Another picture from weirdomatic.com showing what happens when you play with your food.
All posts for the month September, 2008
Lecture Hall
Posted by acilius on September 8, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/08/lecture-hall/
Etymology Teaching Illustrated
In 1982, Hollywood gave us a glimpse of what etymology teaching could be.
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/etymology-teaching-illustrated/
No, look at it again
Via NotNSFW, a sister site of haha.nu, an ad with a logo that might… well, here it is.
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/no-look-at-it-again/
Two Points for Lenin!
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/two-points-for-lenin/
SoKo Will Never Love You More
This is something else I was sure I’d posted here about six months ago, but apparently I didn’t.
Posted by acilius on September 6, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/06/soko-will-never-love-you-more/
3quarksdaily
Here’s a filter blog about lots of random stuff. http://3quarksdaily.com/
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/3quarksdaily/
Radiophonica Finnica Generalis
For almost 20 years, Finnish radio has been running a daily news program in Latin. It’s on FM in Finland, on shortwave everywhere else. Here’s their page about that program, with some old broadcasts available on RealAudio.
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/radiophonica-finnica-generalis/
Aulus Gellius Online
I’m sure you’re all as fascinated by the second-century miscellanist Aulus Gellius as I am. Who isn’t? Here’s his book, the Attic Nights, online, in Latin with some of the English from the Loeb translation.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Gellius/home.html
Here’s Gellius referenced in Irving Babbitt’s Literature and The American College.
Here’s the frontispiece from an early edition of the Attic Nights.
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/aulus-gellius-online/
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/jacqueline-bouvier-kennedy-onassis/
Deja Vu
From Politico.com, a view of the Republican ticket as they appeared in 2004.
Also, I keep waiting for somebody to pick up on Palin’s source for her “pit bull with lipstick” line. It’s been up on another candidate’s blog for a year or so. A female presidential candidate, with a female running mate, who has more than a little bit in common with the pair above…
http://www.theamericanparty.org/electtemplinandmoorein20041/
Oh, and here’s the same candidate making the same joke in 2004. http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2004-01-20/news_feat.html
Posted by acilius on September 5, 2008
https://losthunderlads.com/2008/09/05/deja-vu/






