Travel the furthest game!

HolyHesus

I dunno, I just thought it would be fun to give a prize to the person that traveled the furthest to get to pax. I dunno what the prize would be. But I am debating on giving up my life sized clone trooper cardboard cut out... it scares me every time i walk in my room.

just a thought.

edit: haha wait.. it would be possibly be hard to return home with it if you win... let me think this over.

aechean

I'm currently deployed to Kuwait with the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

I am going to PAX.

w00t

Aydr

I think an appropriate prize would be a set of weights.

The largest and heaviest we can find.

de4dmeta1

aechean wrote: »

I'm currently deployed to Kuwait with the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

I am going to PAX.

w00t

Okay, but will you be heading back to Kuwait immediately after PAX? I think that's what they're going for here.

Maccy

aechean wrote: »

I'm currently deployed to Kuwait with the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

I am going to PAX.

w00t

Well this beats me, but for what it's worth, I'm coming from England, and I'm going back via Australia.

Heliosphan

Maccy wrote: »

aechean wrote: »

I'm currently deployed to Kuwait with the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

I am going to PAX.

w00t

Well this beats me, but for what it's worth, I'm coming from England, and I'm going back via Australia.

ohhh snap! i'm coming from scotland. it's going to be some journey by myself, really looking forward to it though.

ctishman

aechean wrote: »

I'm currently deployed to Kuwait with the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

I am going to PAX.

w00t

You're seriously in the W.A.N.G. ?

That is... spectacular.

anable

ctishman wrote: »

aechean wrote: »

I'm currently deployed to Kuwait with the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

I am going to PAX.

w00t

You're seriously in the W.A.N.G. ?

That is... spectacular.

I can only hope that the next post by aechean is a picture of his unit's badge that reads "WANG: Always ready to serve."

Sl1pstream

Coming from and going back to Belgium just for PAX.

ctishman

(latin butchered because I couldn't find somebody who spoke it at the moment)

aechean

ctishman wrote: »

(latin butchered because I couldn't find somebody who spoke it at the moment)

That is fantastic. I am going to petition my unit to change our patch.

I will actually be returning from my tour right before PAX, but I'm sure I'll be back to this wonderful part of the world sometime within the next two years O_o

Moe Fwacky

You might want to check on his latin before you start that petition.

ctishman

I'm sure he's joking. I don't think they'd want something that looks like a cock-and-balls as their patch.






or would they?

ElectricTurtle

Yes, rather. I took a year of classical Latin, and 'Semper Cinctum' means 'Always surrounded' or 'Always clothed' lol! It can have the connotation of 'Always dressed for action' but that would seem potentially ambiguous or awkward. I would suggest 'Semper Penetrandum' for 'Always Penetrating' (I took me a fair amount of time to refresh my limited Latin to the point of figuring out an accusitive gerund for a first conjugal verb). However, somebody should probably check me too, because one year's study over five years ago does not a significant Latin scholar make.

Moe Fwacky

I think he said he was going for "Always Alert"

ElectricTurtle

That would be some form of "Vigilans" that I don't want to go to the work of figuring out for sure.

ctishman

Aye, that I was. The definition I took said:

shitty online latin dictionary wrote:

accingo -cingere -cinxi -cinctum [to gird on] a weapon; [to equip , arm] a person; with reflex., or in pass., [to arm oneself], hence [to make oneself ready].

I've updated it with yours, but if I can find one with a proper "always ready", I'd love to go with that one.

Thanks, by the way, for helping with this!

ElectricTurtle

Ah, you forgot the '-' denotes a continuation from a root prefix or whatever, so you meant 'accintum' not just 'cinctum'. 'Accintum' would be just fine and would more clearly mean 'ready' or 'prepared' (I'm not saying that's the right or wrong case, because I'm so long out of Latin I don't have instincts for that anymore and I'd have to look it all up again.)

HolyHesus

Aydr wrote: »

I think an appropriate prize would be a set of weights.

The largest and heaviest we can find.

haha, that is great idea... here is a picture of my clone trooper



Leis not included.

HolyHesus

Actually i can make some cool bling on the lei that says "I traveled the furthest to get to PAX and all what I got was this Cardboard Clone Trooper."

ctishman

Fixed! Awesome! Thanks again, ElectricTurtle!