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Mors ultima ratio

Fluctuat nec mergitur

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Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore (I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting. )

Audentes fortuna juvat (Fortune favors the bold)

De omnis Belgae fortissimi sunt (Of all these, the Belgians are the bravest/strongest .)

the other two I will not post since they are sexual things <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badsmile2.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Could you please translate your phrases ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/exclamation.gif" alt="" />

QED - quod erat demonstrandum - a thing that was to be proved

status quo - the current state (something is in) - also the name of a band <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Fluctuat nec mergitur = il vogue sans jamais être submergé

Et in Arcadia ego.

Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turris. Pale death knocks with equal foot on the houses of the poor and the palaces of the rich. Horace, Odes, 1.4.13-14.

Gratis ... hmm you got that one for nothing <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

and 1 of these days I like to take Bartie, Lafille, Luc and L_R in camera sub-rosa <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

If you want i can send you some X.Ray pictures of me.

Mors ultima ratio - Death is the final accounting

Mine would be "Mors Ab Alto"

Loosely translates to "Death from Above"

I wear it to work on my wing patch every day. We have heavy bombers at our base.

in vino veritas! " -you find thruth through wine-

[color:"yellow"] Asta la Vista ....Baby ! [/color] <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

that is not Latin. That is Spanish I think.

Aspirat primo Fortuna labori <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

Ave Maria. Gloria plena.

From the song. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


I also like one that can be found in Dan Brown's Digital Fortress :

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Who will guard the guards?
Makes you think. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

That is also used in a season finale of justice league unlimited where batman asks green arrow Quis "custodiet ipsos custodes?" And green arrow answers that he has it covered (green arrows superpower is his unmovable moral compass <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> )

Do I get a cookie now?

Übereil

Gratias <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />

even that would be "bellus" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

hey i want those x-ray pix of Barta! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> i like women with good bone structure. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

my fav latin phrase? or most used? quid pro quo <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Victoria Per Procinctu

Victory through Readiness

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