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From: ed...@somewhere.in.the.uk (Ed Cryer)
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 by: Ed Cryer - Thu, 9 Nov 2023 20:23 UTC

Ventis Vexatus et Acceptatus
Puero mihi videbatur confessio esse res extraordinaria. Ea enim facta
plenus gaudii fui, sed haud facile erat peccatum aptum occasioni
eligere. Eo tempore Iosius Uest optimus meus erat amicus, quem dum inter
alios stabamus die primo primae scholae cognovi, et qui amicus mansit
annos septuaginta donec abhinc duos annos mortuus est. Nobis octo annos
natis et de confessione loquentibus occurrit ei consilium excellens.
"Potest omnia mentiri", inquit "dummodo ad postremum te mendacia dixisse
confitearis, itaque prioribus dictis detersis tibi ignoscebitur". Id ego
numquam conatus sum, is tamen (sic suspicor) nam fortior me fuit.
Credebant plurimi confessionem in privato fieri, sed erant quidam
sacerdotes (pater Baldaccius inter eos) qui impudenter solebant
prudentiam ad ventos mittere. "Quidnam?" inquiebat, "pro dedecus et
infamia!". Hominibus iuxta stantibus auditum. Atque eius ianua longe
minus frequentabatur quam eae aliorum sacerdotum. Praeferebatur ad
confessionem ire sine festinatione.
(When I was a boy, I thought confession was an extraordinary thing. I
felt great afterwards. But it wasn’t easy, deciding on the right sin for
the occasion. My best friend at that time was Joe West. We met in the
line to start primary school, and he was my friend for seventy years
until he died a couple of years ago. When we were eight, we were
comparing notes about confession and he came up with a great idea. He
said, ‘You can make it all up. As long as the last thing you say is
“I’ve been telling lies”, you can cancel what you’ve just said and still
be forgiven.’ I never tried it, but I think he did. He was braver than me.
It was generally understood that your confession would be confidential.
But some priests – like Father Balducci – would throw discretion to the
wind and yell, ‘WHAT? You’re a DISGRACE! That’s DISGUSTING!!!’ People
nearby could hear it. The line outside his door was short compared to
the long lines outside the other priests’ doors. It was better to go to
confession when you weren’t in a hurry.)
Edus

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From: ed...@somewhere.in.the.uk (Ed Cryer)
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 by: Ed Cryer - Thu, 9 Nov 2023 21:20 UTC

Ed Cryer wrote:
> Ventis Vexatus et Acceptatus
>
> Puero mihi videbatur confessio esse res extraordinaria. Ea enim facta
> plenus gaudii fui, sed haud facile erat peccatum aptum occasioni
> eligere. Eo tempore Iosius Uest optimus meus erat amicus, quem dum inter
> alios stabamus die primo primae scholae cognovi, et qui amicus mansit
> annos septuaginta donec abhinc duos annos mortuus est. Nobis octo annos
> natis et de confessione loquentibus occurrit ei consilium excellens.
> "Potest omnia mentiri", inquit "dummodo ad postremum te mendacia dixisse
> confitearis, itaque prioribus dictis detersis tibi ignoscebitur". Id ego
> numquam conatus sum, is tamen (sic suspicor) nam fortior me fuit.
> Credebant plurimi confessionem in privato fieri, sed erant quidam
> sacerdotes (pater Baldaccius inter eos) qui impudenter solebant
> prudentiam ad ventos mittere. "Quidnam?" inquiebat, "pro dedecus et
> infamia!". Hominibus iuxta stantibus auditum. Atque eius ianua longe
> minus frequentabatur quam eae aliorum sacerdotum. Praeferebatur ad
> confessionem ire sine festinatione.
>
> (When I was a boy, I thought confession was an extraordinary thing. I
> felt great afterwards. But it wasn’t easy, deciding on the right sin for
> the occasion. My best friend at that time was Joe West. We met in the
> line to start primary school, and he was my friend for seventy years
> until he died a couple of years ago. When we were eight, we were
> comparing notes about confession and he came up with a great idea. He
> said, ‘You can make it all up. As long as the last thing you say is
> “I’ve been telling lies”, you can cancel what you’ve just said and still
> be forgiven.’ I never tried it, but I think he did. He was braver than me.
> It was generally understood that your confession would be confidential.
> But some priests – like Father Balducci – would throw discretion to the
> wind and yell, ‘WHAT? You’re a DISGRACE! That’s DISGUSTING!!!’ People
> nearby could hear it. The line outside his door was short compared to
> the long lines outside the other priests’ doors. It was better to go to
> confession when you weren’t in a hurry.)
>
> Edus
>
Omnes certiores faciebat circum in oppidum venisse stercus elephantorum
in via principlai iacens. Vigiles civiles oppidum solebant admonere;
elepantum via Sauchiehall cacavisse, itaque agitatoribus vehiculorum
necesse esse eum locum ut circumeundum haberi.
(You always knew when the circus was in town because there was elephant
shit all over the high street. The police would put out public warnings:
‘An elephant has shat in Sauchiehall Street. Drivers are asked to treat
it as a roundabout.)

