OFF: What's happening??

[mike c]

 And just for the name of summer heat in the USA, and that I have been
around here long enough to say that Jon's good-  don't think he meant to do
a flame thrower-just a chatic hello-   I'll be a Coleman and say that
according to my outdated dictionary, 'philologist' is an "older name" for
'linguist'. maybe Stephe is a pro piglatinguist (god bless TV!!!) (and you
Stephe!!  good cheer and Bitburger wishes here)

<<My 3 cents worth:
remember reading somewhere years ago that the british navy used the acronym
f.u.c.k.(for unlawful carnal knowledge)when the flogged sailors for homosexual
acts...(back in the 18th-19th centuries)>>
tim

<<Stephen Lindas wrote:
 HI JON, I saw a special on telly, where they were discussing the origin of
 the word. They claimed it was a latin word for animals fornicating. The pope
 thing was a smart ass remark. You don't really know me, but I am very much
 against organized religion. I think it keeps people from the experience of
god. I'm not a plilologist, although I do like to read alot. Somethings I
say may be wrong. My truth may be completely opposite to yours. Thank you
for the information, though. Good luck with your ph.d. CHEERS STEPHE>>


 << You ain't no philologist, Stephe, it's Anglo-Saxon and there's
  only ever been one English Pope. Who did, I suspect, nonetheless speak
  Latin.

  This is another way of saying hullo, I'm still signed up but
  having a lot of trouble finding time for e-mail just at the moment, but
  expect me to recover this situation fairly sharply in October if not
  before as the British Academy have finally seen the path of light and
 ruith and given me fudning for my Ph.D. so I shall be able to get back to
  the Vale of Academe full-time at which point I may even get up-to-date
  with BOC-L mail. You have been warned :-) Yours,>>
  Jon