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Posted by Spot 2006-10-19 10:40|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 'Tis a feature, not a bug.

Fred liked it - I believe it was xbalanke who used it in a comment the other day and *snarf* !

Posted by .com 2006-10-19 11:00|| 2006-10-19 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Whew! I saw it first when I opened the new IE7 and thought it might be a moonbat hack. I've always thought the "oderint dum metuant" quote was more RB style;-)

Fred - delete at will!

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-10-19 11:17|| 2006-10-19 11:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I've also noticed the "54-40 or flight" is back, though I still don't know what it means. What's next, "Remember the Maine!"?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-19 11:34|| 2006-10-19 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Tippecanoe and Tyler, too!

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-10-19 11:37|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-10-19 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Pardon my ignorance of Latin--actually, blame my high school--but what's the translation of oderint dum metuant?

Posted by Mike 2006-10-19 11:38|| 2006-10-19 11:38|| Front Page Top

#6 "54-40 or fight" is a reference to a dispute with the British over the northern boundary of Maine, back in the 1820s or so.

Posted by Mike 2006-10-19 11:39|| 2006-10-19 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, since you answered me, let me reciprocate with the best of my limited abilities... AFAIK, oderint dum metuant means something like "let them despise me/us, as long as they fear me/us".

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-19 11:41|| 2006-10-19 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Loose translation froma Roman Poet Lucius Accius (often mistattributed to Caligula):

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-10-19 11:55|| 2006-10-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually, it's in reference to the Oregon territory. 54°40' is the southern boundary of Alaska, so if the US got Oregon all the way there, it would be contiguous. The other way, which the Brits claimed, was the California border. Eventually, they just extended the 49° line from Montana west.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-10-19 13:06|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-10-19 13:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Man, looks like I stepped in it this time.

I've been accused of trolling when I forgot a /sarc tag, but never hacking. Would that be a promotion or a demotion?

Posted by xbalanke 2006-10-19 13:13|| 2006-10-19 13:13|| Front Page Top

#11 Jackal, thanks for the correction. I knew there was also a border dispute over Maine, and for some reason I conflated the two.

Posted by Mike 2006-10-19 13:54|| 2006-10-19 13:54|| Front Page Top

#12 And, Mike, may I say that a fight over Maine is no small potatoes.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-10-19 16:23|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2006-10-19 16:23|| Front Page Top

#13 Of course not. Maine is, after all, the site of the mission-critical all-important Strategic Lobster Reserve.

Posted by Mike 2006-10-19 16:43|| 2006-10-19 16:43|| Front Page Top

#14 Ah yes..the all important SLR. I'm for tapping the reserve right now. I'll bring the corn and drawn butter....yum

Posted by Warthog 2006-10-19 17:10|| 2006-10-19 17:10|| Front Page Top

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