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Huffington Post: Roman?

Oh no, the Huffington Post is using a late-90s software that writes its e-mail text in Latin! We knew this all along — they have been plagiarizing Augustus Caesar, the first black president (according to Toni Morrison). Thank you to 900 people who forwarded this! Who knew that so many people subscribed to the Huffington Post’s “Off The Bus” newsletter?


5:10 PM on Wed August 6 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. Neilist says at 5:16 pm, August 6th, 2008

    O mores! O tempora!

    Sorry. That just slipped out.

    I haven’t recovered from Carla’s BOOTS

  2. Quacker says at 5:16 pm, August 6th, 2008

    .kcud eht dias kcauq, kcauq, kcauq, kcauQ

  3. Wagamuffin says at 5:17 pm, August 6th, 2008

    I just got the grovelling follow-up apology to the original e-mail.

    It’s all greek to me.

  4. The Real JR Revisted says at 5:17 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Mamma say mamma sah moomakusah.

  5. Quacker says at 5:18 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Quacker:
    That’s DUCK LATIN!

  6. sanantonerose says at 5:19 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Mons Vesuvius est eruptat!

    And something about the girl looking at the long, hard road. La puella….durum viam…something… uhhhhhhh….

    I need a hall pass for the latrina!

  7. SwanSwanH says at 5:20 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Thanks, Jillian York, for that insightful “view from a broad.”

    (Actually, they’re plagiarizing Cicero, the first black Toni Morrison.)

  8. WaldoJeffersHead says at 5:20 pm, August 6th, 2008

    The senatorial races in Rome are pretty cutthroat.

  9. Neilist says at 5:20 pm, August 6th, 2008

    . . . I actually can remember the first time I saw that, and tried to translate it.

    Despite the six years of Hic/Haec/Hocing it, it kept coming out as gibberish.

    Which it is.

    Sort of like one of President Bush’s press conferences processed through the WayBack Machine to 45 B.C. . . . .

  10. Lamb Cannon says at 5:26 pm, August 6th, 2008

    i theenk this goes back to the early days of digital typesetting… just some fake junk they use to fill up pages that don’t require actual content… pictures of someone reading an ersatz newspaper in an ad…

    in the bad old days of paste-up we had

    “running amuck with Pearl S. Buck/is hard to beat in the Malay heat.”

    you get the idea, sorry if this is old news

  11. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 5:27 pm, August 6th, 2008

    I used to do a bit of latin in my time… but I can control it. Never more than one, maybe two translations a week.

    Now in school I was taught marijuana…

  12. kellygrrrl says at 5:28 pm, August 6th, 2008

    as a longtime HP junkie, due to recent, HyperModSquad, many of us have taken to Pig Latin and Morse Code — all the rage

  13. Pop Socket says at 5:28 pm, August 6th, 2008

    I used to date Loren Ipsum. I got the newsletter and didn’t even know I was a subscriber.

  14. Semper ubi sub ubi.

  15. SayItWithWookies says at 5:32 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Illegitimi non carborundum and whatnot. I think that means “Don’t let the bastards fuck with your carburetor.”

  16. kellygrrrl says at 5:34 pm, August 6th, 2008

    hey, are you not going to share the Natl Enq grainy photo of the dude with the $12 Supercuts ‘do they’re trying to pass off as John Edwards?

  17. shortsshortsshorts says at 5:35 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Credo quia absurdum est. Imus ad magum Ozi videndum, magum Ozi mirum mirissimum.

  18. Advocatus_Diaboli says at 5:38 pm, August 6th, 2008

    That was the most astute email I’ve ever received from HuffHo.

  19. slavojzizek says at 5:41 pm, August 6th, 2008

    As the 901st person to forward it, let me say on behalf of everyone–we don’t subscribe to this! Who knows how they got our addresses. But they did, and they sent us teh funny latin email.

  20. Mahousu says at 5:42 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Mutatio cui credere possumus non est.

  21. tunamelt says at 5:42 pm, August 6th, 2008

    At least the gibberish in the article is a mistake; I’m pretty sure that nonsensical headline was intentional.

    Michelle Obama No Baby Mama? Was she trying to construct an anagram?

  22. shortsshortsshorts says at 5:43 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Mahousu: Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione

  23. Fata Morgana says at 5:44 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Really? Is that the best you got today, Jim? They left ad latin up by mistake?

    I love you but try harder.

  24. shortsshortsshorts says at 5:47 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Fata Morgana: *cough**agree**cough* no offense to the Overlords.

  25. pdiddycornchips says at 5:49 pm, August 6th, 2008

    I got this too! It all makes perfect sense if you read it in Arianna’s Eurotrash accent.

  26. JimNewell says at 5:50 pm, August 6th, 2008
  27. weirdiowasculpture says at 5:51 pm, August 6th, 2008

    I just translated it and it’s some of the most shocking, dirtiest shit I’ve ever read. Keep it coming.

  28. tunamelt says at 5:52 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Jim Newell: Oh. Snaps.

