SSALP: Catapults

You know 'em. You love 'em. That handy dandy tool of destruction, the catapult. There are so many phrases concerning catapults that I'm splitting this SSALP. Here's round one.

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

Cum catapultae proscriptae erat, tum soli proscript catapultas habeunt.
If catapaults are outlawed, then only outlaws will only have catapaults.

That's round one done, catapult fans. Until next time...

SSALP: Computers

Although they didn't exist when Latin reigned, that doesn't mean it can't be used to say all kinds of things about those wonderful portal to the internet. Here's a few I found just lying around.

Valui ad satanam in computatrum meum invocandum.
I succeeded in summoning satan into my computer.


Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!
Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

I hope these are useful in your everyday life. I must be going, I have conspiracies to unravel. Until next time...

Musings 10: Battle Royale 2

This time I was thinking about a fight between Nero and Augustus. Both emperors, one more ruthless and crazy than the other. But the winner in this case is pretty obvious: Augustus. Not only was he an excellent warrior, he was in better mental and physical shape than Nero. But Nero could have at least thrown some sand in his eyes before being beheaded.

Until next time...

Musings 9: Land of the Lost

I've decided that I'm not a huge fan of the original Land of the Lost television show. For the last couple days I've been watching it on SciFi and i can't bring myself to enjoy it. Maybe it's the terrible CGI backgrounds and puppets or the less than compelling survival tale but I just don't like it. Oh, and if you're wondering how this pertains to Latin, in Land of the Lost there are tons of Roman and Greek ruins.

Until next time...

Musings 8: Roman teenagers

I wonder if teens in the age of the Roman empire were as dark and rebellious as they are now? I highly doubt it though, mostly because rebellion would be the last thing on my mind when all sorts of conquest and debauchery lay before me. Ancient Rome would have been fun.

Until next time...

SSALP: Jaws Edition

We here at Rancor are winding down the year with some of our most thought provoking posts to date, but we haven't forgot about all you Latin junkies. So now in favor of summer and sharks in general Rancor is proud to present: Super Special Awesome Latin Phrases Jaws Edition!!!

Quid est illa in auqua?
What's that in the water?

Pistrix! Pistrix!
Shark! Shark!

I hope these serve you well in the coming months. Well that's it for us right now at Rancor but be sure to check back in for more musings. As for us, we need to get a bigger boat. Until next time...

Guidelines for EC Fashion PP

1. Choose an article of clothing worn between 3000BCE and 1400CE
2. Possible cultures to look at
- Persian
- Mesopotamian
- Greek
- Egyptian
- Roman
- Scythian
- India
- China
- Medieval European
- France
• Italy
• Germany
• Low countries
• Scan/Viking
- Byzantine Europe
• Greek
• Turkish
• Balkan
- Early Renascence
• Italy
• France
• Spain
• England


3. General discussion
- History of the object


5. Compare/ contrast between 2 cultures

6. Requirements
- There must be a Latin connection

Final Product: Multimedia A/V Power Point

Musings 7: Battle Royale

Being a man who enjoys such sports as arm wrestling and crocodile hunting, I've occasionally pondered what might be some ultimate cataclysmic battles. Today i have chosen to share one of these scenarios with you. That fight is between Thor, the mighty Norse god of thunder, and Zeus, the leader of the Greek gods of Olympus. Both are formidable contenders. Zeus led the war against the titans, ultimately defeating them and killing his own father. Thor is constantly dueling with the Midguard Serpent. So who would win in a duel? My vote goes to Thor. Mostly because he has an awesome hammer.

Until next time...

Musings 6: Robots

I just had the strangest thought. Caesar was such a great and powerful man and perhaps the greatest general of the ancient world. He was unstoppable. But what if Caesar was no mortal man. My theory is that Caesar was a model T-800 terminator sent back in time to turn the republic of Rome into an empire. And although he succeeded in this he was killed by the original members of the Resistance: the Roman Senate! So the world we live in is actually an alternate reality from the one that actually was! But in this reality Skynet is just a part of the Terminator movie series, not a real threat to humanity. So by sending the terminator back in time to turn rome into an empire, Skynet saved humanity and turned itself into a movie character. Man, life sure is crazy!

This has been the 6th installment in a series of many. Until next time...

Musings 5: Reckless Driving

Did anyone ever get pulled over for speeding in ancient Rome? I would say not mostly because I can't see the emperor deploying soldiers to patrol the roads and check if someone on horseback is going a little quick. Also there was really no way of knowing how fast someone was going. But if someone was being reckless on the roads they could easily have been taken care of by a Roman soldier. A little ruthless but that avoids all the red tape.

This has been the 5th installment in a series of many. Until next time...