What Tastes So Good?
It’s no secret that I am a classics student; I’ve talked about it on my blog several times, although in different forms. In September I noticed that Greek myth was like madlibs. In October I spoke about the books on my bookshelf and mentioned all my classics books. More recently I commented about one of the most… interesting myths I learned about. You know the one. Minos and his “little problem”.
And of course, I have started a new trend called “lolmyths” (more are coming. Especially since we have discovered the Latin for “do not want”).
But with my general classics geekery, you can imagine that my myth and storytelling paper is an interesting one. It’s also one paper where I do not mind speaking up and answering questions.
Lecturer: (speaking on Procne and Philomela) And then what did he do when she said no?
Me: He cut out her tongue!
Lecturer: And?
Me: And locked her away!
Lecturer: And?
Me: Told his wife her sister was dead!
Lecturer: And?
Me: I dunno.
Lecturer: And he raped her!
Me: Well, duh.
Later:
Lecturer: “And what did she do to her son?”
Student: “She killed him?”
Lecturer: And?
Me: And cooked him and served him to his father! *is grinning like an idiot from the back row*
Now, I know that Philomela is one of my favourite myths. But come on. Different times, people!
Lolmyths
In a continuation of classics weirdness in the vein of Minos and the STD from Hell, I bring to you the creation of something brand new: lolmyths.
When a friend of mine in my myth and storytelling class mentioned that today’s case files were about Pelops, my reaction was to go, “Nom nom nom.”
Now, she did know about lolspeak, but just not that I was referring to Pelops being killed and cooked and then served to the gods. When I explained the story the light went on and we had a good laugh through most of the lecture (like we normally do, because that paper is hilarious).
As we were leaving I suggested that I should macro some famous scenes from classical myth. For the lulz, of course. And thus we have Kronos going “nom nom nom”.
I now need to make one from like the Iliad with “epic fail”.
No need to point out I am a geek, peeps.
