Monday, March 29, 2004
a few items of note. first of all, a more fulsome directive for the design of the seger t-shirt: as dennis has pointed out to me, it is clear that the shirt should be, as horace says of a young lady's hair, 'simplex munditiis', just as bob's music is.
next: i realize that bodine did not find the 'homer reading group' article funny at all, but believe you me--that will not keep ME from posting about classics-related items. as some of you may know, i spend a large part of monday in classes, and inevitably there arise some humorous moments, and today there were several. the first was that [j.d.] dennis[ton] pointed out to me that, if you read the middle initial of our greek prose comp professor as part of his last name, you actually get the word prose. to wit: gilbert p. rose becomes gilbert prose. we are now all enrolled in gil prose composition. get it? you have no idea how hard i laughed about this. think about it for a minute. it's hilarious. if you're not laughing about it yet, smack yourself with a wet palm and keep thinking.
speaking of gil prose, he said a couple of memorable things today. in discussing our assignment for next week, he said, 'those of you who have not read Thucydides will find it jarringly unpleasant'. indeed. but the fun has not even begun yet. later in class, when musing upon conditional sentences, a student tried to point out that he thought a certain construction might be a future-less-vivid condition. gil did not quite hear him, and after a moment he returned to himself from the whimsy of greek grammar. he apologized and said, 'i was kind of still grooving on future-more-vivid'. you might not have know that you can 'groove' on greek conditionals, but you can. it's a lot like listening to otis redding. finally, my roman satire professor made passing reference to a 'gratuitous flock of eunuchs' in a letter of jerome. i am certain that i do not need to explain why this is funny. again, think about it. and again, if that doesn't work, continue to smack yourself, this time with your roommate's dirty underwear.
i believe that it is time for me to get back to work. i hope i hear some sweet music on the way home. this morning i heard 'stay, just a little bit longer' (but is that the actual title?) by jackson browne, which some of you claim never to have heard, though i suspect you are LYING. oh, and also--
hey, hey--guess what i learned today?!?! today i learned that the song 'a whiter shade of pale', about which i wrote the other night, is not if fact by willie nelson! it's by procol harum. that sort of sounds like latin, huh?
next: i realize that bodine did not find the 'homer reading group' article funny at all, but believe you me--that will not keep ME from posting about classics-related items. as some of you may know, i spend a large part of monday in classes, and inevitably there arise some humorous moments, and today there were several. the first was that [j.d.] dennis[ton] pointed out to me that, if you read the middle initial of our greek prose comp professor as part of his last name, you actually get the word prose. to wit: gilbert p. rose becomes gilbert prose. we are now all enrolled in gil prose composition. get it? you have no idea how hard i laughed about this. think about it for a minute. it's hilarious. if you're not laughing about it yet, smack yourself with a wet palm and keep thinking.
speaking of gil prose, he said a couple of memorable things today. in discussing our assignment for next week, he said, 'those of you who have not read Thucydides will find it jarringly unpleasant'. indeed. but the fun has not even begun yet. later in class, when musing upon conditional sentences, a student tried to point out that he thought a certain construction might be a future-less-vivid condition. gil did not quite hear him, and after a moment he returned to himself from the whimsy of greek grammar. he apologized and said, 'i was kind of still grooving on future-more-vivid'. you might not have know that you can 'groove' on greek conditionals, but you can. it's a lot like listening to otis redding. finally, my roman satire professor made passing reference to a 'gratuitous flock of eunuchs' in a letter of jerome. i am certain that i do not need to explain why this is funny. again, think about it. and again, if that doesn't work, continue to smack yourself, this time with your roommate's dirty underwear.
i believe that it is time for me to get back to work. i hope i hear some sweet music on the way home. this morning i heard 'stay, just a little bit longer' (but is that the actual title?) by jackson browne, which some of you claim never to have heard, though i suspect you are LYING. oh, and also--
hey, hey--guess what i learned today?!?! today i learned that the song 'a whiter shade of pale', about which i wrote the other night, is not if fact by willie nelson! it's by procol harum. that sort of sounds like latin, huh?
