Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio.
That's how you say "Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway." in Latin. Courtesy of MIT, you can learn how to say handy Latin phrases such as:
Link via Ironic Catholic
Previously on Neatorama: Latin You Should Know
Yankee Pot Roast, a blog of literary satire, has a great spoof on poet William Carlos Williams, assuming that the famous modernist poet is your really bad roommate. Not as bad as the nudist obsessive-compulsive insomniac roommate that I had in college, but pretty bad. Here's a sample:
I have eaten
the soy ice cream
that was in
the ice box
and which
you expressly asked
me
not to touch
Forgive me
it was so gross
I threw half of
it away
Link via Grow-A-Brain
Artist Mari Kasurinen creates My Little Pony models based upon Star Wars, DC Superheroes, Cthulhu, and other speculative fiction themes. Pictured above is the Leia pony, part of a collection of models from Star Wars. Link via Great White Snark
Need a hubby of quality? Through Mail Order Husbands, you can snag a top-tier bachelor like this one. Link via The Presurfer
Artist Tisha DeShields and her company Original Belly Works make decorative fiberglass shells from the protruding bellies of pregnant women. There's something especially beautiful about a very pregnant woman. But as my wife's nine months pregnant, I'm partial.
http://www.originalbellyworks.com/home.html via Yahoo News, where there's a video.
Hot or not? An Italian priest invites readers to decide:
An Italian priest says he is organising the world's first beauty pageant for nuns to erase a stereotype of them as being old and dour.
Antonio Rungi says The Miss Sister Italy online contest will start on his blog in September.
"Nuns are above all women and beauty is a gift from God," he told Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
