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Simply put, it's just my daily world that I'm trying to sort out the only way I know how, through words.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
word origin: hermaphrodite
The term, hermaphrodite, meaning to have the sex organs of both a male and female derives from the Greek god and goddess, Hermes and Aphrodite. They gave birth to a son who ended up half man and half woman.
So does this mean when someone tells me to go "screw myself", they're accusing me of "hermaphroditiosity"?
ReplyDeleteOkay, for once, I have a few variations.
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hermafrodite - a hermaphrodite with a "fro"
Hermanphrofright - Herman Munster, if HE were a hermaphrodite
Mighty Hermaphodite - Woody Allen's next movie
hermathphrodite - a math teacher with this condition
HermaphRodizio Grill - a Brazialian restaurant that caters to the hermaphrodite crowd
Geothermaphrodite - a hermaphrodite who really enjoys visiting Old Faithful and hot springs
Da Wah HermaphroDitty - if Manfred Man was more than just a man
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Thank you. I needed that!
wow, i just got a headache reading through that whole comment.
ReplyDeleteP: Wow, that was a good list. Thourough.
ReplyDeleteI read it last night when I was very, very tired.
Much funnier this morning when I am more awake.
You so cleva!
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ReplyDeletevag: Yeah, he's good.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason a friend of mine called them "batwangers"
ReplyDeleteI never knew why.
If you were a hermaphrodite, you'd have twice the chances of getting laid! Everyone is fair game!
ReplyDeleteJeff - not sure I'd agree with you there. After all, some people will scorn the unknown!
ReplyDeleteNice list, puerileuwaite!
My question then becomes: Bulfinch or Hamilton?
ReplyDeleteI gotta say, I'm partial to Bulfinch since he was first, but good ol' Edith is ok too.
Gotta love those Greek mythology bedtime stories.
Py: I am here to help and inform.
ReplyDeleteno prob on falling behind. I am guilty of that with everyone right now.
Jeff: being a hermie is like being bi, it truly just opens up all the possibilities.
epix: then again, epix has a point.
Yeah, him: as someone who is in a myth class right now and studying ALL...ALL...the gods..they got a story for everyone and everything.
Haven't gotten to Edith, yet. Is she the Jewish goddess of all things musical?