Vatican endorses TVR

[squirrelz]

Well, having returned from my brief trip to Rome, I can report that the Vatican appears to have decided to bless TVR :



OK so it was done several hundred years before TVR existed, and a Roman 'V' is actually a 'U', but it made me
chuckle when I saw it....

If anyone wants to check it out, its in the Signature room.

[plotloss]

Top class!

Blessed is the V8 burble...

Matt.

[joospeed]

not so fast mr squirrely fella, isn't a latin V actually a W? .. so aren't they blessing tom walkinshaw's racing outfit instead? teehee .. seem to remember our latin book was "civis romanus" pronounced "keewiss". and anyway non est facile navigare etiam mense quintili... should mean something (i hope, was never very good at latin) to latin speaking tvr owners caught in a rainstorm.

[CleG]

Did u have a good time then, my nut munching and tree climbing friend?

[squirrelz]

Top-didley-tastic.
Relieved the Romans of much wine, beer , and pizza.
Even had a nice couple of pints of Guinness

- BTW Joolz, theres a difference between pronunciation and writing. eg Romanus is written Romanvs on the walls, So the inscrption says "Numi ne, Affla tur" I think, any chance of a translation of that? We think it's something to do with the love of money.....

>> Edited by squirrelz on Wednesday 21st August 10:15

[dan]

ROMANS THEY GO THE HOUSE!!!

[markh]

Nice one centurian

[shamus1972]

Now write it out a hundred times

[joospeed]

I think it means "stop drinking our guiness and eating our pizza"

[squirrelz]

Good job they don't speak latin in Chesterfield then!

[nubbin]

It means "breathed upon by god" or "breathed by the divine will of god"

>> Edited by nubbin on Thursday 22 August 14:20

[Edt]

as do the French...



Ed

[wedg1e]

.... so who remembers

Caesar ad sum iam forte
Brutus et erat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Brutus sic in at

?

I have a feeling I'll be the only old git....

And doesn't 'Per ardua ad astra' mean 'Vauxhalls give you grief'?
Whilst 'Sic transit gloria mundi' means that some girl threw up in a van after a party on Sunday. I think...

;-)


Ian
Old git

[wedg1e]

Just realised.... does that excerpt from the Bayeaux tapestry say something about taking the corpse of King Edward to Eccles...?!

Ian

[tvradict]

quote:
'Per ardua ad astra'

Motto of the RAF something along the lines of

Reach for the skies
or
Protecting the skies
or some sh*t like that

However

The motto of my school was 'Ad Astra'

and I 'ad (an) astra