to tell you to stop doing that, Sophia.
Neede was ooit een belangrijk kruispunt van spoorlijnen.
- Martha Farquar - Scram, you dozy ninny!
Wer rastet der rostet
- Raak - Who burnt the roast?
Brennstoff-Stickstoff-Verbindungen
- Kim - Teflon
Doodlesacpfeiffermachergesellenherbergenvater
- Darren - Yes.
Omul prost crede tot.
- Raak - A mother never believes her own child.
om tat sat
- Martha Farquar - The Buddhist sat on the mat
Tuuli tuli tulliin
- gil - Finnish form of "La-la la-la la-la", sung when the singer has forgotten the words.
Non anglii, sed angeli
- Kim - Not only, but also.
Maafkan saya kerana datang lambat.
- Darren - Mother can say anything which lambasts Anna's dating.
- Darren - ...and
Tumuhutuhud makaysed a tachi. - Raak - Attach the outboard motor.
Maximus Decimus Meridius
- Software - Resolve pi to 10,000 places.
meer haast minder snelheid
- Darren - I've got the complete set of Minder on video.
Mie langu jicho
- Rosie - My language irritates.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
- Dujon - The post office uses DC3s as their work horse.
¡Encima de su, compañero!
- Raak - Smile at the customers, salaryman!
Schlesischer Mohnkuchen mit dicken Butterstreuseln nach original schlesischen Familienrezept
- Darren - That film director man cooks Spotted Dick with butter for his family's unique reception.
Zweckmäßige Handlung, Orientation, Richtung
- Rosie - Deliver message by hand, face the right direction and use flowery language.
Tawelwch! Llyfrgell yw hwn, 'dach i'n gwbod.
- Tuj - Infidel! Bow down before us, the Klingon army!
En caso de ser victima o testigo de un delito en el Metro de Londres, llame a la British Transport Police. - Raak - If the trains break down, alternative transport by llama will be arranged by the British Transport Police.
Enchiridion indulgentiarum
- Darren - And Celine Dion likes being pampered with smells.
Haws twyllo maban na gwrachan.
- Software - Prostitutes around here may not be women.
de mieren onder de vloer hebben partijen
- Dujon - The meerkats over there with the voles are having a great party.
Klettern Sie jedes Gebirgssegel jedes Meer
- Chalky - The Jedi Gerbils Collective have just joined the party and are trying to convert the meerkats to Jedi-ism.
Si fallatis officium, quaestor infitias eat se quicquam scire de factis vestris
- Zooological Keeper - If you are attending the sexual needs of anyone important, ask how long it will take, if anyone knows where he is and whether it will ruin your clothes.
- Zooological Keeper - ningit, Quinte, suntne tua ilia - sine tunica talari - glaciata?
- Referee: -
Time warning: Competitors in this free-for-all MUST make their entries within a reasonable time. ZK came very close to having a substitute made ... please, all, take care with your timing - it is important to all parties (e.g. 7:30 for 8:00 means that I turn up at 9:00 so that I can watch everyone else make fools of themselves.) - Zooological Keeper - ningit, Quinte, suntne tua ilia - sine tunica talari - glaciata?
- ZK - Huh? What did I do?
- Referee -
Nuffin, apart from a 25 minute gap between answer/post; Anyhoo, never take anything here as personal, I simply have to prove that my existence is real and necessary. OK, where's the next party?So, putting entries back where they belong:
- Zooological Keeper - ningit, Quinte, suntne tua ilia - sine tunica talari - glaciata?
- Riff - Dammit, where's Quentin? He was with us a moment ago... Oh hell, we didn't leave him on the iceberg, did we?
Wenn ich lächele, habe ich eine Öffnung voll der Zähne; wenn ich die Stirn runzele, bin ich nicht hier gleichmäßig.
- Breadmaster - When I cry, I have offal full of zithering. When my stern rumbles, I don't do any glassmaking here.
Pisteuomen eis hena Theon Patera pantokratora, panton oraton te kai aoraton poiten.
