My brother Bode gave this list to me sometime in the 1970's. [He thought it might be a cure for my sesquipedalian impulses!] See if you can figure out these familiar sayings:
1. SIMILAR SIRE, SIMILAR SCION (ok: I'll give this one to you: "Like father, like son")
2. PRECIPITANCY CREATES PRODIGALITY
3. TENANTS OF VITREOUS ABODES OUGHT TO HURL NO LITHOIDAL FRAGMENTS
4. IT IS NOT PROPER FOR MENDICANTS TO BE INDICATORS OF PREFERENCES
5. COMPUTE NOT YOUR IMMATURE GALLINACEOUS FOWL PRIOR TO THEIR BEING
6. IT IS FRUITLESS TO BECOME LACHRYMOSE BECAUSE OF SCATTERED LACTEAL FLUID
7. CLEAVE GRAMINEOUS MATTER FOR FODDER DURING THE PERIOD THAT THE ORB OF THE DAY IS REFULGENT
8. A FELINE POSSESSES THE POWER TO CONTEMPLATE A MONARCH
9. PULCHRITUDE DOES NOT EXTEND BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE DERMA
10. FAILURE TO BE PRESENT CASES THE VITAL ORGAN TO BECOME MORE ENAMORED
11. EVERY ARTICLE WHICH CORUSCATES IS NOT FASHIONED FROM AUREATE MATERIAL
12. FREEDOM FROM GUILE OR FRAUD CONSTITUTES THE MOST EXCELLENT PRINCIPLE OF PROCEDURE
13. EACH CANINE PASSES THROUGH HIS PERIOD OF PRE-EMINENCE
14. CONSOLIDATED, YOU AND I MAINTAIN OURSELVES ERECT; SEPARATED WE DEFER TO THE LAW OF GRAVITY
15. YOU CANNOT ESTIMATE THE VALUE OF THE CONTENTS OF BOUND, PRINTED NARRATIVE OR RECORD FROM ITS EXTERIOR VESTURE
16. FOLD DEFICIENT IN ORDINARY JUDGMENT SCURRINGLY ENTER AREAS ON WHICH CELESTIAL BEINGS DREAD TO SET FOOT
17. LIQUID RELISH FOR THE FEMALE ANSERINE FOWL IS THE INDIVIDUAL CONDIMENT FOR THE MALE
18. A FEATHERED CREATURE CLASPED IN THE MANUAL MEMBERS IS EQUAL IN VALUE TO A BRACE IN THE BUSHY GROWTH
19. INDIVIDUAL IN THE CLASS ARES, ARRIVING BEFORE THE APPOINTED TIME, SEIZES THE INVERTEBRATE ANIMAL, THE GROUP VERMES
20. SOCIALLY ORIENTED INDIVIDUALS TEND TO CONGREGATE IN GREGARIOUSLY HOMOGENEOUS GROUPINGS
21. ONE MAY ADDRESS A MEMBER OF THE EQUIDAE FAMILY TOWARD AQUEOUS LIQUID, BUT ONE IS INCAPABLE OF COMPELLING HIM TO QUAFF
22. FOREVER REFRAIN FROM ENUMERATING THE DENTAL PROJECTIONS OF A BEQUEATHED MEMBER OF THE EQUIDAE FAMILY
23. ONE PYRUS MALUS PER DIEM RESTRAINS THE ARRIVAL OF THE HIPPOCRATIC APOSTLE
24. FONDNESS FOR NOTES OF EXCHANGE CONSTITUTES THE TUBEROUS STRUCTURE OF ALL SATANICALLY INSPIRED PRINCIPLES
25. SUPPOSING ONE PRIMARILY FAILS TO BE VICTORIOUS, BEND FURTHER EFFORTS IN THAT DIRECTION
26. BE ADORNED WITH THE PEDAL ENCASEMENT THAT GIVES COMFORT
27. PRUDENCE AND SAGACITY ARE THE WORTHIER CONDIMENTS OF INTREPID COURAGE
28. HE WHO EXPRESSES MERRIMENT IN FINALITY EXPRESSES MERRIMENT EXCELLING EITHER IN EQUAL QUALITY
29. A BEHOLDEN VESSEL NEVER EXCEEDS 212 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT
30. A ROTATING LITHOIDAL FRAGMENT NEVER ACCRUES LICHEN
BE SURE TO CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR THE ANSWERS - SEE HOW MANY YOU GOT RIGHT!
1 comment:
I recall a forum posting when somebody wrote:
"ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM EST" stating that it was the Latin for "Don't let the bastards wear you down" and you wrote that was attributed to General Joe Stillwell as his motto, BUT the correct Latin was:
"NOLI NOTHIS PERMITTERE TO TERERE"
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