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A's reactivate Bradley, send down Johnson
2006-07-14 07:54
by Bob Timmermann

Acting in loco Arnesonis here...

The Oakland Athletics reactivated outfielder Milton Bradley from the disabled and sent Dan Johnson to Sacramento. Nick Swisher will take over first base for Oakland.

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2006-07-14 08:16:53
1.   Suffering Bruin
Uncle. I mean it... uncle.

I tried Google and it said, "did you mean in loco Arnesons? and when I clicked that, it didn't help.

For the love of all that is holy, Bob. I just got back from Tennessee in July, I am going to Disneyland with four kids and you know what I don't need? I don't need to obsess on what in loco Arnesonis means but I will. (yeah, I love to bold in my posts, so sue me)

So... I'm going to go walk the dog for an hour and when I return... I expect to an answer.

Yours in loco, mi compadre... SB

2006-07-14 08:40:06
2.   Robert Daeley
Catfish Stew's Ken Arneson will be mighty displeased. Loco, even. ;)
2006-07-14 08:59:55
3.   Humma Kavula
1 It's a play on "in loco parentis":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_loco_parentis

2006-07-14 09:14:22
4.   Bob Timmermann
I'm not sure what case "Arensonis" is supposed to be. Is it ablative? Or it accusative?

I only took one year of Latin.

2006-07-14 09:19:10
5.   Humma Kavula
can't help. total years of latin: zero.

but i like a good pun. and i love a bad pun!

2006-07-14 09:31:23
6.   Bob Timmermann
I think it's the locative case. That appears to be what nouns ending in "-is" stand for. It's a rarely used case to indicate location.
2006-07-14 09:37:17
7.   Bob Timmermann
Oops, turns out that it was the genetive case.

That would make more sense.

2006-07-14 10:55:32
8.   For The Turnstiles
The Griddle: come for the baseball news, stay for the Latin lessons.
2006-07-14 11:08:48
9.   Bob Timmermann
Ken would appreciate it. I bet he knows some Latin.
2006-07-14 12:11:42
10.   Linkmeister
Cases:

The mnemonic I used to remember Russian verb cases was Never Go Downtown Alone In Leningrad.

To my shock, I learn that they've changed the Locative case name to Prepositional!

Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Instrumental and Prepositional.

No, I'm not going to write them in Cyrillic.

2006-07-14 12:59:29
11.   For The Turnstiles
10 Conveniently, they also changed the name of Leningrad to (St.) Petersburg.
2006-07-14 13:54:40
12.   Linkmeister
11Was it Arte Johnson who used to say "Hmm. Ve-r-r-y interesting" on "Laugh-In?"

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