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syzygy

16th May 2015, 20:35
I'll take cheddar over some of these cheeses,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3OQECSDoQ

especially this one:
http://tinyurl.com/n8q9ax2

There is no privacy anymore. As soon as I read the last two, this site popped up an ad for Vancouver theatre tickets.
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teenieleek

16th May 2015, 21:00
Just read the poetry thread - very good. Couldn't understand the Latin, I got thrown out of Latin after one year having reduced the class to helpless laughter while attempting to conjugate/decline/recite hic haic hoc (?) and my best line came out as hee, hi, ho. I
have NEVER lived this down.
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aristophanes

16th May 2015, 23:03
Rosalind: My Vermont cheddar is encased in wax.
Syzzie: But after seeing those maggots I may only buy shrink-wrapped cheese from now on!
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syzygy

17th May 2015, 03:03
Teenieleek, at least you amused the class. Humour is the paramount achievement of humans, IMHO (as they now say. Another degradation of the language. *) If we could go back to laughing at each other, and ourselves, perhaps tensions would defuse. Then again, not PC now, and remember Charlie Hebdo.

The translation was in post #4:
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/359060/offset/3
My high-school Latin isn't the best; long time ago. Looking at that now, I see some errors & could probably rephrase it, maybe even make it rhyme.
Word placement is relatively flexible because the inflection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection
indicates the case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case
e.g. the dog sees the cat
canis videt feles
canis feles videt

My language has very similar declensions. English lost that after 1066 and became somewhat of a pidgin language to accommodate the invaders. Just the pronouns are left and those may meld as well.
* Witness the (mis)use of I & me . Heaven help us if spelling gets standardized:
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/15502/offset/926
Cryptics would go the way of the dodo.

I'll shut up now.

Cheers. Ad dies meliora.
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syzygy

18th May 2015, 02:03
Thanks, Rosalind.

I was just about to post the same article.

Good news for those who order a pizza with double cheese & a cheese-stuffed crust, with "cheesy bread" on the side.
Perhaps someone has done a similar study for bacon.

Mmmmm, b-a-c-o-n ! (-;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoYjjgWTth4


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rosalind

18th May 2015, 10:22
Unfortunately the cheese has to be Roquefort, because it's the fungus that has the anti-inflammatory effect.
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