--- On Thu, 2/4/09, Ravi Bellur <rav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Ravi Bellur <rav...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Manning the barricades
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Thursday, 2 April, 2009, 3:35 PM
> > Sic transit gloria mundi.
>
> It means "so passes the world's glory" --
>
> sic = "so" as in "so is it always for tyrants" which John
> Wilkes Booth said
> before he shot Abraham Lincoln (Sic semper tyrannus).
>
> transit = passes or goes (obviously they based the Latin
> word on our English
> word, before inventing their time machine to go back 2500
> years)
>
> gloria = glory -- like the U2 song -- or glory to God in
> the highest (Gloria
> in excelcious Dieu)... forgive all spelling errors which
> are cleverly
> intentional as sublime satire... yeah... right... :-) --
> much like Bono must
> be short for Bonobashi :-)
>
> mundi = like "spiritus mundi" from the opening track of
> Synchronicity by the
> Police
>
> Like many things, popular music has the answers. :-)
Gloria in excelsis Deo, you Norman-French de Cock's tail (and that's not ad
hominem, merely ad capitam).
Or lower down, if those dimwits deciphering onus vs. anus would just get on
with it.
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