Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Inside joke-- the emoticon you hear


WIKIPEDIA:   In medieval Latin, a vogue for scholarly obscenity led to a perception of the dactyl, a metrical unit of verse represented — ‿ ‿, as an image of the penis, with the long syllable (longum) the shaft and the two short syllables (breves) the testicles.  The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams
  — ‿ ‿

The leaned instructor taps on his podium to illustrate the dactylic meter-- "Shave and a haircut..." while the class is ROFL their asses off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_university



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