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Funny Paper said

Egroeg Evoli said
My favorite Beatles album cover is the White Album ‘s cover. I know that might seem a bit strange, but I like it because it’s so plain. You’d get the impression that the music would be plain, too, but it’s anything but plain. The cover is like a mask for the collection of wonderfully diverse music that is the White Album .

My second favorite is the cover of the Blue (and possibly Red; I don’t know, I don’t have it) Album because they’re looking down while standing on the balcony when they’re older, and inside there’s the same picture, but it’s of the younger Beatles. I don’t know if this is what it looks like in the UK or anywhere besides the US, and I have the CD, not the record (was there even a record?). But I like whatever version I have.

By the way, I don’t know if John knew this at the time, but the word “album” is, without having to alter any spelling, a Latin word that means literally “white” and specifically meant to modify some neuter noun.  Latin like a lot of languages had three cases — neuter, masculine and feminine, usually with -um, -us and -a endings, respectively.  So here, it would be album/albus/alba.  The adjective “album” probably became a noun (like a book or album of pages or photographs for example) to denote a “blank” notebook or journal (“blank” also meaning “white” originally).

Most English words derived from Latin have altered the spelling, but a few retain the original — like “album” or “magnum” or “tractor” or “doctor” or “agenda” or “item”, etc.)

 

I used to follow Latin at school, but I didn’t know this! It’s certainly interesting and funny.

meanmistermustard said
This forum has its very own Two Virgins smiley.  

 

I wonder if this post should be age-restricted.

Luckily I don’t think we have any posters that might be shocked by that, and ask their parents some akward questions… Though who knows who the mysterious ”guests” are….?

I think I’m in the minority by actually liking that cover. Well, I say like. I mean, I wouldn’t want to stare at it for too long, but I like being open. We all have genitals, and yet we insist on not mentioning it. Why?

Scarily its deemed more acceptable by some to show someone’s brain getting beaten out of their head than a 3 second clip of a willy.

That’s what I don’t get. It seems to me that parents are quite laidback about exposing their kids to violence, and yet they want to keep the facts of life from them for as long as possible…. Should it not be the other way around?