Edus

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From: desidar...@free.fr (Desidarius)
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 by: Desidarius - Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:12 UTC

Le 09/11/2023 à 22:20, Ed Cryer a écrit :
> Ed Cryer wrote:
>> Ventis Vexatus et Acceptatus
>>
>> Puero mihi videbatur confessio esse res extraordinaria. Ea enim facta
>> plenus gaudii fui, sed haud facile erat peccatum aptum occasioni
>> eligere. Eo tempore Iosius Uest optimus meus erat amicus, quem dum
>> inter alios stabamus die primo primae scholae cognovi, et qui amicus
>> mansit annos septuaginta donec abhinc duos annos mortuus est. Nobis
>> octo annos natis et de confessione loquentibus occurrit ei consilium
>> excellens. "Potest omnia mentiri", inquit "dummodo ad postremum te
>> mendacia dixisse confitearis, itaque prioribus dictis detersis tibi
>> ignoscebitur". Id ego numquam conatus sum, is tamen (sic suspicor) nam
>> fortior me fuit.
>> Credebant plurimi confessionem in privato fieri, sed erant quidam
>> sacerdotes (pater Baldaccius inter eos) qui impudenter solebant
>> prudentiam ad ventos mittere. "Quidnam?" inquiebat, "pro dedecus et
>> infamia!". Hominibus iuxta stantibus auditum. Atque eius ianua longe
>> minus frequentabatur quam eae aliorum sacerdotum. Praeferebatur ad
>> confessionem ire sine festinatione.
>>
>> (When I was a boy, I thought confession was an extraordinary thing. I
>> felt great afterwards. But it wasn’t easy, deciding on the right sin
>> for the occasion. My best friend at that time was Joe West. We met in
>> the line to start primary school, and he was my friend for seventy
>> years until he died a couple of years ago. When we were eight, we were
>> comparing notes about confession and he came up with a great idea. He
>> said, ‘You can make it all up. As long as the last thing you say is
>> “I’ve been telling lies”, you can cancel what you’ve just said and
>> still be forgiven.’ I never tried it, but I think he did. He was
>> braver than me.
>> It was generally understood that your confession would be
>> confidential. But some priests – like Father Balducci – would throw
>> discretion to the wind and yell, ‘WHAT? You’re a DISGRACE! That’s
>> DISGUSTING!!!’ People nearby could hear it. The line outside his door
>> was short compared to the long lines outside the other priests’ doors.
>> It was better to go to confession when you weren’t in a hurry.)
>>
>> Edus
>>
> Omnes certiores faciebat circum in oppidum venisse stercus elephantorum
> in via principlai iacens. Vigiles civiles oppidum solebant admonere;
> elepantum via Sauchiehall cacavisse, itaque agitatoribus vehiculorum
> necesse esse eum locum ut circumeundum haberi.
>
> (You always knew when the circus was in town because there was elephant
> shit all over the high street. The police would put out public warnings:
> ‘An elephant has shat in Sauchiehall Street. Drivers are asked to treat
> it as a roundabout.)
>
>
> Edus
>

Licentiam pilotae in patria tua adipisci speciales et prorsus
extraordinarias artes requirit.

