In the 2nd Century bce, there was a Phoenician city called "Sexi Firmum Iulium"

[Bucky]

this is the kind of stuff I'm not supposed to teach in class

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Maybe if you said it was a Russian city?????

[rug]

2. It didn't last as long as claimed.

[Thor_MN]

3. Wow, the ileum is all the way up into the small intestine...

That's really going for distance.

[LiberalElite]

4. You

misread it - it's Iulium not ileum.

[Thor_MN]

5. That's because one is in Latin...

and you don't seem to like plays on words...

[LiberalElite]

6. You don't know-

what the heck I like but nice try.

[Thor_MN]

7. I revise my assessment, from you don't seem to like, to you don't understand.

Was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt..

Might I suggest a nice Clinton bashing thread? We have a delightful variety that are certain to please your dour mood.

[Chan790]

8. That is true; it never stops being delightful and there is so much variety! :) n/t

[Thor_MN]

10. Is there an echo in here?

Feel free to chip in with some of you own words.

[Chan790]

11. :) Here are some words I like!

casuistry
echolocation
hullabaloo
jackanapes
jinglingly
kibitzer
obloquy
phantasmagoria
popinjay
scalawag
spicule
tintinnabulation
whirligig
williwaw
xiphophyllous
yuppify

[Thor_MN]

12. I was right. Nothing to say. nt

Have a good night.

[Chan790]

13. Moving goalposts.

You didn't ask for my thoughts, you asked for my words which I gave you. Of course I have many things to say. Whether I say them or not is largely incidental and unlikely to occur here for two reasons:

1.) The Lounge is not the right place for me to pontificate on all the ways I hate Hillary and reasons why--which is seemingly what you're asking me to do. There is an entire forum for that called GD ; if you want to know how and why, go read it there. I have great delight in telling Clinton supporters my opinion of their candidate and them...there is a time and place for that and neither is here and now.

2.) You seem like kind of a jerk. I'm not entirely sure that you are worth the conversational effort.

[Thor_MN]

14. OMG, you can actually put two sentences together!!

No, you got me all wrong, probably since I was not talking to you. I posted a (admittedly lame) joke. Someone who either lacked reading comprehension skills or a sense of humor tried to lecture me on what the OP said. They took offense when I pointed out that they didn't get the joke. I suggested posts that might appeal to their (lack of a) sense of humor.

And then you decided to stop in and offer your hate (your words).

No, I really don't care who you support, but I would prefer if you actually supported your choice, rather than just hated on another candidate.

I know you don't care, but I like all the front runners. Just can't stand the assholes who have nothing to offer but hate, I can't tell them apart from the Republicans, they just keep repeating the same things, over and over.

[Lionel Mandrake]

15. You should teach your students all about it.

While you're at it, you could explain that "Sexi Firmum Iulium" is what the Romans called the place, that the phrase is Latin, and that it has nothing to do with the English word "sexy". Any snickers are therefore unwarranted. Let any prospective censors chew on that.

One question: why "Iulium"? Did the ancestors of Julius Caesar have something to do with the place?

[Ron Obvious]

16. In the Dutch province of Friesland lies a town called Sexbierum

The story that it was named after the inhabitants' favourite pastimes of Sex, Beer, and Rum is apparently apocryphal.