and that was Tuesday
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incandescensShould one panic slightly when one's office-mate coughs regularly in an ominous manner? She says she's healthy. She'd better not be infectious.
Am reading some just-arrived Minami Megumu. All right, let's be honest. Am looking at the pretty pictures and identifying the odd character and even the occasional word. It's still educational.
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This is bad. It made me snicker.
Lay of Ancient Rome
Oh, the Roman was a rogue,
He erat was, you bettum;
He ran his automobilis
And smoked his cigarettum;
He wore a diamond studibus
And elegant cravattum,
A maxima cum laude shirt,
And a stylish hattum!
He loved the luscious hic-haec-hoc,
And bet on games and equi;
At times he won, at others, though,
He got it in the necqui;
He winked (quo usque tandem?)
At puellas on the Forum,
And sometimes even made
Those goo-goo oculorum!
He frequently was seen
At combats gladiatorial,
And ate enough to feed
Ten boarders at Memorial;
He often went on sprees
And said, on starting homus,
"Hic labor --- opus est,
Oh, where's my hic--hic--domus?"
Although he lived in Rome --
Of all the arts the middle --
He was (excuse the phrase)
A horrid individ'l;
Ah! what a diff'rent thing
Was the homo (dative, hominy)
Of far-away B.C.
From us of Anno Domini.
-- Thomas Ybarra
Am reading some just-arrived Minami Megumu. All right, let's be honest. Am looking at the pretty pictures and identifying the odd character and even the occasional word. It's still educational.
---
This is bad. It made me snicker.
Lay of Ancient Rome
Oh, the Roman was a rogue,
He erat was, you bettum;
He ran his automobilis
And smoked his cigarettum;
He wore a diamond studibus
And elegant cravattum,
A maxima cum laude shirt,
And a stylish hattum!
He loved the luscious hic-haec-hoc,
And bet on games and equi;
At times he won, at others, though,
He got it in the necqui;
He winked (quo usque tandem?)
At puellas on the Forum,
And sometimes even made
Those goo-goo oculorum!
He frequently was seen
At combats gladiatorial,
And ate enough to feed
Ten boarders at Memorial;
He often went on sprees
And said, on starting homus,
"Hic labor --- opus est,
Oh, where's my hic--hic--domus?"
Although he lived in Rome --
Of all the arts the middle --
He was (excuse the phrase)
A horrid individ'l;
Ah! what a diff'rent thing
Was the homo (dative, hominy)
Of far-away B.C.
From us of Anno Domini.
-- Thomas Ybarra
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Date: 2003-09-09 06:03 pm (UTC)Which Minami Megumu?
-mjj
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Date: 2003-09-10 01:32 am (UTC)White Rose, El Diablo, Tarantula (if I'm reading the name correctly), and a couple of others whose kanji I'm having problems with. As you say in the reviews, very pretty stuff. ;)
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Date: 2003-09-10 04:59 am (UTC)-mjj
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Date: 2003-09-10 07:06 am (UTC)I really need to internalise this attitude that nothing at all is sacred. It'd be so useful.
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Date: 2003-09-09 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-10 06:53 am (UTC)So I guess it has the snicker effect overall. Thanks for posting it.
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Date: 2003-09-10 10:29 am (UTC)I mean, I'm taking Latin and I'm doing my Latin memorization every day and now it's making my head all poundy!
I pout. Although it is cute.