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Subject: Re: Windswept and Interesting : Billy Connolly
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 by: t400ec - Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:26 UTC

Gratias ago, Ede pro loco allato Latine reddito. Certe hunc histrionem
vidi in pellicua 'Illius Lemony Snicket Series Eventuum Infelicum' et
fortasse etiam in 'Domina Brown.' In symbola Vicipediana de Billii
Connolly, haec paragraphus mihi animum advertit:
Connolly was born to Catholic parents, William Connolly and Mary McLean,
both of whom were of partly Irish descent.[15] In 1946, when he was four
years old, Connolly's mother left her children while their father was
serving as an engineer in the Royal Air Force in Burma.[14] "I've never
felt abandoned by her," Connolly explained in 2009.[16] "My mother was a
teenager. My father was in Burma, fighting a bloody war. The Germans
were dropping all sorts of crap on the town. We lived at the docks, so
that's where all the bombs were happening. She was a teenager with two
kids in a slum. A guy comes along and says, 'I love you. Come with me.'
Given the choice, I think I'd have gone with him. It looks as though it
might all end next Wednesday, from where you're standing. I don't have
an ounce of feelings that she abandoned me. She tried to survive."[16]
[ Dominus Connolly parentibus Vilhelmo Connolly et Mariae Mclean,
ambobus partim progenie Hibernica oriundis, fide Catholica asseclis
natus est. Anno 1946 mater puerum quadrimulum et sororem eius maiorem
annis natam reliquit dum pater ut ingeniarus in classe aeria regia in
Burma servit. "Numquam me sensi ab ea desertum," explanavit anno 2009.
Mater mea tum erat adolescentula. Pater in Burma versabatur, bellum
sanguineum pugnans. Germani quisquilias omnium generum in oppido
demittebant. Prope navalia textrina habitabamus, ideoque ibi pyrobola
explodere solebant. Adolescentula erat cum duobus liberis in vico
suburano. Homunculus progreditur aitque "Te amo. Mecum veni." Optione
mihi praebita, reor me ipsum secutum fuisse eum. Res ita habentur quasi
omnia finem habeant proximo die Martio, e conspectu ubi tum versaris. Ne
hilum quidem affectuum sentio improbabilium de matre, me relicto. Conata
est supervivere."
On 11/9/2023 15:20, Ed Cryer wrote:
> Ed Cryer wrote:
>> Ventis Vexatus et Acceptatus
>>
>> Puero mihi videbatur confessio esse res extraordinaria. Ea enim facta
>> plenus gaudii fui, sed haud facile erat peccatum aptum occasioni
>> eligere. Eo tempore Iosius Uest optimus meus erat amicus, quem dum
>> inter alios stabamus die primo primae scholae cognovi, et qui amicus
>> mansit annos septuaginta donec abhinc duos annos mortuus est. Nobis
>> octo annos natis et de confessione loquentibus occurrit ei consilium
>> excellens. "Potest omnia mentiri", inquit "dummodo ad postremum te
>> mendacia dixisse confitearis, itaque prioribus dictis detersis tibi
>> ignoscebitur". Id ego numquam conatus sum, is tamen (sic suspicor) nam
>> fortior me fuit.
>> Credebant plurimi confessionem in privato fieri, sed erant quidam
>> sacerdotes (pater Baldaccius inter eos) qui impudenter solebant
>> prudentiam ad ventos mittere. "Quidnam?" inquiebat, "pro dedecus et
>> infamia!". Hominibus iuxta stantibus auditum. Atque eius ianua longe
>> minus frequentabatur quam eae aliorum sacerdotum. Praeferebatur ad
>> confessionem ire sine festinatione.
>>
>> (When I was a boy, I thought confession was an extraordinary thing. I
>> felt great afterwards. But it wasn’t easy, deciding on the right sin
>> for the occasion. My best friend at that time was Joe West. We met in
>> the line to start primary school, and he was my friend for seventy
>> years until he died a couple of years ago. When we were eight, we were
>> comparing notes about confession and he came up with a great idea. He
>> said, ‘You can make it all up. As long as the last thing you say is
>> “I’ve been telling lies”, you can cancel what you’ve just said and
>> still be forgiven.’ I never tried it, but I think he did. He was
>> braver than me.
>> It was generally understood that your confession would be
>> confidential. But some priests – like Father Balducci – would throw
>> discretion to the wind and yell, ‘WHAT? You’re a DISGRACE! That’s
>> DISGUSTING!!!’ People nearby could hear it. The line outside his door
>> was short compared to the long lines outside the other priests’ doors.
>> It was better to go to confession when you weren’t in a hurry.)
>>
>> Edus
>>
> Omnes certiores faciebat circum in oppidum venisse stercus elephantorum
> in via principlai iacens. Vigiles civiles oppidum solebant admonere;
> elepantum via Sauchiehall cacavisse, itaque agitatoribus vehiculorum
> necesse esse eum locum ut circumeundum haberi.
>
> (You always knew when the circus was in town because there was elephant
> shit all over the high street. The police would put out public warnings:
> ‘An elephant has shat in Sauchiehall Street. Drivers are asked to treat
> it as a roundabout.)
>
>
> Edus
>

