the latin mouse's profile

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Joined: December 13, 2007

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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

My user name is a riff on a line from the Ars Poetica that I came across in school and found amusing: 'parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus'. The colloquial translation is 'All that work and nothing to show for it', but the literal translation is 'A mountain will go into labour and give birth to a foolish mouse'.

If I marked your comment as a favorite and you were wondering why, it's probably because it made me laugh.