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WHAT I LEARNED TODAY IN LATIN:
mrs. pasquale:
"when sailors arrived off of ships to pompeii, they had been at sea for months. so of course, they had probably gotten a little lonely. in order to direct the incoming soldiers to the 'red-light district' of the city, those ingenious ancient italians devised a system. much like the painted footsteps of ronald mcdonald on the floor leading you to trans-fat heaven at a mcdonalds counter, the people of pompeii carved phallics pointing to the direction of the district onto the stones of the ground."
the class ended up discussing this for a good 20 minutes!
she even made poor mike look it up on google images online.
aha well. it beat taking a forms quiz.
mrs. pasquale:
"when sailors arrived off of ships to pompeii, they had been at sea for months. so of course, they had probably gotten a little lonely. in order to direct the incoming soldiers to the 'red-light district' of the city, those ingenious ancient italians devised a system. much like the painted footsteps of ronald mcdonald on the floor leading you to trans-fat heaven at a mcdonalds counter, the people of pompeii carved phallics pointing to the direction of the district onto the stones of the ground."
the class ended up discussing this for a good 20 minutes!
she even made poor mike look it up on google images online.
aha well. it beat taking a forms quiz.