| Date | Coach | Message |
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| 12/20 | hoosierchap | Don't all of you remark on our lone conference victory at once. Let's let it soak in. |
| 12/20 | hoosierchap | Is there a Cliff notes version of your posts coach? |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | de duobus malis minus est semper eligendum |
| 12/20 | bludluciano | gl tomorrow coachenstein |
| 12/20 | bludluciano | Ringraziarla molto. Finché lei comincia a vincere, per favore il ritornello da tentare di essere così intelligente. La vediamo l'intelligenza nel suo gioco di squadra! how about in Italian! |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | You see, guys, we've put the lady to sleep. I am mortified. As penance for offending Dawg and the Blind Man and others and for boring Luciano all my posts in this forum for the rest of this season shall be in Latin. That way all non-classists can ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ...ignore me simply by not translating them. When I return (in Enlglish) next season I shall be properly humble and contrite and assume the airs proper to the Era of the Common Man. ave atque vale |
| 12/20 | bludluciano | zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | Mind you, I did not say I am not a snob, arrogant and egotistical (though not pedantic) but that is because I was born with the arrogant, snobish, egotitical genes, not because I studied Latin in school. I was defending poor old, put upon, ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ...unfashionable Latin, not myself. We classists often fall back on our schoolboy vernacular, unconsciously, automatically (It's our way of saying "Dude, that sucks!") and Dawg's "common man" sometimes feels threatened by it. ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ... But we don't mean anything by it; it's just our manner. We understand everyone has not had our advantages, not had our exposure to the beauty, grandeur, and uplift of Latin literature. More's the pity; but that does not mean we disrespect The ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ...Common Man. Afterall, I own a copy of "Tom Joad." I don't like it but I bought it (full retail price), listened to it and have it in my album collection. |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | Springsteen lost my respect (if I ever had any) when he admitted that he based his album "Tom Joad" on the movie version of "The Grapes of Wrath," that he'd never read Steinbeck's novel. If you're trying to convert the masses ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ...over to your viewpoint of a socialist utopia seems to me you could at least muster up the artistic integrity to read the book - go to the source - rather than rely on the Hollywood version. Springsteen also supports Clinton (unsurprisingly). ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ...He's one of the lastest in a long line of "prolitarian artists" (including Steinbeck); but prolitarian art doesn't have much of a shelf life. |
| 12/20 | colorblind79 | you show yourself a snob by claiming that Bruce Springsteen isn't an artist. Do you feel the same way about Hemingway and Salinger because they used the vernacular of their times? Or did you need to study someone in a class during your liberal arts ... |
| 12/20 | colorblind79 | ...education for them to gain traction as a serious source of culture? |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | Why is it that those not blessed with a classic liberal arts education - including the study of Latin and Latin literature - automatically assume we classically educated persons to be arrogant, pedantic and egotistical? As it happens the blind ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ...man's claim that Bruce Springteen's "art" is something New Jersey can be proud of invited "de gustibus non es disputatem" as an apt response. You should not leap to the conclusion that I am flauting my knowledge or showing ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ...off. It's really just an unthinking, kneejerk thing with us classists (There's no joke like a Latin joke.) and should be viewed as a compliment to our audience; we show you the respect to assume you will get a nuanced joke (except, of course, ... |
| 12/20 | coachenstein | ... for those of you from New Jersey and Yale). Be kind to Latin scholars. We are getting thin on the ground and, though we often think in Latin, we have feelings too. Cherish us while you still have us. |
| 12/20 | 1OldDawg | In select circles I gain immense pleasure to talk the talk of the common man. It seems to boost the intellectuals fragile egos as well as feed their misguided sense of superiority. All rather amusing really. |