Better Latin never.

 Peter wrote in Italian in a comment on my last post.

"Un uomo con gli occhiali ha un asino di nome Nod che si masturba ed è felice. Questo è bello."

As you probably know, in 1966, the boys in 3P, of which Peter was one, were taught Latin. 

"Mea culpa."

'Mea culpa' is a phrase he still uses often. You don't normally find him using Italian, so I suspect that we must give some credit to Google Translate. If you look through what he has written, one word stands out because it is very similar in English.

'Masturba'. In Latin it would be 'masturbat' in this form of the verb (when someone, or something, is doing it). So that immediately gives you a clue to what he might be talking about. There is masturbation happening. Next we look for nouns. A lot of you may know that 'uomo' means 'man'. 'Occhiali' is quite a common word, so some of you may know it. If not, there's always Google Translate. 'Un asino' must be a noun because it has 'a' in front of it. 'Nod' is obviously some sort of name. I'm sure we could all have a good guess at the meaning of 'bello'.

Peter boasts after his little Italian adventure, "I think that I'd do quite well as a linguist." Well, we all know that he had a talent for selling things, even if they didn't belong to him, in about 1967, when he started stealing communion hosts. I think that the purpose of 3P was to turn out priests, doctors, lawyers and governor generals. I don't think that nicking stuff was on the original agenda. That occupation was left for the more desperate members of 3R (later to be renamed 3M). 

Sorry, I didn't finish translating Peter's Italian for you. Ah, you've probably already done it using Google Translate. Fair enough, I'll leave it there.

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The good news is that the little cut on my little left hand finger, near the nail, is getting better and is not interfering with violin practice. Though, I have put double bass practice on hold for a few days so that it doesn't get bashed around too much. 

I'm doing a lot of work on those 3rd / 7th chords because I want them to be automatic in all keys - so they pop out when needed. It's going well. 

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It's Sunday today. A lot of Christians, including both Protestants and Catholics, will be off to church. It's the best day for church shop profits.

Don't forget what Robert told us on his blog, "More souls are going to hell now than ever before. Sexual perversion, adultery and fornification are rampant." I know that Rob probably blames the Protestants for misinterpreting the Bible, or something. I suspect that fornication (I assume that Rob meant to use this word) has been around, and heavily in demand, throughout history.

Fornication: "Voluntary sexual intercourse between unmarried persons or outside of marriage." I read that definition on a Christian site.

Do you believe that Hell (a nightmare idea for young children) exists? Rob obviously knows enough about it to be able to say that more souls are going there. How would he know this? Did Mary tell him? "Thanks for saying the Rosary, Robert. By the way, here's something that might interest you. More souls are going to Hell now than ever before. Perhaps it's time for another flood?"

So, god keeps turning out people and doesn't seem that worried that a lot of them are finishing up suffering for eternity. Surely he can do better than that? Does he like to see his creations suffer? 

Here's something I read about - Many years ago the Catholic Church assumed that women gathering herbs were witches. When they were rounded up, a long spike was placed up their vagina and it slowly worked its way through their bodies. It took many days to kill them and was a very, very painful way to go. As the old blues song said, "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself."

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Hey, I just read Robert's latest post and learnt two things.

1) I was right about Mary talking about Hell.

Robert tells us, "Mary showed the
three children at Fatima a vision of hell."

It looks like it is Mary who is going on about Hell.

2) Jesus might be gay.

Well, that's me for today.

Ciao tutti.