09-26-15 12:51 NANCY BACKUS wrote to ED VANCE about Re: Old movies
Howdy! Nancy, Joe and Daryl,

 NB> {at}MSGID: 
 -=> Quoting Ed Vance to Daryl Stout on 09-21-15  22:39 <=-

 >  DS> to pitch a fit about "The Rubyiat Of Omar Khayham"
as being "a smutty
 >  DS> book".
 >    Whenever I hear that, which is seldom, I'm reminded of Peabody's
 > "Improbable History" line from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
 >    Peabody is discussing this subject with Sherman who remarks, at the end
 > of the cartoon, about a ruby red ship in the harbour and Peabody asks,
 > "You ever heard of the ruby yacht of Omar Khayham?"  Groan.

 EV> I tried to find the word "Rubyiat" to see what it means,
What is it?

 NB> You probably couldn't find it because it wasn't spelled
 NB> right... should have been "Rubaiyat"... ;)  My dictionary has
 NB> it as "Poet. a four-line stanza, in iambic pentameter, rhyming
 NB> abab, abba, or aaba."  :)  What the dictionary didn't say was
 NB> that it was from Persian/Arabic poetry...

It seems like I am getting a EDucation in the English Language, here in
this echo and other places also.

I think I had heard the name Omar Khayyam mentioned somewhere when I
was in School, 3rd to 12th Grade, but I don't think I ever read
anything about Him or knew anything about who He was or what He did.

The Wordweb online dictionary didn't have Rubaiyat, it had rubai which
is a plant, but that isn't even close to meaning a poem.

Wordweb has a newer version that I haven't downloaded yet, maybe it has
added Rubaiyat to the list of words in the new free version if I get
the new version installed.

In a Search I did for the word, Wikipedia was in the Result Listing so
I went there to learn what I was missing in my not knowing anything
about The Rubaiyat.

Somewhere in the first few paragraphs I saw a Link to ruba'i, and was
surprised to see the illustration of one of those Four Line poems was
in the shape that resembled a Letter X or a Cross.

That struct me as being odd after reading about Omar Khayyam being
a high ranking person in the Muslim Faith back then.

I read a few verses of the poem and decided that I am in that group of
people who Daryl wrote about who felt like the poem is smutty.
I'm glad I didn't have to read The Rubaiyat when I was in School.

I had enought trouble with The Tale of Two Cities and Silas Marner in
the 10th Grade and didn't understand much of those two stories until
the next year when I had to take 10th Grade English over because I
flunked 10th Grade English when I was in the 10th Grade.

I passed it the second time it took it, and then I skipped over having
to read Ivanhoe by taking 11th Grade English in Summer School.

Summer School was only a few weeks, and there wasn't time to include
Ivanhoe it that short schedule.    PTL!    ;-)

Ed


... I don't make jokes.  I just watch the government and report the facts.
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