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MayReasonRule

(3,325 posts)
Mon May 12, 2025, 09:26 AM 4 hrs ago

And so the Greeks send me this horse,...

And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”



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eppur_se_muova

(39,052 posts)
3. Actually, that was a mistake ... I went looking for the apocryphal Galileo quote "And yet it moves" ...
Mon May 12, 2025, 10:28 AM
3 hrs ago

in the original language, and found this in an Italian magazine after a Google search -- looks like it was some kind of pun, relevant to some article I didn't read, and too late to change without making searches more troublesome ...

At the time, I didn't even consider that Galileo would have spoken the Tuscan dialect, and that the differences among Italian dialects are substantial ... so maybe my nom de net works in some obscure dialect with a handful of surviving speakers ! (This is sort of a variant of the imbiber's "It's five o'clock somewhere" argument.)

(BTW, apparently "e pur si muova" would be correct. Ah, hindsight!)

MayReasonRule

(3,325 posts)
7. Ah Well... Lol... It's Still An Excellent Moniker In It's Own Right...
Mon May 12, 2025, 12:01 PM
2 hrs ago

I made every day "Friday" decades ago...

That way I'm always working for the weekend AND I get to be right at least once a week.

Perhaps one day I can succeed in being correct as often as a broken clock...
Perhaps...

mitch96

(15,184 posts)
4. That plane will have so many bugs that it will need a total DDT clean out..Trojan is right...nt
Mon May 12, 2025, 10:30 AM
3 hrs ago

Bo Zarts

(25,991 posts)
6. Every day is Christmas for Little Donnie .. and he so wants needs this Trojan Pony.
Mon May 12, 2025, 11:58 AM
2 hrs ago

Because when Donnie was a little boy he was bad-to-the-bone, and mommy and daddy didn't get him shit (except reform school). So Donnie is now taking out his early childhood development "problems" on the world.

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