Having enjoyed my Christmas pudding and mince pies, liberally smothered in Advocaat, I still have a considerable amount left in the bottle, so today I decided to pour some over my cherry crumble and custard; now have a nice warm glow inside.

The bottle says use within 6 months so methinks fortified custard on variuos fruits and puddings two or three times a week for a few weeks should see to that.

Haec

Hoc

I've promised myself tomorrow night the Southern Comfort gets a pasting which normally means the air guitar makes an appearance at some point

Hunc

Uh-oh. I can see a few Latin scholars coming out of the woodwork!

Quote from: chrism on December 27, 2018, 08:26:21 PM
Hoc

Another classics scholar !

Nick
(Latin O level 1967 - failed!)

yes, but don,t put too much advocat on or the result [genitively speaking] could huius, huius, huius!

Quote from: Newportnobby on December 27, 2018, 09:45:01 PM
I've promised myself tomorrow night the Southern Comfort gets a pasting which normally means the air guitar makes an appearance at some point

And the problem with that, subject to headphones/volume/proximity of neighbours is Pedicabo omnia

Steady on chaps - thought this was a family forum!

Quote from: Railwaygun on December 28, 2018, 10:03:23 AM

Quote from: chrism on December 27, 2018, 08:26:21 PM
Hoc

Another classics scholar !

Nick
(Latin O level 1967 - failed!)

1967 Latin exam must have been hard. I failed mine then.

If memory serves correctly, I underwent three years of Latin at school, a comprehensive which was still clinging onto delusions of a more genteel grammar school/11+ past in the early 1980s, anyway a while back I came across an old textbook I'd somehow kept from that time (part of a series of thin volumes in orange covers, if anyone remembers them), anyway my brain has obviously better things to do with any mental storage space occupied by that deceased language and even after looking at the book I could remember literally nothing from it.

Quod erat demonstrandum?

(Grade C in 1980 - complete fluke!)

Semper in excreta.

et tu, caudex?

(that is the one phrase I think I remember, though I might have got it wrong and it's supposed to be in the ablative provocative case or something - tragically I never made it to Latinia, so never had a chance to use all those useful phrases)