  29. Fata Morgana says at 5:54 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Jim Newell:

    Showed me.

  30. gurukalehuru says at 5:55 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Yes, we read Huffpo, too. We can’t be here ALL the time. Well, some of us, maybe. You know who you are.

  31. Mahousu says at 5:56 pm, August 6th, 2008

    shortsshortsshorts: Quo usque tandem abutere patientia nostra?

    But anyway, Carri Nuces venales inscribo. Parvo vendam.

  32. tunamelt says at 5:59 pm, August 6th, 2008

    pdiddycornchips: She spoke at the satellite ceremony for my graduation earlier this year. I was hungover, in like 100 degree weather, and could not figure out what the hell she was saying, so I took a blurry photo and napped with my sunglasses on, instead.

  33. rubybuckaroo says at 6:02 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Amici paludis tuis.
    Telipae di tis esto bignignus.

    Spelling is off I am sure it was 45 years ago so I am entitled, right!

  34. shortsshortsshorts says at 6:05 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Mahousu: Dolium volvitur…
    HA. Cheap shot.

    weirdiowasculpture: Do tell….

  35. I don’t subscribe. They just spammed me. (And not at the address I use to talk trash online. No. My work address. Which, since it’s at veryliberalliberalartscollege.edu, they assumed I’d want to read their spam. Nope.

  36. Mahousu says at 6:17 pm, August 6th, 2008

    rubybuckaroo: “Friends of the Swamp…”? You do realize this not Time, right? Ana Marie hasn’t posted here in a while.

  37. pdiddycornchips says at 6:20 pm, August 6th, 2008

    tunamelt:

    Damn, how far down the list of Grad speakers did your school have to go before they got to her? Lauren Conrad was busy that day? I’m not a huge fan of Ms. Huffington. She was as wingnut glamor girl long before she became a leftie cougar. I wish we could trade her for Jessica Simpson and a set of chrome truck nutz.

  38. WhatTheHeck says at 6:22 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Fata Morgana: shortsshortsshorts:
    You have not come to bury Jim, but to praise him.

  39. rubybuckaroo says at 6:25 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Mahousu: See I knew my spelling would get me in trouble.
    Was just tryin’ to say: be kind to your web footed friends, for duck…

  40. A view from a “broad”?

    Harriet Christian would not approve of that sexist language!

  41. tunamelt says at 6:30 pm, August 6th, 2008

    pdiddycornchips: She wasn’t the school’s speaker; she just spoke for the journalism/pr grad ceremony. Our grad speaker was, um, the CEO of Disney.

  42. shortsshortsshorts says at 6:34 pm, August 6th, 2008

    WhatTheHeck: I have clearly missed the mark with humanity, and shall be cleansed only by His mercy. Forgive me, Overlord.
    http://www.truechristian.com/

  43. Mahousu says at 6:35 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Mahousu: OMG, forget the Latin, I decided to check up on the Swampland, and Ana Marie has uncovered the totally awesome MySpace page of major McCain donors Nadia and Shawn Abdalla:

    http://www.myspace.com/twilighthookahlounge

    To quote: No tables No chairs….ALL COUCHES….!!!

  44. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 6:49 pm, August 6th, 2008

    http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/latin.htm

    I think I figured it out - and found a few dates for the conventions, too!

    Which way to Circus Maximus, please?

  45. pdiddycornchips says at 6:50 pm, August 6th, 2008

    tunamelt:

    Gotcha. That guy at least speaks a little English. Not that I have room to talk. I matriculated at a University out west and our grad speaker was Steve Wynn. His hair was perfect.

  46. badco/LoJ says at 7:42 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Thank you lipsum.com.

  47. jagorev says at 7:46 pm, August 6th, 2008

    I don’t even subscribe to HuffPo, I’ve never commented there before, and yet I got this same email, followed a little later by a sheepish apology. If this had been China, they would have executed the entire staff and management of HuffPo by now.

  48. keepinitrealyo says at 9:01 pm, August 6th, 2008

    jagorev: I got the apology email without getting the original email. I’m saving it for when they publish Dana Milbank again.

  49. Darehead says at 9:08 pm, August 6th, 2008

    ad absurdum

  50. lawrenceofthedesert says at 9:08 pm, August 6th, 2008

    Ars longa, Jockeys brevis.

  51. Sabre_Justice says at 9:26 pm, August 6th, 2008

    So who’s gonna get strangled in the bathtub?

    Probably a Republican.

  52. Fear of a Black Reagan says at 10:54 pm, August 6th, 2008

    “they have been plagiarizing Augustus Caesar, the first black president (according to Toni Morrison)”

    It’s Cicero’s letter to Brutus, you ignorant trollop-cunt!

  53. WonkaBee says at 11:51 pm, August 6th, 2008

    That’s Trollopus Cuntus, to you!

    http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/lorem_ipsum.html

  54. S.Luggo says at 11:07 am, August 7th, 2008

    That’s not latin. It’s the lyrics to “Volare” for HuffoPo’s italian edition.

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