O Fortuna ~ Misheard
Tip o’ the pileus to Laura Gibbs for passing this along and giving me yet another occasion to spew my latte over my computer screen … definitely a keeper:
Exclusus Slamadoor?
Excerpt from Gillian Clark’s column in the Huffington Post: [...] When I started college, I figured I had enough cynicism to make it on my own. I was told that Patrick Henry jumped through a window down to a waiting horse after presenting his liberty vs. death ultimatum. And no, that is not pepper on [...]
Greece Offers Giant Horse
Credit/blame for this one goes to Adrian Murdoch, who was tweeting such things t’other day: In what many are hailing as a breakthrough solution to Greece’s crippling debt crisis, Greece today offered to repay loans from the European Union nations by giving them a gigantic horse. Finance ministers from sixteen EU nations awoke in Brussels [...]
Sunday Funnies
Over the past while I’ve accumulated a few doorworthy comics … some will embed and some won’t, so I’ll just provide links … enjoy: Via Elizabeth H on Twitter and Dan Diffendale … SMBC on the ‘Paradox of the Court’: Source: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2148 Via Liz Gloyn on Twitter … Plato gets a rejection letter (blogpost, not [...]
Lesser Known Greek Gods
The Argyle Sweater Comic Strip, March 11, 2010 on GoComics.com.
Citanda: Medical Case Histories on Mount Olympus.
Tip o’ the pileus to Randolph Bragg for this bit o’ fun: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Medical Case Histories on Mount Olympus..
The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
A ‘busy girl’ sent this one in (gratias tibi ago!): Mythtickle by Justin Thompson
Cross Cultural Match of the Century!
… or so it seemed when I read this headline a bit too quickly: Alexander on undercard as Latimore faces Spinks … could the wily translator match up to the inquisitive Egyptian beastie? The followup tells the tale: Spinks edges Latimore for IBF belt! … and in case you were wondering, Alexander enneagrammatically KOed Jesus [...]
Doorworthy
Tip o’ the pileus to Ivo Volt: The Argyle Sweater
Doorworthy
Frank and Ernest haven’t been Classical for a while:..
Breviaria 04/04/09
Assorted items which have caught my eye of late: The headline says it all: Applying the wisdom of Alexander the Great to Business Intelligence Some sort of 3d modelling project for the Acropolis was recently undertaken: LPS Instrumental in 3D Modeling of the Acropolis We linked to several of Suzan Mazur’s posts relating to Robert [...]
More Roman Humour
Mary Beard continues to make the rounds talking about ancient humour, and it appears she was asked about who she believed was the funniest Roman. She decided it was Cicero (!) and you can read the Times coverage to find out why … I’m using this as an excuse to excerpt the chunk which shows [...]
Poseidon’s Back?
A few weeks ago we mentioned a post by Poseidon in the World Weekly News in which he claimed responsibility for what was going on in Australia. It seems that Poseidon has a regular column in that now-web-only publication, so if you want to catch up with the divinity-o-the-deep’s resurgence, here be his three columns [...]
Mary Beard and the Philogelos
Some good coverage of Mary Beard’s recent efforts on the Philogelos give us the opportunity to see what jokes the press is latching on to. The Post Chronicle — somewhat oddly, but conveniently — presents some of them as an image: The Telegraph adds: Another joke has its origins in 248AD when Rome held what [...]
The Return of Poseidon
According to the World Weekly News (which seems to still exist online), Poseidon is taking credit for the fires in Australia … hmmmmm THE RETURN OF POSEIDON
