The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82450 Message #1512197
Posted By: Joe Offer
29-Jun-05 - 12:33 AM
Thread Name: Latin scholars needed...
Subject: RE: Latin scholars needed...
Ah, but John, there's only one Greek spelling of it, and this sort of thing was right up the Good Father's alley. He told us a story about a man who complained to his psychiatrist that he kept having dreams about having a golden screw in his navel. So, the psychiatrist told him to dream of a golden screwdriver, and unscrew the screw. The man did that, got up the next morning, and his rear end fell off.
Now, that story would have been a great lead-in for teaching about Venus Kalipygos, and that would have broadened our Greek vocabulary... -Joe Offer-