From mcmahon@mail.lemoyne.edu Sat Apr 21 14:00:53 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3LL0n9111736 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:00:49 -0700 Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3LL0nb00310 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:00:49 -0700 Received: from mail.lemoyne.edu (1Cust73.tnt2.syracuse.ny.da.uu.net [63.21.189.73]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27061 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3AE1F59C.FD9E074C@mail.lemoyne.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:03:24 -0400 From: "John M. McMahon" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: swimming moth? References: <200104210157.f3L1vQg25138@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> <000d01c0ca69$1586b360$baaa3e81@prometheus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "James M. Pfundstein" signed off as: > JM("Mothra")P Warning: minimal classical content ... There's an interesting (but pretty worthless) local classical connection here in Syracuse wrt the aforementioned giant moth, one that shows a) a faint remebrance of things classical and b) an imperfect knowledge of the cinematic genre in which such natural aberrations as Mothra play(ed) an important role. To wit: At Syracuse Unversity access to the UNIX is through several systems(?) -- tech folks can help me out here with the correct terminology; I'm happy just to hit keys -- that are named after the "stars" of the much beloved (by me and my kids at least) Japanese monster movie: Rodan, Mothra, and Gamera being the most recognizable. A fourth is named (note obligatory classical content) Hydra. One types in one of these names at the $ prompt. The last name, for consistency's sake, *should* be Ghidra/Ghidora ("The Three-Headed Monster" -- also known in another flick as "Monster X"), but I guess the folks who chose the names mistook the snaky-necked, flying dragon for the more familar classical Hydra. (What's a few heads here and there, I suppose.) BTW, the last I saw/heard of Ghidra/Ghidora was when he(?) was confronted by Godzilla, Rodan, and Mothra (in caterpillar form), who were banding together to save the earth from the villain. Our lepidopteran heroine, having swum from her island home, first spun pupal silk all over Ghidra/Ghidora to tie him(?) up, then Rodan dropped huge boulders on him(?) to daze him, and, in the final, stirring *coup de grace*, Godzilla kicked the sinister intruder back to the planet Jupiter whence he(?) came. Anyway, check this out: http://svetovich.tripod.com/Mothra.htm And this: http://www.rscreations.com/ts/ghidra1.jpg Showing real evidence of a wasted youth/adulthood and even more evidence of poor parenting skills, John McMahon Le Moyne College .