C'mon DMcG don't be coy what DOES 'Vivant omnes virgines/Faciles, formosae' translate as - my high school Latin deserted me Loooooooonnnng ago - got pretty much the same comment on my Latin marks at years' end as banjoman got for music. The best I could come up with was - nope, forget it. Literal; translation makes NO bloody sense at ALL!!! I was going to ask if DMcG went to the same school as me, but Liverpool is a fair way from Melbourne, Aust. Maybe it's just that Christian Brothers the world round are just sadistic, sarcastic bastards - maybe it's an entry requirement. Here are a couple of other report-card gems I've heard - fortunately not applied to me: This child would be out of her depth in a parking lot puddle Your child has, academically speaking, hit rock bottom - and started digging.
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