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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCIWSSSG12 Game 3, Rounds 2-3: La   
   15 May 22 10:42:15   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 3, Round 2 - History - Common Latin Phrases   
   >   
   > 1. Mala fide.   
      
   Bad faith. For example, you bought this widget for a good price from   
   someone you had all reason to suspect having stolen it.   
      
   > 2. Alma mater.   
      
   (Someone's) old school   
      
   > 3. Ante bellum.   
      
   Before the war.   
      
   > 4. Caveat emptor.   
      
   With reservations for.   
      
   > 6. Cum laude.   
      
   With compliments   
      
   > 7. De jure.   
      
   According to law.   
      
   > 9. In camera.   
      
   In the room   
      
   > * Game 3, Round 3 - Literature - Chapter and Verse   
   >   
   > 4. 8th Century BC: "Paris, Menelaus and Helen", "The Armies Clash",   
   >    "Diomedes Goes to Battle", "Zeus Deceived", "Achilles Returns   
   >    to Battle", "The Death of Hector".   
      
   The Illiade   
      
   > 5. 1865: "The Pool of Tears", "A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale", "Pig   
   >    and Pepper", "The Mock Turtle's Story", "The Lobster Quadrille".   
      
   Alice in Wonderland   
      
   > 8. 1920: "Proteus", "Lotus Eaters", "Hades", "Scylla and Charybdis",   
   >    "Sirens", "Oxen of the Sun", "Circe", "Ithica", "Penelope".   
      
   Odyssues   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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