[Sca-cooks] too cool sig line-

[Laura C. Minnick]

Antonia di Benedetto Calvo wrote:
> Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
>> I bet Antonia never got a Wedgius Maximus in Latin class... that's 
>> where the offender pulls your underwear up so high it can be draped 
>> over the left arm and shoulder, down and across the right hip, and 
>> back up again to the left shoulder... this requires a great deal of 
>> proficiency, but it never happened to the cool kids.
>>   
>
> I never did Latin 'til I was over 30, so no-one was too game to try it 
> :-)
>
> uedgio
> uedgies
> uedgiet
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I didn't take Latin until I was... 35? My homework was good, because I 
could use the book and my dictionaries and my flash cards and all that 
to help me do it. But the exams were all based on rote memorization, and 
I could not pass once to save my life. You could ask my kids- I had 
posters and flash cards and little cards on a ring that I could flip 
through while on the bus, etc.- but as soon as I closed the door to my 
office or put the cards away, it all vanished. Saying that my Latin 
skills are feeble is a laughable understatement. And it isn't because I 
didn't try. Frankly for a medievalist, it is a career killer.

'Lainie, who limps by anyway

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