Latin Lover (of Nomenclature) Prints

Tragedy Strikes at the Linnaean Society Picnic

Solicitor speaks legal jargon and has a translator who tells client: 'You haven't a hope!'

"There's only one 'L' in colosseum."

Mea Maxima Cuppa

Zoo. Diet Clinic. Hey everybody --- There's no longer an 800-pound gorilla in the room!

I think you'll find that I'm easily encouraged. For instance, the fact that the two exclamation points above your head are tempered by one question mark gives me great hope. !?!

'My real name is Bellis Perennis, but you can call me Daisy!'

"Carpe pizza"

"This city is becoming unlivable."

"Hail, Caesar! The barbarians have been beaten back, and Rome is still Numero Uno."

Harmon Silas, calculating the thousand words his picture is worth, wonders what do do with contractions.

'Did anyone tell her we're from another planet?'

'Mum, I don't care what these nasty kids say about my brothers Romulus and Remus being adopted: I love them all the same...'

"Not that kind of hare, Rapunzel!"

'Oh great, now I have to render unto Caesar, too.'

'Turn right at the Robinia pseudoacacia, pass the garden with the salvia officinalis, cross the road when you see the stranvaesia davidinia and the pub is on the left!'

The tulip knew it was in trouble when called by its scientific name.

'Yes, sure, certainly, you bet, of course, yeah, right, yep....'

"We don't have knock-knock jokes on Christmas."

'This may be the first day of the rest of my life, but I've decided to wait for the second day.'

It was a match made in heaven.

"Make up you mind - do you love me completely or love me to bits?"

'Virus?' - 'Yes, it's a Latin word we doctors use, meaning I haven't got a clue..'

Carpe diem

'Your efforts, and the little Latin quotes you drop into your email, have not gone unrecognized.'

'Consummatum est.'

Dance Studio: Ballroom, Latin, Line Dancing, Rain Dancing

"You just carpe, carpe, carpe."

Veni, Vidi, Vici, Mani, Pedi.

'What? This is still a dead language, right?'

'Wow Fred! The scientists that caught you called you 'Carcharodon Carcharias'... Wait till I tell the others...'

"And remember–no more subjunctives where the correct mood is indicative."

I love Classics.

Belgium Battle.

"There's actually nothing wrong with you but I can write out something in Latin to show your boss."