I kid you not:

Nearly all those European dots were searching on the phrase Praeterea censeo Carthaginem esse delendam,which, for those of you not in the know, is apparently how* Cato the Elder ended every speech in the Roman Senate, no matter what the subject. The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat is your #1 Google hit for this phrase.
So to my brethren in Europe: I don't know nearly enough Latin to be useful, only enough to be dangerous. Try the Pope next time; I hear his translation is infallible.
P.S. Attention! Dude from Qatar! Are you lost?
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**The alternative formulation, by the way, is Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam, but really who cares?
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