Cartagena, Colombia (not Columbia) is probably worth a look-see by your cousin, although to date I have not been there either.
Cartagena, Colombia (not Columbia) is probably worth a look-see by your cousin, although to date I have not been there either.
Green Berretts and SEALs tell me it rocks.
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Thank you, Simon. I am still trying to figure out how to broach this subject with him without coming across as an old, fuddy duddy aunt. Telling him to go to Columbia instead of Belize could be the answer 🙂
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Would recommend you don’t mispell it again if you write to him about this.
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Ok 🙂
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Colombia. Got it. Thank you 🙂
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He is much younger than I am. So much so, that I really don’t have much or any influence. But I will try 🙂
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You were in the right hemisphere, JaC, “Columbia” – the gem of the ocean – used to refer to the U.S. of A. 🙂 (I think we should bring back poor cancelled Columbus, don’t you?)
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Yes, thank you, Nanda 🙂
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Hail, Columbia, the gem of the ocean!
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Love it 🙂
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Me, too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wIDXclKtGQ
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Tell that kool kat it is US Navy SEAL tested and approved.
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Quito, Ecuador was USCG, USMC & USN rode hard and put away wet back in the day.
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I will, thank you 🙂 And sorry I didn’t catch the warning in the OP: you warned us about mis spelling Colombia 🙂
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Funny how that works.
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This is Top Secret obvs but we g0t into at least 1 bar brawl and 1 street fight, both in Guayaquil.
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I love Top Secret stuff 🙂
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It is pr0bably passed the statute of limitations by now. 20+ years ag. Tempus Fugit
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tem·pus fu·git
/ˌtempəs ˈfyo͞ojit/
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exclamation
time flies (used to draw attention to the rapid passage of time).
“Tempus fugit! It seems no time since we were cursing the long, dark winter evenings—now here we are in flaming June”
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I don’t believe the Greeks were terribly repressed in the sexual arena either.
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“Flaming June” in more ways than one…
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“Tempus Fugit”
It surely does, they say, especially when you’re having fun….
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Oh and yes, there will be Latin and nitnoi Greek.
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TOP DEFINITION
Nitnoy
“A little bit” – from Thai “Nit Noi”. Some soldiers brought back this word from Thailand during the Vietnam War, while on R&R.
I only like that girl nitnoy.
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Where and why will there be Latin and Greek? 🙂
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In Hoc Signo Vinces
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“In Hoc Signo Vinces”
By/Under this Sign [a battle ensign bearing a Cross], you will conquer, (a vision given to Constantine) that we here believe to be valid in retaking American thought and culture, yes? (Blessed Sunday, ST!)
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…because I have it on g00d auth0rity that Jesus Cristo Hisself spoke these languages as well as KJV.
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Amen 🙂
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sum
es
est
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For those who are wondering, Simon is speaking Latin now, but I don’t know what he is saying 🙂
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gmf 2 musch
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“To be””, or not “to be”?, that is the question…
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Lol 🙂 Thank you for helping to translate, Nanda 🙂
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T0 be 0r n0t t0 be is the answer, but I can not remember the question.
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sumus, estis, sunt
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No clue. I took Latin, but never learned it 🙂
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I had freshmen willing to use all their charms to bribe me to bump up their grades. I was weak. May the Lord f0rgive me. Amen krap
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Lol 🙂 Sister Rita Rafferty never had to deal with that, and if she had caught you, OMG. There would have been hell to pay. You didn’t mess with Riff Raff, Lol 🙂
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The temptation was simply unresistible. You would have understood had you been in my p0siti0n.
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I am not judging you, Simon, I am just describing Sister Rita 🙂
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I’m guessing Sister Rita did not have many freshmen and sophomore girls trying to give her their bodies to get from a D to a C in Latin 101.
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LOL. 🙂 All these years later, I am still afraid of her. I knew a lot of nuns, but wow, she was the nun to end all nuns.
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I once heard someone say of LBJ, “He is dead, and people are still afraid of him.” That is how some of us feel about Riff Raff.
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…continued….
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I took a year of Latin my first year of high school. It was taught by Sister Rita Rafferty. We used to call her, Riff Raff. Good times 🙂
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“May the Lord f0rgive me. Amen krap”
‘Ask, and you shall receive.’ (I would venture to say that He has, and does, indeed.)
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It was a long time ago and times have changed.
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Bless you, Simon 🙂
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Sounds like forgiveness of self/acceptance of His forgiveness is present, to this Chaps.
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Bless you, Nanda 🙂
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Thank you, JaC, and back atcha!
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🙂
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So let it be written. So let it be done.
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Amen. Deo gratias.
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De·o gra·ti·as
/ˌdāō ˈɡrätsēəs/
Learn to pronounce
exclamation
thanks be to God.
“Thank you so much, Jeremy. Deo Gratias!”
I knew this one, but am sharing the definition for those who don’t 🙂
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