reddpen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 3:18 am
I'll be the first to grouse that "Brass in Pocket" isn't followed by a parenthetical "(I'm Special)" on any release of the first Pretenders album that I've ever seen.
Re FJ, my limited Latin got me eggs but not green, so I tried Horton Hatches the Egg. Can someone--ideally John Cleese in a centurion costume--explain why the title uses two different spellings for "green"--something to do with singular vs. plural maybe?
The last time I studied Latin, the Berlin Wall had just fallen, so you'll just have to bear with my non-costumed explanation. I imagine it has to do with the gender/number of ova (plural, feminine - ovum is singular) and perna (singular, feminine).
But attempting to look this up seems problematic. I'm getting "virentis" as plural, and "virens" as singular, in the nominative case. I can't find either of those two forms.
All this, and I got stumped on FJ! - I had the "ova" as egg, but the four word phrase with a word repeated got to me. I was being too literal - I thought of "Green Eggs and Ham", but tossed it because there was no "et" or "atque" in the title - I was expecting a word-for-word (or, verbatim) translation, I guess.
Because of that, I panicked outside of the disco. I decided to solve it as if it were a cryptogram - A B, A C, since the leading words in each sentence were of the same form. I was thinking of "One fish, two fish", but I knew "verdant" was green, not a red or blue fish. And I couldn't get to the full title in time, so I had "red egg, green egg".
Yes, we really needed that Purell clue, especially now. Actually, -I- needed Purell today. I took my dad to the ophtho - used the bathroom, and BOTH sinks were out of soap. Mentioned it to the person at the front desk, and she let me use a sink behind her. I touched THREE DOORS without washing my hands. I mentioned that she might want to call maintenance. An hour later, same thing happened to my dad as we left. Ick.