Canes, Corporal Punishment and Latin at School
I don't know what your views are on caning and corporal punishment - outside the bedroom that is!
Sadly (?) I'm a bit vanilla in this respect - so it's not going to be that kind of post!
Now you may well ask what this section of Virgil in the original Latin ...
Section of Virgil... has to do with a caning situation at school.
Well, I remember we'd just declined a noun (I think it was in fact 'mensa' or table) ...
... chanting out the various forms in the approved monotone.
And had gone on to translate a passage from the account of Caesar's conquest of Gaulle (modern day France). When I had the irresistible urge to pass a note to a friend ... and did and did get caught ... by Mr Harwood!
The crooked finger had me quickly to his desk at the front of the class. Where I was informed that I was to be punished (no surprise) but that I could choose the kind I was to experience (surprise!).
Not just a little sadistically, I was then conducted to a little cupboard which, opened, revealed six canes - on hooks, in two rows - three in each! Mr Harwood then proceeded to name each and describe its physical characteristics ... along with the specific experience of being punished with it:
This is Mr Whippy - he's long and thin and ... stings!
Now this one is Mr Knobbly - he's fat and rigid so the pain is duller but is spread out over a wider area.
Etc
Curiously, I've quite forgotten the caning itself!
So let's turn to some happier Latin experiences:
Don't you think?
Mr Harwood. Are you an Old Sydneian, Nick?
ReplyDeleteWhere Be Blond Guys?
ReplyDeleteHugs, missed you while I was all out of my own PC and blog on. Altius & and Erect(i?)us and all that latin. I love me a living tongue for reasons that may pertain to the posted Latin I didn't relate to except by concentrating on small areas of the pic and virtually no words of the dead Thing ;)
foucauldian discipline and punish...
ReplyDeleteI want those plaid boxers.
ReplyDeleteAlan down in Florida
hey mmonk
ReplyDeletethe more the better?
cya
nick
LOL - you made me remember, yet again when I was a youngen, being spanked with the paddle in school and given the choice between having the teach hit my hand (ouch!) with it or having him/her spank my ole butt!! Talk about tough decisions!! lol
ReplyDeleteI sure would love to be spanked, poked, and prodded with that cock of that first guy!
hey greg
ReplyDeletebet you did an oliver twist when paddled on the butt:
'please, can i have some more!'
come on, confess - LOL
hey pete
ReplyDeletehugs and more hugs back
and i love a living tongue too - but for perhaps altogether other reasons!
glad that u aren't puterless now - a sad and sorry state for anyone
nick
Arms and the man I sing! And that's about the beginning and the end of my Latin--and I wouldn't even know that much if it weren't for ninth-grade Vergil in translation.
ReplyDeleteIt's not a bad motto for some of us bloggers, though!
hey keith
ReplyDeletethink i did bout 4 years of it - i was at a very reactionary school - you were lucky to escape with less
'arms and the man i sing' sounds like the title of a post - i'll get to work!
I was thinking the same thing--if I ever do a post that concentrates on guys with fabulous biceps and shoulders! : )
ReplyDeletedon't know why i haven't done more arms and shoulders posts - cos they are the things you grab onto first ... and should be memorable as a great beginning - if what follows is hot!
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