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 by: t400ec - Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:35 UTC

oops. lunes, martes, miercoles..... so if it had been Tuesday (Tiusday)
it should have been die Martis but it was Wednesday so .... die Mercurii.
On 11/10/2023 12:26, t400ec wrote:
> Gratias ago, Ede pro loco allato Latine reddito. Certe hunc histrionem
> vidi in pellicua 'Illius Lemony Snicket Series Eventuum Infelicum' et
> fortasse etiam in 'Domina Brown.'  In symbola Vicipediana de Billii
> Connolly, haec paragraphus mihi animum advertit:
>
> Connolly was born to Catholic parents, William Connolly and Mary McLean,
> both of whom were of partly Irish descent.[15] In 1946, when he was four
> years old, Connolly's mother left her children while their father was
> serving as an engineer in the Royal Air Force in Burma.[14] "I've never
> felt abandoned by her," Connolly explained in 2009.[16] "My mother was a
> teenager. My father was in Burma, fighting a bloody war. The Germans
> were dropping all sorts of crap on the town. We lived at the docks, so
> that's where all the bombs were happening. She was a teenager with two
> kids in a slum. A guy comes along and says, 'I love you. Come with me.'
> Given the choice, I think I'd have gone with him. It looks as though it
> might all end next Wednesday, from where you're standing. I don't have
> an ounce of feelings that she abandoned me. She tried to survive."[16]
>
> [ Dominus Connolly parentibus Vilhelmo Connolly et Mariae Mclean,
> ambobus partim progenie Hibernica oriundis,  fide Catholica asseclis
> natus est. Anno 1946 mater puerum quadrimulum et sororem eius maiorem
> annis natam reliquit dum pater ut ingeniarus in classe aeria regia in
> Burma servit. "Numquam me sensi ab ea desertum," explanavit anno 2009.
> Mater mea tum erat adolescentula. Pater in Burma versabatur, bellum
> sanguineum pugnans. Germani quisquilias omnium generum in oppido
> demittebant. Prope navalia textrina habitabamus, ideoque ibi pyrobola
> explodere solebant. Adolescentula erat cum duobus liberis in vico
> suburano. Homunculus progreditur aitque "Te amo. Mecum veni." Optione
> mihi praebita, reor me ipsum secutum fuisse eum. Res ita habentur quasi
> omnia finem habeant proximo die Martio, e conspectu ubi tum versaris. Ne
> hilum quidem affectuum sentio improbabilium de matre, me relicto. Conata
> est supervivere."
>
> On 11/9/2023 15:20, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> Ed Cryer wrote:
>>> Ventis Vexatus et Acceptatus
>>>
>>> Puero mihi videbatur confessio esse res extraordinaria. Ea enim facta
>>> plenus gaudii fui, sed haud facile erat peccatum aptum occasioni
>>> eligere. Eo tempore Iosius Uest optimus meus erat amicus, quem dum
>>> inter alios stabamus die primo primae scholae cognovi, et qui amicus
>>> mansit annos septuaginta donec abhinc duos annos mortuus est. Nobis
>>> octo annos natis et de confessione loquentibus occurrit ei consilium
>>> excellens. "Potest omnia mentiri", inquit "dummodo ad postremum te
>>> mendacia dixisse confitearis, itaque prioribus dictis detersis tibi
>>> ignoscebitur". Id ego numquam conatus sum, is tamen (sic suspicor)
>>> nam fortior me fuit.
>>> Credebant plurimi confessionem in privato fieri, sed erant quidam
>>> sacerdotes (pater Baldaccius inter eos) qui impudenter solebant
>>> prudentiam ad ventos mittere. "Quidnam?" inquiebat, "pro dedecus et
>>> infamia!". Hominibus iuxta stantibus auditum. Atque eius ianua longe
>>> minus frequentabatur quam eae aliorum sacerdotum. Praeferebatur ad
>>> confessionem ire sine festinatione.
>>>
>>> (When I was a boy, I thought confession was an extraordinary thing. I
>>> felt great afterwards. But it wasn’t easy, deciding on the right sin
>>> for the occasion. My best friend at that time was Joe West. We met in
>>> the line to start primary school, and he was my friend for seventy
>>> years until he died a couple of years ago. When we were eight, we
>>> were comparing notes about confession and he came up with a great
>>> idea. He said, ‘You can make it all up. As long as the last thing you
>>> say is “I’ve been telling lies”, you can cancel what you’ve just said
>>> and still be forgiven.’ I never tried it, but I think he did. He was
>>> braver than me.
>>> It was generally understood that your confession would be
>>> confidential. But some priests – like Father Balducci – would throw
>>> discretion to the wind and yell, ‘WHAT? You’re a DISGRACE! That’s
>>> DISGUSTING!!!’ People nearby could hear it. The line outside his door
>>> was short compared to the long lines outside the other priests’
>>> doors. It was better to go to confession when you weren’t in a hurry.)
>>>
>>> Edus
>>>
>> Omnes certiores faciebat circum in oppidum venisse stercus
>> elephantorum in via principlai iacens. Vigiles civiles oppidum
>> solebant admonere; elepantum via Sauchiehall cacavisse, itaque
>> agitatoribus vehiculorum necesse esse eum locum ut circumeundum haberi.
>>
>> (You always knew when the circus was in town because there was
>> elephant shit all over the high street. The police would put out
>> public warnings: ‘An elephant has shat in Sauchiehall Street. Drivers
>> are asked to treat it as a roundabout.)
>>
>>
>> Edus
>>

