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  • For I-5 travelers who, like Scarlet but unlike me, are fluent in Latin and familiar with the works of Wilfred Owen, there's also a sign on the fence of Camp Pendleton that reads, "Dulce et Decorum est por Halliburton Mori" ("it is sweet and honorqable (or 'decorus') to die for Halliburton").

    August 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • For I-5 travelers who, like Scarlet but unlike me, are fluent in Latin and familiar with the works of Wilfred Owen, there's also a sign on the fence of Camp Pendleton that reads, "Dulce et Decorum est por Halliburton Mori" ("it is sweet and honorqable (or 'decorus') to die for Halliburton").

    September 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • For I-5 travelers who, like Scarlet but unlike me, are fluent in Latin and familiar with the works of Wilfred Owen, there's also a sign on the fence of Camp Pendleton that reads, "Dulce et Decorum est por Halliburton Mori" ("it is sweet and honorqable (or 'decorus') to die for Halliburton").

    August 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • For I-5 travelers who, like Scarlet but unlike me, are fluent in Latin and familiar with the works of Wilfred Owen, there's also a sign on the fence of Camp Pendleton that reads, "Dulce et Decorum est por Halliburton Mori" ("it is sweet and honorqable (or 'decorus') to die for Halliburton").

    August 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • For I-5 travelers who, like Scarlet but unlike me, are fluent in Latin and familiar with the works of Wilfred Owen, there's also a sign on the fence of Camp Pendleton that reads, "Dulce et Decorum est por Halliburton Mori" ("it is sweet and honorqable (or 'decorus') to die for Halliburton").

    ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • For I-5 travelers who, like Scarlet but unlike me, are fluent in Latin and familiar with the works of Wilfred Owen, there's also a sign on the fence of Camp Pendleton that reads, "Dulce et Decorum est por Halliburton Mori" ("it is sweet and honorqable (or 'decorus') to die for Halliburton").

    August 2003 ~ Angry Bear 2003

  • "Pollici proximus digitus mediumque, qua dexter est, unguem pollicis summo suo iungens, remissis ceteris, est et approbantibus et narrantibus et distinguentibus decorus."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Or the first part of my personal mission statement "Engineering beautiful software" becomes "Condita decorus progressio" (well, "making beautiful programs": -).

    Archive 2007-04-01 Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • Or the first part of my personal mission statement "Engineering beautiful software" becomes "Condita decorus progressio" (well, "making beautiful programs": -).

    Translate your personal motto into Latin Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • In any event, pointing out that people who say “you want people to take drugs do you?” are normally the same kind of po-faced schoolmarms who react in horror when they learn that young men might wear baggy trousers and listen to that rap music or that a young lady might drink a pint of ale rather than a decorus glass of white wine can also do the trick.

    Dinner with John Humphreys Alix Mortimer 2009

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