Tales of True Adventure for Rugged Men Not Unlike Yourself
The top ten Scottish bands, in order, are these:
1. The Fratellis
2. The Jesus and Mary Chain
3. The View
4. Teenage Fanclub
5. The Vaselines
6. Belle & Sebastian
7. Camera Obscura
8. Nazareth
9. Franz Ferdinand
10. Aztec Camera
Big Country is disqualified because their best song has their own name in it.
Honorable mention to Bay City Rollers because I grew up in the 70’s, and Jethro Tull because Ian Anderson is a Scot.
I will now listen to your complaints about this stupid list.
Football season is over of course, but you can use these for any sport. It’s not like Latin had a real equivalent for “touchdown” anyway.
Sequimini, sequimini, facite ut pilam relinquat!
Pursue them, pursue them, make them relinquish the ball!
Illos repellite, expellite, compellite ad fugiendum!
Repel them, expel them, compel them to retreat!
Utinam vincamus!
Oh, would that we would score!
Volebamus atque volemus pilam trans metas deponi!
We have been wanting and shall continue to want a touchdown!
Those are from Latin For All Occasions, by Henry Beard, a Classics major who went on to co-found National Lampoon. For years people gave me books like that.
Here’s a bonus (under “LATIN AT THE AIRPORT”) that might come in handy as we enter the imperial era:
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
Stand aside, plebeians! I am on imperial business!
On the one hand, Sir Paul is still out there doing it on his terms, at almost 83 years old!
On the other … yeesh …
A propos of nothing.
Favorite YouTube comment …
Clearly, the stairway to stardom wasn’t built to code.
Runner up …
Escalator to obscurity.
Yes, please.
Also I want the European woman who introduces the song to follow me around and narrate my various exploits.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered several weeks ago.
Between 100 to 300 feet across, it has something like a 1.5% chance of striking earth in 2032. Anything larger than 150 feet with a 1% chance of impact gets put on the watch list of the International Asteroid Warning Network.
An asteroid that size could easily cause something as significant as the Tunguska Event in Siberia in 1908, estimated at 1000X the explosive force of the Hiroshima bomb.
And still not remotely close to the Chicxulub impactor at the end of the Cretaceous. When it struck the Yucatan, the 10 – 15 kilometer meteor caused a rim of mountains higher than the Himalayas to form around the impact zone, blasted debris that achieved escape velocity and left the atmosphere, and brought instantaneous extinction as far away as what is now North Dakota and New Jersey.
NASA (funding pending) and Jet Propulsion Labs, among others, will follow YR4’s progress. If they upgrade this current threat, presumably some half-baked plan ensues to mitigate damage. I have personally volunteered Makerbot – the youngest, spryest, least whiny bastard – to lead Space Force on that dangerous mission.