Raisin Receipts

[underworlddreams]

OK, just out of interest, can someone out there remind me what the inscription is supposed to be on a Raisin Receipt?

[hr][s]Things that movies have taught us:
[l]
[li] When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak to each other in English.
[li] All bombs with electronic timing devices are fitted with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
[li] A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
[li] In a movie, no matter what window you look out in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is always right there.
[li] All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets that reach the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.
[li] A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating, but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
[li] You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
[li] Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communications system of any invading alien society.[/l][/s]

[Al]

What - the Latin stuff? It should be in the booklet produced by the Union. If they still do produce a booklet....

If not, and you can't find the info elsewhere, I have it written down somewhere. I just don't particularly want to write it all out.

[hr]"Happiness is a time, a place...a chemical imbalance"

[Pilmour Boy]

Google is your friend:
Ego, [Insert 3rd year's name],
civis tertianus huius illustris
Universitate Sancti Andreae
A te
[Insert 1st year's name]
mea bejantine
Unam livram uvarum sicarum me accepisse pro qua multas gratias tibi ago
Ab universitate condita DXCII ano
I think that the number's are right, but my Roman numerals are a bit rusty. Also, don't forget to challenge the bejant(ine)s!

[hr] “There is a theory that if anyone figures out exactly what the universe is for and why we are here, it will be immediately replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is a similar theory that this has already happened.”

[Al]

Some of the above is, unfortunately, wrong. It is also incomplete. The full, correct text is:

Ego [parent's name] civis
tertianus/a (if third year)
magistrandus/a (if fourth year)
alumnus/a (if graduate)
huius celeberrimae universitatis sancti andreae qui [parent's subject] cum maximo ingenio et labore studet, a te, [name of child]
meo bejanto carissimo enervarto atque mente invalido, [if bejant]
mea bejantina carissima enervarta atque mente invalida, [if bejantine]
qui ex, [child's home town]
qui [child's subjects]
studet, unam libram uvarum siccarum accepisse affirmo pro qua multas gratias tibi ago.

AUC DXCI a.d XVIII Kal. Dec.

Obviously, the variants at the end of some of the words depend on whether the receipt is written by a man or woman. It should also be written as a continuous piece. I have broken it up to make it easier to follow.

[hr]"Happiness is a time, a place...a chemical imbalance"

[Pilmour Boy]

OK, now I'm impressed! Now if you'd like to put the Latin names for the subjects down...

[Prophet Tenebrae]

Yup, that saved me having to either make it up or go looking - nice job Al.

Is there a translation handy my latin is rusty - in fact it was never good to start with - all I get is the usual hard working students etc.

[hello]

The University was founded in 1411, the roman numeral for this is MCDXI.

[Pilmour Boy]

While the Papal Bull making us a university was issued in 1411, classes started in 1410, so that's a good one to challenge people on.

[hr] “There is a theory that if anyone figures out exactly what the universe is for and why we are here, it will be immediately replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is a similar theory that this has already happened.”

[wookiee]

The Roman Numerals on the receipt aren't of the founding date of the University, but of how many years it's been since then!

[hr]Computer games don't affect kids;I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, people would be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.....

[harl]

Arrrgggh. Need 5 receipts. Only have one. Just out of interest, anyone got anything good? A friend acquired an arabic typewriter that was just about to get binned.

[Al]

A very rough translation is:

" I,..... a third year/fourth year/graduate fellow citizen of this celebrated university of St Andrews who with great natural ability and toil studies.....,gives this to you,....... my beloved bejant, of tired and invalided mind, from.......who studies.......,and as thanks for this will accept from you one pound of dry grapes"

[hr]"Happiness is a time, a place...a chemical imbalance"