Tuesday 1 March 2011

Competition time - I need a motto

Now I am Knighted I am sorting out my coat of arms (see here).

I need a motto to go with it, preferably something in Latin.

I reckon something based on a phrase that my spoofer Sir Stephen Bubb has used 9 times in his blog since August would be appropriate.

So I might go for

"Narro bollox ut vox, sententia bollox ut verum"

Which as I am sure you good people with a clear grasp of Latin like what I have (being as I am educated in dead languages at Oxonia, rectus), know means:

"Saying bollocks to truth, speaking bollocks to power"

But if anyone wants to suggest a different one there may be a prize in it.

5 comments:

  1. How about "Non semper dignitas exeunt" -I rarely make a dignified exit

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  2. Pick anyone of the following !

    "Brevis esse latoro obscurus fio"
    (When I try to be brief I speak gobbledegook)

    "Hune tu carte"
    (Beware of this man !)

    "Bene cum latine nescias, nolo, manus meas in te maculre"
    (Well if you don't understand plain latin I am not going to dirty my hands on you.)

    "Canis timidis vehementis talrat quam mordet"
    (A timid dog barks more violently than it bites)

    Sir Bumble of Heep.

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  3. Carpe partem diei postmeridianam :: Seize the afternoon

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  4. Caput supra murum (or something like that) - head above the parapet

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  5. "cave ne eas" is good, because it warns people about the dangers of leaving the house without an umbrella -- and it also sounds like "cauneas", whose leaves are necessary during times of savage cuts.

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