May 24, 2004

Your Mission

If anyone out there can translate the following phrase into Latin:

"Half-Assed Is Better Than No Ass."

Then you would be my hero, because that is my new motto, yo. I realize that I'm missing out on a pleasing grammatical parallel, but I decided not to go for "half an ass is better than no ass" because heaven forfend that anyone think I am promoting the cause of dismembered donkeys.

This past week half-assedness generated, among other things: a successful business trip, a soul-rejuvenating visit to New York City, many lovely visits with friends, a wholesale order, a new skirt, and two square feet of free desk space. These are all things that would not have happened had I sat around waiting for the whole ass to materialize. What has half-assedness done for you?

Posted by hilatron at May 24, 2004 11:22 AM | TrackBack
Comments

um. i don't understand.

Posted by: j at May 24, 2004 02:17 PM

My god, I can't even begin to describe what half-assedness has done for me. It's my entire code.

And we missed you! But glad you had a great trip. Karaoke tonight? :)

Posted by: EV at May 25, 2004 08:06 AM

hey my highschool latin club's motto was
"semper ubi sub ubi" -- always where under where.
as for your motto, i do know that the latin word for half-assed is "semifactus" but don't ask me to conjugate it.

Posted by: tree at May 25, 2004 10:52 AM

According to the translation tool at InterTran, it's…

dimidium - contraho est melior quam haud ass

Posted by: Josh at May 25, 2004 04:54 PM

You totally just inspired me.

Seriously.

I'm going to give you a big hug now.

Okay, not now.

Because now I'm going to actually get stuff done.

...

albeit half-assedly.

:)

Posted by: aaron at May 25, 2004 05:11 PM

Semifactus meliorus quam non incohatus est.

Literally, "Half-finished is better than not even begun." I might be wrong about the form of "quam", but I don't think it's far off. As I am fond of saying, I didn't get kicked out of Boston Latin School for nothing.

Also: have you seen this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/quislibet/164084.html?

Also also: let's talk.

Posted by: nikita at June 4, 2004 10:26 AM