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t400ec wrote:
> Gratias ago, Ede pro loco allato Latine reddito. Certe hunc histrionem
> vidi in pellicua 'Illius Lemony Snicket Series Eventuum Infelicum' et
> fortasse etiam in 'Domina Brown.'  In symbola Vicipediana de Billii
> Connolly, haec paragraphus mihi animum advertit:
>
> Connolly was born to Catholic parents, William Connolly and Mary McLean,
> both of whom were of partly Irish descent.[15] In 1946, when he was four
> years old, Connolly's mother left her children while their father was
> serving as an engineer in the Royal Air Force in Burma.[14] "I've never
> felt abandoned by her," Connolly explained in 2009.[16] "My mother was a
> teenager. My father was in Burma, fighting a bloody war. The Germans
> were dropping all sorts of crap on the town. We lived at the docks, so
> that's where all the bombs were happening. She was a teenager with two
> kids in a slum. A guy comes along and says, 'I love you. Come with me.'
> Given the choice, I think I'd have gone with him. It looks as though it
> might all end next Wednesday, from where you're standing. I don't have
> an ounce of feelings that she abandoned me. She tried to survive."[16]
>
> [ Dominus Connolly parentibus Vilhelmo Connolly et Mariae Mclean,
> ambobus partim progenie Hibernica oriundis,  fide Catholica asseclis
> natus est. Anno 1946 mater puerum quadrimulum et sororem eius maiorem
> annis natam reliquit dum pater ut ingeniarus in classe aeria regia in
> Burma servit. "Numquam me sensi ab ea desertum," explanavit anno 2009.
> Mater mea tum erat adolescentula. Pater in Burma versabatur, bellum
> sanguineum pugnans. Germani quisquilias omnium generum in oppido
> demittebant. Prope navalia textrina habitabamus, ideoque ibi pyrobola
> explodere solebant. Adolescentula erat cum duobus liberis in vico
> suburano. Homunculus progreditur aitque "Te amo. Mecum veni." Optione
> mihi praebita, reor me ipsum secutum fuisse eum. Res ita habentur quasi
> omnia finem habeant proximo die Martio, e conspectu ubi tum versaris. Ne
> hilum quidem affectuum sentio improbabilium de matre, me relicto. Conata
> est supervivere."
>
Glasuegiani sunt sui generis. Ego sum Anglicus, sed Caledoniam bene
scio; praecipue terras altas. Glasuegianos tamen numquam intellegam.
Videntur enim prima facie esse homines plebis et qui suam plebitatem
gloriantur. Nihil se dicunt velle cultus medii ordinis; tum postquam
amici facti sunt de litteris Russicis incipiunt loqui; et quo plus vini
bibunt eo plus eruditionis exhibent.
Edus

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