[UA] (OT) Quotes

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- James O'Rance <jorance at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Who do people in the OU quote? I don't think that
> Dirk Allen has written 
> anything, but surely LaVey is getting a bit passe
> with the clued-in cabals.

Dirk Allen has written a few things, but they're
trash, as I recall from the basic book.  I don't think
any self-respecting occultist quotes Allen, except to
his face when they are mocking him.

Typically, Boozehounds are fundamentally pathetic
characters, anyway.  The cool thing about them is that
they can be an abusive jerk or a staggering wino one
moment, and jump three stories in a single bound the
next.  
> 


> (I've written Blavatsky's ghost - possessing Colonel
> HS Olcott - as a 
> Storyteller character).

Wasn't there an Olcott who tried to keep Theosophy
alive after Blavatsky died.  Could have sworn I read
that somewhere's...

> 
> The most amusing Latin quote that I've ever seen (I
> have it scribbled in one 
> of my dozens of notebooks) translates as "Excuse me,
> I've got to see a man 
> about a dog."
> 

Yeah.  My wife's favourite phrase is also dog-Latin:
"Quid sub toga portas?"
Which, when translated, tends to get laughs from a
wider range of people.  Bawdlerie beats out
sophistication nine times out of ten.

(Something familiar, something peculiar, etc. etc.)

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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