Re: RV: Old English

Gzran Gkhawn (John Cowan):
> BP Jonsson wrote:
>
> > Good thing we Gothenburgers are so popular everywhere! ;-)
>
> ObScure: Ovid wasn't too happy during his sojourn among your countrymen,
> as I recall, but he made some good poetry of it....
Wherabouts did he sojourn among them?

> Another good poet, that 19th Century German Romantic (Sein oder Nichtsein,
> das ist hier die Frage, etc.) made a good pun about "Ovid among the Goths"
> but now that "Goth" has acquired the spelling pron. /goT/ in English rather
> than the historic /go:t/, it doesn't work any more... pity.
1. Could one also do puns about eggs, or is _Ovid_ susceptible only to sheep
puns? (I'm vaguely reminded also of "I'm like the Tiberius of a tragic Capri",
in a free translation of Baudelaire's "Je suis comme le roi d'un pays
pluvieux".)

2.
Me:     What did your brother give you for your birthday?
Spouse: A video.
Me:     Of what?
Spouse: Huh???
Me:     What did he give you a video of?
Spouse: Che cretino! He gave me the works of OVIDIO!


--And.