BS: Timeo Danaos...(with apologies to Don)

Subject: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 07:25 AM

...et dona ferentes.

Greek parcels halted
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 03 Nov 10 - 08:00 PM

Seem to be home-grown. Need to be caught and given long terms at hard labor.

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 11:27 AM

May I pedantically request that the title of this thread be emended to "Timeo Danaos...", which is what Virgil actually wrote, please?

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 02:02 PM

Ah yes, Virgil. I remember him well.
He was the nicest of the Earp brothers.

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: Ernest
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 03:04 PM

Oh - and I thought Virgil Earp SHOT Timothy Danaos and Donna Ferrentes...

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: GUEST,^&*
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 03:09 PM

Nah - they were two Paddies called Timmy Dan Aos and Donal Ferentes in the wonderful At Swim Two Birds , surely?

An' if dey wuz cowboys, they kemm from Ringsend, IIRC

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: Micca
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 04:38 PM

So Roger if a Horse shaped parcel arrives in the post with Greek stamps on it I should not accept it?

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 06:26 PM

:)

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 06:36 PM

Yeah, the Earp Brothers...out here in The West we called 'em "The Fightin' Pimps."

Not to their face, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Nov 10 - 06:39 PM

So Roger if a Horse shaped parcel arrives in the post with Greek stamps on it I should not accept it?

Well - at least tr(o)y to refuse it! ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 03:20 AM

Wonder what Helena Troi (younger sister of Star Trek's Counselor Deanna Troi) would think of all these facetious postings?

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 05:13 AM

So back to a serious, if pedantic, one. It still says 'Donaos' when it ought to be 'Danaos', as written in the Æneid by Publius Vergilius Mario {no relation to any of the Earps}; so may it be corrected please?

Thank you.

~Michael~



------Done. I'd have used a strikethrough except... JoeClone-----

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Donaos...
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 05:16 AM

Oops ~ MARO, not 'Mario'. Blush blush, where is my pedantic cred to end up if I go making booboos like that!

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Danaos...(with apologies to Don)
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 06:32 AM

Maximas tibi gratias ago, - Joe aut Clone, {or whatever may be the vocative for these}.

~Micaelus~

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Danaos...(with apologies to Don)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 06:54 AM

Apologies for the typo. I only passed O level Latin at the second attempt 50 years ago.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Danaos...(with apologies to Don)
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 07:12 AM

That's funny, Roger ~~ so did I, only in my case 62 years ago! But for some reason that tag stays with me...

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Timeo Danaos...(with apologies to Don)
From: Micca
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 12:29 PM

I had it Framed on my desk as a guide to dealing with Academic Staff along with the Biblical quote, " Put not your faith in Princes" None of them ever asked its significance!!!