Pisteuomen eis hena kyrion Iesoun Christon, ton huion tou theou, gennezenta ek tou patros monogene, toutestin ek tes ousias tou patros, theon ek theou alethinou, gennethena, ou poiethenta, homoousion toi patgri de ou ta panta egeneto, ta te en toi ouranoi kai ta epi tes ton de hemas tous anthropous kai da ten hemeteran sotererian katelthonta kai sarkothenta kai enanthropesanta, pathonta, kai anasanta tei tritei hemera, kai anelthonta eis tous othranous, kai erchomenon krinai zontas kai nekrous.
Kai eis Hagion Pneuma. - Raak - The piston is in father's underwear drawer, the underwear is being aired outside. The piston is in Kylie's bosomy chest, a ton for him, a ton for you, knees up for your father's one-legged jeans, tested on the ooze of your father, you and you with the thin ale, old jeans, or poem-ends, your manly fluids [the remainder of the text describes acts of such depravity as to endanger the reader's virtue were they to be translated].
ipso facto
- Chalky - NHS waiting list for Hip Replacements
Het spijt me, ik spreek geen Engels
- Zooological Keeper - I hate spit, me, and that bloke off Vets in Practice said it was icky too.
longum iter atque molestum eos adhuc manebat. - Angus Prune - It's a long time at the mausoleum for anyone to smack a lion on the head. (I don't know, these Romans are crazy)
Meenya yest tree syestree ee sobarka. Ya nye paneemaiyoo p'angleeski - Zooological Keeper - *overcoming temptation to translate literally* My wooden sisters are mean bitches. It's true! They spread mayonnaise on my skis and broke them.
- Zooological Keeper - Dio mio! E gia mezzogiorno! Dobbiamo sbrigarci!
- Riff - Holy crap! The pirates threw Dobby off our balcony!
- Zooological Keeper - Darling, the ant got loose in the inkwell again and this time he's having an epileptic fit.
mortam sic quisquam exhorruit - Dujon - If you tell the truth, you are dead!
Je jamais, ne fais jamais cela.
- Riff - Pyjamas! Nice pyjamas for sale!
Veuillez appeler le directeur, il y a une grenouille dans ma toilette.
- Zooological Keeper - Please call Mr Arkwright, Granville's been sick in my toilet.
- Zooological Keeper -
iudicio? quid enim saluis infamia nummis? - Darren - Eustace? Is your family so large that it costs a pound just to say hello?
Il bugiardo vuola buona memoria.
- Zooological Keeper - His budgerigar stole a skeleton of mine from the Mines of Moria!
scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes? - Angus Prune - This script is a like a terd down the neck, find the writers and arrest them!
Indem er seinen Mantel anzog und seinen Hut aufsetze, lief er aus dem Zimmer. Das Baden ist hier verboten - Tina - Sign the insurance form on the mantle; it insures your hut. Leaf through it and then boil it. Ignore the bad use of verbs.
Gott sei dank - Riff - God, I'm drunk!
Du! Deinen Kartoffelsalat ist sehr gemütlich!
- Angus Prune - Oi, you! I'm going to cart you off as a salad if your mutt does that again!
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem - Raak - Ents do not breed beyond necessity.
Gutta cavat lapidem.
- Angus Prune - My guts are carving a hole in my lap
Uppror med hjälp av gerillaförband är den verkliga krigföringsmetoden - Darren - Doctors are in uproar over help given to a band of guerilla fighters at the vertical Toden Arakawa Line tram service in Tokyo.
- Darren - Det lyt ein gong fyrst vera.
- Zooological Keeper - We are the knights who say Ni! We give you a herring with which to cut down the mightiest tree in this forest!
securus licet Aenean Rutulumque ferocem committas, nulli gravis est percussus Achilles aut multum quaesitus Hylas urnamque secutus - snorgle - Sexy licences are available from the Ferocious Reticulan Anal committee, but these don't cover beating out people's brains or multiple quantum urn sucking.
Caro dio, sesso me del high. Vorrei credere nella vostra nota. Addestrilo prego calorosamente. Dio, uno da potere me da venire!
