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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: Do you have a family motto? |
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This is a strange post I know, but just out of interest...
As a boy my family had a very old fireguard, with the family crest carved intricatley over it. Around the edge the family motto was "Manners maketh man". ie.. a person should be judged to have worth on how well they behave, not how much money or how well they dress.
So does anyone else have a family motto" or is that just way too old fashioned? |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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| "ne illigitimi te carborundum" |
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canuckistan
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Joined: 17 Jun 2003
Location: Training future GS competitors.....
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| "ne illigitimi te carborundum" |
Hahahahaha! 
Can't tell you mine because that would give it away. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| canuckistan wrote: |
| Wangja wrote: |
| "ne illigitimi te carborundum" |
Hahahahaha!
Can't tell you mine because that would give it away. |
oooops! I knew I'd seen it here somewhere,. We've used it in the family for decades ..... we even had a heraldic device designed but never used. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| ne illigitimi te carborundum |
= "its not ok to use silicone?"?? |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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Much too proletariat to have a heraldic crest, but a mantra Mum used to repeat, with Dad nodding somberly everytime...
"Life wasn't meant to be easy..."
Good times.
PS
"ne illigitimi te carborundum"
"Don't let the bastards get you down?" |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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We have lots!
#1 (Taken from a humourous notepad) Don't Let The Turkeys Get You Down
#2 (Solemnly mispronounced by Baby Kermo and her sister) Love Your Chuthers
#3 (Because she is a tender-hearted lady) Be Nice To Mom
#4 (A sharp rebuke from Sister #2 to Mom as she ate her dinner with Sister #3 in her lap) Don't Get Crumbs On The Baby!
We even have a song! We just heard it on the CBC one day as we were driving (while Mom was out of town) and adopted it. It's got a haunting Irish melody, and words that send a chill down my spine when sung lustily:
O Lord above,
Send down your dove,
With beaks as sharp as razors.
To cut the throats
Of them there blokes
What sells bad beer to sailors. |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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| happeningthang wrote: |
"ne illigitimi te carborundum"
"Don't let the bastards get you down?" |
Very close: don't let the bastards grind you down. |
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HydePark
Joined: 23 Aug 2006
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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Me (to my family): Hey Everyone. What's the motto?
Family:
Nothing's wrong. What's the motto with you?
....I know, I know, absolutely terrible pun. But I couldn't resist!  |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: Do you have a family motto? |
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| Julius wrote: |
This is a strange post I know, but just out of interest...
As a boy my family had a very old fireguard, with the family crest carved intricatley over it. Around the edge the family motto was "Manners maketh man". ie.. a person should be judged to have worth on how well they behave, not how much money or how well they dress.
So does anyone else have a family motto" or is that just way too old fashioned? |
that's the same as my boyfriend's family's. i think it's pretty old-fashioned, though. |
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The Chewbacca Defense
Joined: 29 May 2004
Location: The ROK and a hard place
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject: .... |
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My family has a very old motto which has lasted generations.
"As soon as you're 18, you're out the door!" |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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A pretty simple one:
In Promptu |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| I'm of Scottish heritage. Our clan motto is: Audentes Fortuna Juvat - Fortune Favors tha Bold. Too bad I'm a sniveling coward. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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"right is right and wrong is wrong"
and a bunch of lesser quip directives, like, for instance, "nobody in, nobody out" (when the doors and windows are locked for the night) |
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SuperFly
Joined: 09 Jul 2003
Location: In the doghouse
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"MOLON LABE" (mo-lone lah-veh)
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When Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the huge Persian army and demanded that the Spartans lay down their arms. Leonidas told Xerxes "MOLON LABE",or "Come And Get Them."
"Our archers are so numerous,"said the envoy, "that the flight of their arrows darkens the sun."
"So much the better,"replied Dienekes, a Spartan warrior, "for we shall fight them in the shade." |
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