[Magdalen] cisgender???

[Grace Cangialosi]

Good Lord, Jay...did you write that out from memory???

> On Jun 15, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>>