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numerals, Roman, large, overly, printing of, how to do it



    Implementors are informally encouraged to print either the decimal
    equivalent, or else the phrase

    	GUIDO CANTABRIGIENSIS PERDITOR PERDELIRUS


OK, somebody has to ask: What, O mighty and imponederable Quux, does
this phrase mean in English, if indeed it is translatable and not too
obscene for transmission via netmail?

My Latin stopped with "Sic Friat Crustulum": So crumbles the cookie.
(Actually, I think it's "biscuit" -- the Romans seem not have had
cookies in the modern sense, since Cortes had not yet conquered the land
where chocolate chips grow.)

-- Scott