He looks as if he knew a great deal that can never be any use to him

Signs of Incipient Geekdom #1381: A friend signs an e-mail "SC" and your first thought is, "Who signs an e-mail 'scilicet'?"

I suppose it should follow without saying that I spent this afternoon researching Roman laws on citizenship and resident aliens for no project of my own, except that someone asked me a question to which I did not know the answer and I was curious. The process turned out to involve rather more Cicero than I had bargained for. Why does no one ever ask me questions that involve rather more Anakreon, or Lucan, or even Lykophron?

Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.

Gae drown ye in the raging sea or hang on the gallows-pin

Last night, I received spam for "gallows conservation" from Lazarus Copeland.

(The other really good one was for "bizet and accreditation," which fleurdelis28 and I agreed must have been advertising Certified Public Toreadors.)

I kind of need to do something with this . . .