Lecture Hall

Another picture from weirdomatic.com showing what happens when you play with your food.

http://www.weirdomatic.com/bon-appetit.html#more-1159

Etymology Teaching Illustrated

In 1982, Hollywood gave us a glimpse of what etymology teaching could be.

No, look at it again

Via NotNSFW, a sister site of haha.nu, an ad with a logo that might… well, here it is.

http://notnsfw.com/

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. 

3quarksdaily

Here’s a filter blog about lots of random stuff.  http://3quarksdaily.com/

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. 

http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/

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.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=RfQTAAAAIAAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=aulus+gellius+i-babbitt&ots=cqiPp6VQKP&sig=NI-thKMCKk7xaNQqMX3hjfIAgYI

Here’s the frontispiece from an early edition of the Attic Nights.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Funny, she didn’t look like that on TV…

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