Inverse Ninja Theorem
The total power of ninja in a location does not depend on the number of ninja.

Saw Pirates 3. Better than the second, with more plot but less action; but worse than the first.

“Oh.”
Everyone was thinking it, but someone had to say it.

To know about the game is to play the game.
To think about the game is to lose the game.
If you lose the game, you must announce it; then there is a 30 minute period during which the game cannot be lost.

I managed to remember the game while forgetting to lose it. Is it possible to win the game?

Tell me something.
“I just lost the game.”

Rome to home.

I must, I trust, eschew
Blindsided view
With respect to perspective, to
See without eye ‘pon you.
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Today’s words: Ciao bella

All things have mass.
Paris is worth a mass.
Therefore, we’ll always have Paris.

Gerald Ford : Richard Nixon :: Arnold Schwarzenegger : Paris Hilton
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Today’s word: Sempre

“UoV egw genomhn agapwmenou wme migeisa…”
I have become beloved of swine.
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Today’s word: Cripta

Vae victis.

“‘It’s like the Roman Empire. Wasn’t everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano.’ Do you think she was right? Why or why not?”
I can provide no better answer than to quote Suetonius’s completely accurate account of Aeneas’s final words to C. Mussolini Caesar, which were inscribed on the Aswan granite wall dividing the temples of Fortuna and Mater Matuta: “You lolligag to first. You lolligag to second. You lolligag to third. What does that make you? A heffalump.”

(-50 for not including a solution to the Corner Triglyph Problem)
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Today’s word: Rovina

“What’s the difference between grad school and hell?”
“You’d never tell anyone to go to grad school”.

“How much sleep did you get the first year?”
“Don’t answer that.”

“A classics PhD is a guarantee that you’re somewhat literate.”
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Today’s word: Lavoro

Gilette’s Razor
All things being equal, the simplest solution works, but a multi-blade approach works better.
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Today’s word: Lavoro

Sitting in one place for days on end and letting the bowling balls crash upon my head, my record is 75.
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Today’s word: Lavoro

If I don’t get free time, no one gets free time.
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Today’s word: Lavoro

“Poetry is the space between whispering breath that words on a page don't have.”

One of the hardest things to do is to read bad poetry.

“…and you are glad, too, the Ukrainian masseuse you see every Wednesday / is not in love with you, and has no plans to be…”
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Today’s word: Lavoro

What I know about opera:
They sing.
It means work in Latin.
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Today’s word: Lavoro

Mayday.
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Today’s word: Lavoro

What do you call the mini Greek dictionary?
“The Little Liddell.”
So what’s the intermediate one called?
“The Middle Liddell.”
So that makes the big one the Big Liddell?
“No: the Great Scott.”

Anything that can’t be found in LSJ deserves a note.
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Today’s words: Cravatta a farfalla

Kleptomania: the gift that keeps on giving.
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Today’s word: Prego

“I can't see much of the future…”
Past/Present.
“…Spurn my natural emotions…”
Thinking/Feeling
“…We won't be together much longer…
Dream/Reality
“…Ever fallen in love / In love with someone / You shouldn't have fallen in love with?”
No/Yes
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Today’s words: Ho perso

7 1/2 bowls of pasta e fagioli is not an accomplishment, but merely lunch.
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Today’s word: Zuppa

“Which is worse: wikipedia or sorcery?”
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but that was an amazing thing to walk in on.

Done talking.

“In putting together this report, we opted for expediency rather than research.”
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Today’s word: Veloce