Humor

[David Lininger <tss003@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

Colleagues:

Did any of you see this last week? I got it from another list I'm on at home.

William Safire's column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/opinion/19SAFI.html

"The 250th birthday party for James Madison, 'father of the Constitution,'
took place this past weekend in the Library of Congress annex named after
him. When I asked what the word was for a 250th anniversary, the
Librarian, James Billington, instantly coined one, 'quadrimillennial.'
That neologism could mean 4,000 years, not one-quarter of a millennium,
but Billington was signaling that American history was no longer to be
limited to multiples of mere centennials; rather, this republic deserves
the long view of fractions of millennia."

We live in a thousand year, er, republic?
possis etiam: millennium quadrantarium
That sounds more like Auden's "low, dishonest decade" raised to the third
power.

Christian Kopff
University of Colorado, Boulder
kopff@spot.colorado.edu

David Lininger (kb0zke), LMS
Hickory County R-1 Schools
Rt 1, Box 838
Urbana, MO 65767
(417) 993-4226
mailto: tss003@mail.connect.more.net

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