*sniffle*

[azurelunatic]

You know what's sad?

I was so boggled by the duck penis that I failed to notice that it was discovered....

...at home.

UAF is *home*. ...Whenever Fairbanks makes the news, I get somewhat sniffly. That's where my father used to work. That's where I used to hang out. Hell, that's where I let Shawn borrow my virginity. (He promptly lost it.) ...Home.

...The home of 42.5 cm duck penii, too, evidently.

Comments

[lightningstorm.livejournal.com]

I have to say that's a pretty impressive duck penis.

[azurelunatic]

Yep.

[dawnjosephine.livejournal.com]

*boggles at the duck penis pic*
Gah... there are no words.
*boggles some more*

Every time I hear about Fairbanks, the first thought that will pop into my mind from now on is, "Home of the Incredibly Long and Spiraled Duck Penis".

[azurelunatic]

Scary, isn't it?

Latin wankery

[boojum.livejournal.com]

"Penii" is not the plural. "Penes" is the plural. The whole -i thing is being vastly overly blown: many words which end with -us are second declension and thus are pluralized by replacing the -us with -i, but there are other Latin plural endings. "Virus" should not deal with -i; it's one of the wacky fourth-declension (or fifth-declension. I don't remember which is the 'u'-declension/) words and was a mass noun, so would have had some wacky plural ending involving 'u' had it ever been pluralized by the Romans, which it wasn't, so it has to be pluralized in English into "viruses". (If it were a second-declension masculine noun, it would pluralize into "viri" anyway, not "virii".)

--sleep-depped Latin geek

Re: Latin wankery

[azurelunatic]

I must learn Latin at *some* point. The only Latin I've ever had is the various roots, so my declensions are nonexistant.