{"id":1458,"date":"2016-04-14T11:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2016-04-14T02:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:24:11","slug":"fortune-favours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nayrb.org\/~blog\/2016\/04\/14\/fortune-favours\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune Favours…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s often said that ‘Fortune Favours the Bold’, a translation of a number of associated latin mottos<\/a>[1], originally quoted<\/a> from the Aeneid<\/a>. <\/p>\n

But what else does Fortune Favour? In different circumstances, Fortune could Favour many different things.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

If you are a newspaper:
\n – Fortune Favours Above the Fold<\/p>\n

If you are researching a new type of cheese:
\n – Fortune Favours the Mould<\/p>\n

If you are a manufacturer of desserts containing cryptic messages:
\n – Fortune Favours the Mould[2]<\/p>\n

If you are hoping your ice sculpture will last:
\n – Fortune Favours the Cold<\/p>\n

For those colonizing a new world and hoping for horses:
\n – Fortune Favours the Foaled<\/p>\n

For those hoping to move houses:
\n – Fortune Favours the Sold<\/p>\n

For those hoping to not fall off their gondola:
\n – Fortune Favours the Poled<\/p>\n

Nelson<\/a>[3] is thought[4] to have said:
\n – ‘Fortune Favours the Coaled.’<\/p>\n

Other associated sayings:<\/p>\n

For those who enjoy canned pineapple:
\n – Fortune Flavours the Doled<\/p>\n

For those who evade blame:
\n – Fortune Waivers the Scold<\/p>\n

For those overheated who luckily find shelter:
\n – Fortune Savours the Cold<\/p>\n

For those working with Filo[5] pastry:
\n – Fortune Flavours the Rolled<\/p>\n

And finally, for those of a musical persuasion:
\n – Fourtune Favours the Multiphonic (my favourite)<\/p>\n

[1]And a DS9 episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[2]From S!<\/p>\n

[3]Somehow, Horatio Nelson does not appear in the first ten(!) pages when you search for ‘nelson’<\/a>. Even Nelson Mandela doesn’t appear until page 7! What?!?<\/p>\n

[4]No.<\/p>\n

[5]Not to be confused with their enharmonic<\/a> equivalent[6] ‘Lifo pastry<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

[6]The enharmonic equivalent for ‘Filo’ would actually be ‘Lofi’, but that sounds silly, and I had already written the joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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