My students in the Latin Honor Society, now in their first full year, have their first ever t-shirt, which reads ILLO MODO VOLVO (“that’s how I roll”):
That beat out an early contender which I’d first heard from Dr. Kitchell at UMass: “Saxa Latina” (i.e., Latin Rocks). I was thinking of using Roman Ruins with some visible inscription. In those old college days, if I recall, the idea was rejected because the two phrases didn’t mean precisely the same thing. ‘How would one say “to rock” in the sense required?,’ etc. I think we were so busy trying to become philologists that we missed the pun and the fun of the suggestion. Instead my college class went with a design I made as a joke, never imagining anyone would make it, let alone wear it: AuGUSTus Busters. It looked like the Ghost Busters logo, except that in place of the ghost, you had the Augustus of Prima Porta. Get it? AuGUSTus Busters?
I couldn’t believe it either. But apparently no one else submitted an idea.
Another idea I’d thought of for my students (which I’d first heard from my fiancée), but one that would probably have been too risqué, asked “What was Oedipus’ fatal flaw? He conjugated when he ought to have declined.”
I told that to my colleagues in Spanish and they all enjoyed the joke.