On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:09:33PM +1000, tuxta2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Carlo Sogono wrote:
> >I studied Latin for 4 years in an old-school Catholic institution but
> >had to lookup what transverso meant as my vocabulary is very rusty...
> >The literal translation is actually "not from across but downwards".
> >
> >That's a bit morbid though.
> >
> >
> >Michael Lake wrote:
> >>Alex White wrote:
> >>>--
> >>>Non ex transverso sed deorsum
> >>
> >>I didn't know what the Latin meant so I looked it up.
> >>
> >>"Latin for 'down not across'. The official motto of sysadmins
> >>everywhere."
> >>
> >> > Down, not across
> >> >
> >> > The mantra and/or motto of the BOFH tribe, as well as suicidally
> >>depressed
> >> > individuals everywhere. The phrase refers to how one should apply
> >>a razorblade to
> >> > one's wrist to achieve best results. In this case, Down, not
> >>across refers to
> >> > slicing parallel to your wrist as to more fully evacuate blood
> >>from the body.
> >> > Exercising the blade perpendicular to the wrist will take longer
> >>to die from, and
> >> > also tends to sever important tendons, making it very hard to
> >>grasp the razor.
> >>
> >>Nice :-)
> >>
> >
> I thought it was only legal to discuss methods of suicide under
> parliamentary privilege.
>
> Any politicians among us?
You talk like one, so you must be one ;-)
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