[Magdalen] cisgender???

[Jay Weigel]

No, I copied it from the YouTube site......but I do remember a good bit of
it, for reasons I hesitate to explain <g>

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >>
>