Yep. Give ‘em a little ipso facto and you’ll be in high cotton.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Feb 7, 2015, at 4:39 PM, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Saw that one too, Bob. Maybe that's why my communications skills are slow
> to develop here in Mexico. I've been busy learning Spanish, when apparently
> I needed to be learning Latin. :-/
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> It always has been wacko. But now, we have instant communication to
>> highlight the insanity, such as in Vermont, where a number of internet
>> trolls jumped on a _Republican_ state senator for sponsoring a bill to
>> include a high-school student’s proposed addition to the state motto.
>> According to the Portland Press_Herald, a ninth-grader proposed adding to
>> “Freedom & Unity,” the state’s current motto, the Latin phrase “Stella
>> Quarta Decima Fulgeat”: “The Fourteenth Star Shines Bright.” The trolls,
>> providing irrefutable proof that our gene pool is way over its limit of
>> fleet-fingered morons, seemed to believe that Latin and Latino are
>> synonyms, because, as we all know (cough-cough) Latin is the language of
>> Latin America.
>>
>> In fairness, others jumped in to provide the idiots with lessons in
>> language, history and geography.
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