[Sca-cooks] translation needed

Robin rcmann4 at earthlink.net
Tue Nov 1 16:16:37 PST 2005


morgana.abbey at juno.com wrote:

>A friend of mine just asked what this means:  basia asinus tuus vale
>  
>
I have never studied Latin, but a quick Web search tells me that this 
phrase means "kiss your ass goodbye".  The word "asinus" means "ass", as 
in donkey -- somehow I don't think it has the same alternate meaning in 
Latin as it does in English.

-- 
Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net




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