[Sca-cooks] too cool sig line-

[Susan Lin]

Einstein said he never bothered to memorize anything he could look up -
you're in good company!

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> wrote:

> 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
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>> 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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> abilities."  -Albus Dumbledore
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