Has the world gone mad?

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What's the difference between a stick and a twig?

(actual question so don't go waiting for the punchline!!!)

Here's a joke... what's brown and sticky?

Flamesparrow, Caecillius in horto recumbit.

a stick?

Veni Vidi Vici - Julius Caesar

How rude HMB!!!!

(What'd ya say???)

And yes - A STICK!

caecillius is lying down in the gardern, he was the dh of metella!

She was sitting down, he was lying down, strewth you caoulf tell that Grumio was the bloody cook!

Oooh I thought he was lying down! Just wasn't too sure where.

Mr Higham would be so proud - I don't think he expected me to even retain that much!!!!

The canis was quite often lounging about near Metella as well.

The story started to get a bit far fetched when it moved to Bath though....

oooh dh is opening the wine -- gotta go

Ave atque vale

Mine was called Mr Dufty (!) honestly you can't make up crap like that can you? I can't remember them going to Bath, I do rermeber the son getting his first toga and versuvus erupting. But I only did it for two years. Was Bath in the 'Blue' booklets? I remember doing the green and orange ones

Yup - I think it was the blue book... we had to do it for 3 years

Vesuvius erupted, I think Metella and whatshisface died, but the son emigrated to Bath (as you do)... got to learn all about religion intergrating into England then.

I liked the learny bits, just not the language learning!

We had Mr Higham who was mad but lovely - he'd test you and not notice your textbook on your lap. And then Mr Jarvis who was also fairly insane, but more of a control freak way... he yelled at you if you yawned

Caecilius was almost always in horto, iirc.

Grumio always gave me the impression he didn't wash his hands too often...what's Latin for 'yuk'?

Look at the link I posted in another thread, flameshapprow its here!!!!!!!!!!!!

I found the books on line!

I'm lost!

We used Ecce ROmani. I'm sure the first sentences were 'in pictura est puella. puella est Cornelia.'

ooh ooh mumsnet is playing my tune, ask me about Caecilius go on go on anything (has to be pried off computer and put back in nice filing cabinet)

OMG!! Cambridge Latin!!!!! Grumio in horto sedet, canis in via, Quintus est filius, Metella in atrium recumbit, or something like that.

There was Caecillius, Metella, Quintus, Grumio, Clemens, and Cerberus (ets canis)

Grumio was always ebrius. And Metella had big hair.

How sad am I that I remember their names??????

Doesn't anyone remember Bregans the dopey Brit with the moustache and the attitude? A blow against the Roman oppressor, just like Star Wars.

Bregens rings a bell......

I have found some of the books upstairs where I work - (it used to be a grammer school)

shall I get them?

Yes, please. I am sure I have an old one kicking about somewhere too. I couldnt give it back to school, the cat threw up on it.

Found book 2b. Its blue with a cat on the front......

Its tyhe one where they are in Alexandria. I much prefered the orange one with Caecillius et al though

Its got Barbillus in it

have the orange ones

first one unit 1 stage i

caecilius

Grumio est coquus

the pictures are hilarious

cerberus - what a mad looking dog