Trivia

[Buster]

I like how you refer to me in the third person..



Anyway...

How or where does the concept of a 12 person Jury come from?

 

[PessOptimist]

So that's what that was all about when I was leaving those establishments on Field's Ave. I only visited that location on a brief TDY back in "the day". Just long enough to find out everything I had heard was true.

I'm not going to play, I'll just watch and enjoy Buster.:laugh:

 

[Buster]

So that's what that was all about when I was leaving those establishments on Field's Ave. I only visited that location on a brief TDY back in "the day". Just long enough to find out everything I had heard was true.

I'm not going to play, I'll just watch and enjoy Buster.:laugh:

Seriously..you can if you want.ya know I was just kidding

 

[PessOptimist]

Seriously..you can if you want.ya know I was just kidding

I know.

 

[Scout333]

How or where does the concept of a 12 person Jury come from?[/SIZE]

Seems that it came from early England, maybe 13th or 14th century. 12 men, good and true, were appointed for each village to rule on local issues?

 

[Buster]

Seems that it came from early England, maybe 13th or 14th century. 12 men, good and true, were appointed for each village to rule on local issues?

Close...
It was a Welsh King that started it, but that was not the reason.

 

[wvango]

Biblical account of Jesus’ 12 apostles. A human tribunals should be composed of a king (judge) and 12 wise men.

 

[Buster]

Biblical account of Jesus’ 12 apostles. A human tribunals should be composed of a king (judge) and 12 wise men.

Excellent and correct..

...your turn

 

[Cactus]

This or the "Black Humor" thread looked like the most appropriate place to post this. Let me know if I'm wrong, wont you?

Anybody in the mood for some BT's Big Words? Then try these. I'll start off with 10 -- more to come if you like them.

Do you recognize these well known adages?
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1. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

2. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

3. Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

4. Neophite's serendipity.

5. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

6. Lollipop natality is periodic with an interval of 0.000694 day.

7. Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

8. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

9. Sanitation abuts deity.

10. It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

 

[burrocrat]

1 all that glitters is not gold
2 beggars can't be choosers
3 dead men tell no tales
4 beginner's luck
5 a rolling stone gathers no moss
6 there's a sucker born every minute
7 birds of a feather flock together
8 beauty is only skin deep
9 cleanliness is next to godliness
10 there's no use crying over spilt milk

let's try some with cuss words next, that's my specialty.

 

[Cactus]

let's try some with cuss words next, that's my specialty.

I'm afraid I don't have any of those. Besides, as quickly as you got the first 10, you don't need it any easier.

Here are the next 10:

11. Buffoons are not collocated with personal wealth for any great length of time.

12. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

13. The stylus is more potent than the rapier.

14. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

15. Surveillance should precede saltation.

16. Construction of Italy's capitol city required more than one axial revolution.

17. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

18. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow.

19. Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles.

20. Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

 

[Cactus]

I stand corrected. I do have one. All this started in high school many decades ago when brilliant young lass politely imformed me that: "I am overbrimming with waste." :laugh:

 

[burrocrat]

a fool and his money are soon parted
spare the rod save the child
the pen is mightier than the sword
you can't teach an old dog new tricks
look before you leap
rome wasn't built in a day
he who laughs last laughs best
all work and no play makes jack a dull boy
those who love in glass houses should draw the shades
where there's smoke there's fire

 

[burrocrat]

I stand corrected. I do have one. All this started in high school many decades ago when brilliant young lass politely imformed me that: "I am overbrimming with waste." :laugh:

the important question is did she say yes when you asked for her hand?

 

[Cactus]

Nothing like that I'm afraid. My father PCSed to Germany the following year and I lost track of her. The Army moved you around a lot back then. That slowed down after Viet Nam if for no other reason than they could no longer afford it. Something we need to relearn today.

You're doing real well on these adages. I like your take on the answers. Here are the next crop of 10.

21. The lack of physical discomfort will not produce greater quantities.

22. A single repair effort, if conducted with sufficient promptness, eliminates the necessity of a ninefold repair.

23. Upon initial failure, repeatedly continue the attempt.

24. It is unadvisable to attempt an equestrian substitutionary maneuver while located in a moving hydrous body equidistant from terra firma.

25. Refrain from causing the demise of the auriferously ovicular waterfowl.

26. While located in the capital city of Italy, conduct yourself commensurate with native behavior.

27. Perform those actions upon people that you wish reciprocated.

28. One is able to occasionally lead astray certain individuals, but it is not possible to consistently mislead the entire populace.

29. Continued repitition eventually leads to a state containing no error.

30. Enable members of canis domesticus that are in a somnus state to continue in an inactive, prone position.

 

[wvango]

Just my guesses...Makes ya think..

21. No Pain No Gain.
22. A stitch in time saves nine.
23. If at first you don’t succeed, try.. try again.
24. ??
25. Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
26. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
27. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
28. You can fool some people some times but you cant fool all the people all the time.
29. Practice makes perfect.
30. Let a sleeping dog lie.

 

[burrocrat]

24 don't switch horses midstream

 

[Cactus]

Very good. Looks like it's time for some more.

31. It is impossible to prepare a breakfast melenge without destroying the outer casings of more than one ovum.

32. Enumeration of one's gallus gallus prior to their emergence from the ovicular encasings is strongly discuraged.

33. A fruit of the genus pyrus, consumed every 24 hours, repels the medical professional.

34. Flee the coquinus area if unable to endure the product of exothermic reactions.

35. It is unwise to locate the entirety of your ova in a singular woven-reed container.

36. The method of effecting a male homonid's cardiac organ is to appeal to his digestive tract.

37. The pecuniary draft has been submitted to the postal authorities for conveyance.

38. It is impossible to contemporaneously possess your baked good and consume it.

39. Improved acquaintence engenders increased animosity.

40. Separation intensifies the cardium's doting.

 

[sstasel]

31. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs
32. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched
33. An apple a day keeps the doctor away
34. If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen
35. Don't put all your eggs in one basket
36. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
37. The check is in the mail
38. You can't have your cake and eat it too
39. Familiarity breeds contempt
40. Absence makes the heart grow fonder

 

[Cactus]

Back by popular demand, it's the next round of BT's Big Words. Take it easy on these. I only have 66 of them obfuscated. After that I have to hit my big list of unconverted adages to come up with some more. It can take several iterations to come up with something that sounds natural (well for Birchtree anyways) and isn't just a word for word substitution.

41. Elevate yourself by applying upward momentum to the grasping apparati of your own footwear.

42. Without perambulating a minimum of 5,280 feet in the native American footwear belonging to another hominid, you are incapable of mentally grasping the odiferousness.

43. Neither victory nor defeat are of great importance, but rather the conditions under which the endeavor was conducted.

44. Whatever benefits the large female waterfowl, also benefits her male counterpart.

45. If unable to flagellate others successfully, ally yourself with them.

46. It is not possible to transform a female swine's otic appendage into a container made from caterpillar-extruded monofilament.

47. Although it is possible to guide an equestrian animal to fluid refreshment, there are no means to coerce it to partake.

48. A small quantity of sucrose ameliorates ingestion of pharmaceuticals.

49. Expired piscines and houseguests share the property of olfactory unpleasantness after 72 hours.

50. Despite its extreme abased simplicity, no other abode compares favorably to one's domicile.