Horace?!

[FreddyBrown]

I meant to make note of this earlier but for those of you who read Spanky's article on the Lickliter situation today, he deserves special mention in the categories of literacy and erudition for opening with a quote from "Horace" that "nothing is swifter than rumor." Now, I'm a reasonably well read guy but hardly steeped in the classics, so my first reaction was, "Horace? Horace who? Horace Greeley? Horace Grant? Who the heck is Horace?"

Thanks to the wonders of Wiki I have now been educated to the fact that Horace--actual name Quintus Horatius Flaccus--was a Roman poet who lived and died in the first century B.C. I just wanted to mention this because I was quite impressed with Spanky for pulling that one out of the hat to open the article. Now I'm wondering if Spanky splits his spare time between watching hoops and reading the classics. Or did he do an Internet search for quotes about rumor and come up with that one?

Either way, thanks to Spanky I feel that I am now a better educated, more well rounded person due to having been inspired to learn who this Horace fellow was.

By the way, among the things I learned about Quintus Horatius Flaccus on Wiki were that he had a great jumper but was weak with his left hand, that he is the source of the term "taking flack" for his exploits in the Roman bath houses, and that he is an ancestor of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco.

In any event, very well done, Spanky.

 

[HawKCP]

I meant to make note of this earlier but for those of you who read Spanky's article on the Lickliter situation today, he deserves special mention in the categories of literacy and erudition for opening with a quote from "Horace" that "nothing is swifter than rumor." Now, I'm a reasonably well read guy but hardly steeped in the classics, so my first reaction was, "Horace? Horace who? Horace Greeley? Horace Grant? Who the heck is Horace?"

Thanks to the wonders of Wiki I have now been educated to the fact that Horace--actual name Quintus Horatius Flaccus--was a Roman poet who lived and died in the first century B.C. I just wanted to mention this because I was quite impressed with Spanky for pulling that one out of the hat to open the article. Now I'm wondering if Spanky splits his spare time between watching hoops and reading the classics. Or did he do an Internet search for quotes about rumor and come up with that one?

Either way, thanks to Spanky I feel that I am now a better educated, more well rounded person thanks to having been inspired to learn who this Horace fellow was.

By the way, among the things I learned about Quintus Horatius Flaccus on Wiki were that he had a great jumper but was weak with his left hand, that he is the inventor of the term "taking Flack" for his exploits in the Roman bath houses, and that he is an ancestor of Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco.

In any event, very well done, Spanky.

Did someone say Situation?

 

[FreddyBrown]

Just a wild guess but is that something from "The Jersey Shore"?

Wow. From Horace the Roman poet to The Jersey Shore. We cover the cultural spectrum here on HN.com!

 

[storminspank]

FB - if you go back to the article, you'll notice I hyperlinked Horace's wiki page for those who were unfamiliar of him. And I would be pulling the wool over everyone's eyes if I said I remembered that exact quote from college without Googleing it.

 

[tweeterhawk]

I figured Horace was just one of those one-name Brazilian soccer players.

 

[FreddyBrown]

FB - if you go back to the article, you'll notice I hyperlinked Horace's wiki page for those who were unfamiliar of him. And I would be pulling the wool over everyone's eyes if I said I remembered that exact quote from college without Googleing it.

Sheeoooot. I could have saved myself a couple of clicks!