From dlupher@ups.edu Sun Mar 18 12:29:16 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id MAA70944 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:29:15 -0800 Received: from mail.ups.edu (main.ups.edu [192.124.98.219]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA23863 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:29:15 -0800 Received: from [207.207.116.53] (wyatt1dhcp53.ups.edu [207.207.116.53]) by mail.ups.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2IKTBZ27260 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:29:11 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: dlupher@mail.ups.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <3AB3AC0A.76971ECA@temple.edu> <001001c0af06$28011cc0$d70b86cc@seddon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:17:03 -0800 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Lupher Subject: Re: decline of classical knowledge: late-breaking report J.L.P. Butrica asked: >But did you catch the intermission feature earlier this season with the >clip from the Milton Cross days in which the venerable Mr Cross was heard >to refer to Publilius Syrus as Publius? Alas, a family chore made me miss that. A pity, for I actually miss the stentorian voice of good old Milton Cross. And I miss Edward Downes. And did you hear that a regular on the quiz, Boris Goldovsky, died a week or so ago? (To be honest, I'd assumed he'd died ages ago.) Prof. Butrica concludes with this rhetorical question: > How's that for pedantry?] Excellent, but I am shocked, *shocked* that only one person, a lurking old friend of mine, identified the error in my characterization of the Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz as "the yellow light on the end of the pier of true pedantry." As my friend pointed out, the light at the end of Daisy's dock is, of course, green. (Ah well, I shall console myself with the memory of the day my son, hearing me shout out the answers to the Met Quiz, declared, "Hey Dad, they should put *you* on that panel." A life of pedantry offers few rewards more gratifying than a comment like that.) David Lupher Classics Dept. Univ. of Puget Sound .