Latin at school - a thread

When I was 12, we young gentlemen were streamed into classes for utterly arbitrary reasons. I wanted to do German - I was going to do science and most early 20th Century physics involved Germans - and was in a rat bate when I was told I was doing Latin Latin! Why me? Why? And then a funny thing happened on the way to Form 2L. I fell in love with the language, the history and yes, the anally-retentive part of me enjoyed the declensions and all that stuff. It became my favourite subject of all time.

For some time now I have had this sneaking suspicion that Dr Evil has been involved with this mission @_TheSeaning @dsquareddigest @NeilKBrand @davejgiles @People_Of_Space @RadioKate @Jenny_Radcliffe @tanyaofmars

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Look at those surface rocks. They could only have come from