View Poll Results: What color should I paint my car?
Deep Metallic Blue
29
34.12%
Deep Metallic Green
12
14.12%
"Copperhead"
9
10.59%
Kameleon color shift
1
1.18%
"Clockwork Orange"
8
9.41%
Other
22
25.88%
Brown, Very Brown
4
4.71%
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What color should I paint my car?
#47
We painted ours Ferrari "Fly Yellow", an extremely expensive paint done by guys that were reasonable... total cost to go from black under $4,000!
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#49
Originally Posted by Rob Roy
.......Ken
1980 928 Euro 5-speed
ILLEGITIMUS NON CARBORUNDUM:
1980 928 Euro 5-speed
ILLEGITIMUS NON CARBORUNDUM:
"Illegitimis non carborundum"
by Mark Israel
Yes, this means "Don't let the bastards grind you down", but it
is not real Latin; it is a pseudo-Latin joke. "Carborundum" is a trademark for a very hard substance composed of silicon carbide, used in grinding. (The name "Carborundum" is a blend of "carbon" and "corundum". "Corundum" denotes aluminium oxide, and comes to English from Tamil kuruntam; it is related to Sanskrit kuruvinda = "ruby".) "The "-ndum" ending suggests the
Latin gerundive, which is used to express desirability of the activity denoted by the verb, as in Nil desperandum = "nothing to be despaired of"; addendum = "(thing) fit to be added"; corrigendum = "(thing) fit to be corrected"; and the name Amanda, from amanda = "fit to be loved"). Illegitimis is the dative plural of illegitimus = "illegitimate"; the gerundive in Latin correctly takes the dative to
denote the agent. Illegitimus could conceivably mean "bastard" in
Latin, but was not the usual word for it: Follett World-Wide Latin
Dictionary (Follett, 1967) gives nothus homo for bastard of known
father, and spurius for bastard of unknown father.
The phrase seems to have originated with British army
intelligence early in World War II. It was popularized when U.S.
general Joseph W. "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (1883-1946) adopted it as
his motto. Various variant forms are in circulation.
#50
Heinrich,
I did aboout 6 years of Latin at school, and I can still decline a verb (or is it conjugate) amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatus, amant. That is about all I remember.
The Illegitimus Non Carborundum is often jokingly referred to as the "unofficial"Scottish motto
I did aboout 6 years of Latin at school, and I can still decline a verb (or is it conjugate) amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatus, amant. That is about all I remember.
The Illegitimus Non Carborundum is often jokingly referred to as the "unofficial"Scottish motto
#52
Its Ferrari Fly Yellow
I had a past 928 in a similar yellow (I bought it that way), and like the way frerrari's looked. You got to be careful with yellow, because there's some not so good shades.. Ford in their infinite wisdon called the escape yellow... Shool Bus Yellow.... that will entice you to buy that car!
Anyhow I liked the ferrari's so we opted to not take a chance and order that paint.
Anyhow I liked the ferrari's so we opted to not take a chance and order that paint.
#53
AHA! Ave Frater ... non scit alienos hic fierunt Lingua Latina dicere posuerunt!! OK that was off the top, I am sure true scholars would rip me apart now. Been some years.
Heinrich
Heinrich