GLORIA!thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 6:42pm I don't know. What do you call a Ford van that's always breaking down?
Jonathan
GLORIA!thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 6:42pm I don't know. What do you call a Ford van that's always breaking down?
thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 5:35pm When I see a vehicle marked HORSES IN TRANSIT I have been known to remark "That's not a transit." (Cries of "frequently!")
Presumably something to do with this song:
Sic transit gloria mundi.Jdsk wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 6:43pmGLORIA!thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 6:42pm I don't know. What do you call a Ford van that's always breaking down?
Jonathan
Sic becomes sick, thus sick transit Gloria..thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 9:29pm Even though I understand the Latin, which is a phrase I often use when has-beens are on "celebrity" programmes, GLORIA in the context is over my head. It might as well be in excelsis deo.
Well, I needed it explained but it's still funny.Mike Sales wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 9:31pmSic becomes sick, thus sick transit Gloria..thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 9:29pm Even though I understand the Latin, which is a phrase I often use when has-beens are on "celebrity" programmes, GLORIA in the context is over my head. It might as well be in excelsis deo.
Explaining always kills a joke.
Right, I see. I might - and only might - have got there sooner without the mundi first time. Using this Billy Bunter Latin translation, I was trying to work out where "Monday" might fit in with a broken-down van.Mike Sales wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 9:31pmSic becomes sick, thus sick transit Gloria..thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 9:29pm Even though I understand the Latin, which is a phrase I often use when has-beens are on "celebrity" programmes, GLORIA in the context is over my head. It might as well be in excelsis deo.
Explaining always kills a joke.
And in our family.
Precisely.Mike Sales wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 9:31pmSic becomes sick, thus sick transit Gloria..thirdcrank wrote: ↑18 Oct 2021, 9:29pm Even though I understand the Latin, which is a phrase I often use when has-beens are on "celebrity" programmes, GLORIA in the context is over my head. It might as well be in excelsis deo.
'Fourgon conclusion' sprung to mind - but I'm not sure that really works ....?
Not what I had in mind, but that had never occurred to me before.