CUNY & Cornell, was Re: British Latin

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, John Cowan wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee scripsit:
> > CUNY is an abbreviation for...?  <puzzled look>
>
> The City University of New York, which is composed of about 20-odd
> 2-year and 4-year colleges in various parts of
> the city.  The oldest of these is City College,
> which I attended 1977-1980 (but didn't quite get a degree).
Ah, gotcha.  <Shaking head>  So many colleges...for the longest time I
was under the stupid impression that MIT was in Michigan...<squirm>
Probably because one of my friends went to U Michigan at Ann Arbor and
was an engineer, and my brain glitched.

> > Hey, at least it's a nice nifty Latin motto.  Cornell...<shaking head and
> > sighing>  It's all English to me.
>
> High above Cayuga's ditches
> Comes a mighty smell;
> Fifty thousand sons of bitches
> Call themselves Cornell!
>
> That was my father's version of the Cornell song -- he went
> to the University of Pennsylvania.   But my mother taught
> at Cornell in academic 1967-68, and I went to elementary
> school there.
ROTFL!  Well, if there's anyone from Harvard here, I could try
transcribing the lyrics to the Cayuga Waiters' "We Didn't Go to Harvard"
(to the tune of "We Didn't Light the Fire")....<G>

YHL