[Magdalen] cisgender???

[Jay Weigel]

Clear as mud, huh? Okay, I know this is a serious discussion, but all of a
sudden I'm reminded of a song, and it made me giggle.......Harry
Belafonte's famous "Man Piaba", which might or might not be appropriate to
this discussion.

MAN PIABA

When I was a lad of three-foot-three
Certain questions occurred to me,
So I asked me father quite seriously
To tell me the story 'bout the bird and bee.
He stammered and he stuttered pathetically
And this is what he said to me.

He said, "The woman piaba and the man piaba
and the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass,
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm,
And the famous grandy scratch scratch.

It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
And the confusion made the brain go 'round.
I went and ask a good friend of mine,
Known to the world as Albert Einstein.
He said "Son, from the beginning of time and creativity
There existed the force of relativity
Pi r square and a minus ten means a routine only when
The solar system in one light year
Make the Hayden planetarium disappear
So if Mt Everest doesn't move
I am positive that it will prove

That the woman piaba and the man piaba
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass,
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm,
And the famous grandy scratch scratch.

It was clear as mud but it covered the ground
And the confusion made the brain go 'round.
I grabbed a boat and went abroad
In Baden Baden asked Sigmund Freud
He said "Son, from your sad face remove the grouch
Put the body down up on the couch
I can see from your frustration a neurotic sublimation
Hey love and hate is psychosomatic
Your Rorsach shows that you're a peri pathetic
It all started with a broken sibling
In the words of the famous Rudyard Kipling

That the woman piaba and the man piaba
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass,
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm,
And the famous grandy scratch scratch.

Well I traveled far and I traveled wide
And I don't even have me self a bride
All the great men upon this earth
Have confused me since my birth
I've been over land and been over sea
Trying to find answer 'bout the bird and bee
But now that I am ninety three
I don't give a darn you see

If the woman piaba and the man piaba
And the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass,
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm,
And the famous grandy scratch scratch

Or you can listen to it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvN6-RK66Bo


On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> I understand it from organic chemistry, as in trans fat.  It has to do
> with same-side (cis) or opposite side (trans).  Think next-door or
> kitty-corner.
>
> Clear as mud, right? (But Chad will get it.)
>
> Molly
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>
> > On Jun 14, 2016, at 1:32 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > My Latin teachers, now conjugating in heaven, would have pronounced this
> > word "kiss." I understand the church Latin people have prevailed,
> however,
> > so it's probably pronounced "siss" or something.
> > -M
> >
> >
> >> On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> If you spoke Latin (!)
> >> it's the opposite of trans.
> >>
> >>
>
>