- Angus Prune - My dear, I want to join the mile high club. It will up my street cred and yours. You'll burn off calories! Dear, please, come with me a moment!!!! (said in increasingly desperate voice to an air steward before the passenger was arrested. In her defence, she said she meant she could eat a mile high club biscuit as she was hungry)
Varmista mukava matka: aja autosi junaan. Varaa paikkasi ajoissa - Raak - 'Tis a misty, moisty morning: I must take the car to June, where I shall park joyfully.
nemo me impune lacessit
- Zooological Keeper - (Marlon) Him, my little Nemo, has left!
rubet auditor cui frigida mens est criminibus tacita sudant praecordia culpa - Software - Worldcom auditors are cold men with criminal tendancies who will deny anything is their fault.
valse hoop nooit open deuren
- Darren - It's not Hoop Night, so open the door!
O bob trwm, trymaf henaint.
- Riff - Oi, Bob, it's your turn -- I moved to Hainault.
Quid pro quo
- Kim - Tit for tat
ketam menyuruh anaknya berjalan betul
- barbacoa - Budge, Alan, fetch your anorak, get many euros and bet them all.
Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu, Pie Jesu, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem - Rosie - Pies, pies, pies, for Christ's sake. We've pecked at them since Monday. Let's finish off those kebabs.
Vedi Napoli e poi mori.
- Angus Prune - What do Acker Bilk, Ruby Wax and an old fart have in common?
Pana la sfarsitul acestui an ne propunem sa cream si o retea de corespondenti - Chalky - Pan those farcical ancestors for failing to use proper salad cream to seal their correspondence.
Una furtiva lagrima
- barbacoa - secret legroom
os mundi donare flammas et sulfurum minarit - cave quattor equites ultimae exstinctionis! - Raak - Our mouth gives forth flames and sulphurous minerals - in the cave where share dealers find their ultimate extinction! (From a description of the circles of Hell.)
Liberté, eqalité, fraternité!
- Angus Prune - Free kick - equaliser - oh brother! (From the commentary on the '98 World Cup)
- Angus Prune - Oops, my move.
När kunderna som drabbats protesterat har de mötts av hot om indrivning och stämningar - Zooological Keeper - Don't condemn some lifeless bats - a rat is picketing John Motson, now a hot Buddhist who refuses to drive Scottish cars that stutter. (A letter written to Ally McCoist by a Ukranian fan with a particularly bad dictionary)
dura lex sed lex - Raak - This motet shows you how to wash your pet's hat in the rain.
ante bellum
- plump - I implore you O sister of my proud father to please call them soonest
Danka zrob-co, bo cie zdupcza - barbacoa - Thankyou to Robbie and gang - when the crowds say Bo! Selecta
Ne pas mélanger piles neuves et usagées - Angus Prune - Please don't use melon scrapings on your piles
Muihin konsertteihin myydään lippuja kunkin tilaisuuden järjestäjän valitsemassa lippu - Raak - My concert teeth have slipped down the back of the sofa.
By way of the merest hint of a suggestion that a certain stage may have been reached:
Croissant à la Matin-Tonne
- Riff - Hmm, that looks familiar... French, is it? Let's see, morning... ton... croissant? Something about breakfast?
I'm stumped.
- Dujon - A worry, my fine friend - I wonder whether they are toasted or roasted? Nevertheless, it's the weight that bothers me! Then again, it could be something to with Easter?
I too shall retire.
- Bubbled and Squeaked (Bouillonné et grincé) - Mornington Crescent
- Megaphone - I say, Mornington Crescent!
- Audience - *shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Megaphone*
- Auntie Donna - Hearing good things about you. Although after reading this web sight I realize you are totally off the wall!!! Uncle Bill said it's not inherited, but I'm not sure about that!. Hope all is well with you, and enjoy your Christmas season.
- SARDAR - I WANT MALE SEX TOYS FRE WITHOUT CASH
- SARDAR - SEX TOY
- maddog - Any chance the game may start up again ? Quite intriguing indices to the streams of certain consciousnesses. And whence Angus Prune these days ? Have missed him since the dear ISIRTA days.
- Darren - Yeah, this was a good game. Might be worth beginning a new incarnation of it.
- hi - ff
- Raak - ff: musical sign meaning to whistle the marked passage.
- yOLnVlpLxwGGxg - map.txt;10;15
This is the end of the line. There is no more.