Octopussies - Hoi Polloi - April Fool

[Catlady]

MC Crusty wrote:
> The multiple of "octopus"  is "octopi", not "octopuses".

I was desperate to reply "It's octopodes", but a whole bunch of people
beat me to it. oc-to-po-deees

Weird plurals -- the plural of crisis (crice - is) is crises (crice -
seas), the plural of basis (base - is) is bases (base -seas), but the
same spelling 'bases' (base iz) is the plural of 'base'. Was 'base'
back-formed from base- seas?

Rachel wrote:
> OK....I read this TOTALLY wrong.  I saw "Octopus, octopi, octoPORN"

I have a book that has a print of a 19th century ink drawing which
depicts, with artistic beauty and anatomic explicitness, a Very Large
octopus (who does not appear to be disturbed by being out of water)
raping an unconscious woman.

Jen wrote:
> It's as silly as becoming incensed with those who say 'the hoi
> polloi', on the grounds that 'hoi' already means 'the' in Greek.

Shall we meet at the La Brea Tar Pits?

Al (does the handle 'hamster' mean you do ham radio?) wrote:
> before she realised she'd been had - because when the nice man on the
> radio says it's Friday, it's Friday.

My friend Lee tells the story of her holiday in England -- she went to
visit the James Clerk Maxwell Museum and the ticket-taker told her that
it was closed, it is only open on Tuesday and Thursday, and she said
"But today is Thursday!" and the man said it wasn't.... she happened to
have picked up a copy of the TIMES and showed him the masthead "See, the
paper says it's Thursday". The man admitted that the TIMES can't be
wrong and said "Oh my god, I turned away three other couples already
today!"

BTW, does anyone know the ethnicity of the surname Hooch? Maybe Irish?
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