April 28, 2000

10:09 PM

It's Penis Day at Wetlog, apparently. [ If you think only adults have penii, you might want to treat some of those links as adult content... ]
posted by baylink (13 comments total)

My favorite: Why The Internet Is Like A Penis. "It can be up or down. It's more fun when it's up, but it makes it hard to get any real work done."
posted by baylink at 10:14 PM on April 28, 2000

Just to be a pedant for a moment: if you want to provide the Latin plural of 'penis', it's penes. "penii" would be the plural of *penius. (Hey, how often does my masters come in handy while weblogging?)
posted by bjennings at 6:21 AM on April 29, 2000

Damn.

I like 'penii' better. Which root (no pun intended) would take that plural, Greek?
posted by baylink at 3:34 PM on April 29, 2000

No, dammit! There ain't nuthin what's etymologically sound you can do to make it 'penii'! '-us' singular goes to '-i' plural. In Greek it'd be sumpin competely diffurnt.
posted by EngineBeak at 5:10 PM on April 29, 2000

Greek plural would be phalloi. If it makes you feel any better, the plural of "genius" is "genii".
posted by bjennings at 5:30 PM on April 29, 2000

Basically, if the singular ends in "-ius", the plural is probably "-ii".
posted by bjennings at 5:31 PM on April 29, 2000

Gilded phaloi, nonetheless!
posted by EngineBeak at 5:34 PM on April 29, 2000

Greek - hmm anyone else know what "greek" is slang for? >;-)
posted by tomcosgrave at 8:31 PM on April 29, 2000

Well, then, Bill, how about this:

The Associated Press can suck my penius.
posted by baylink at 9:03 PM on April 29, 2000

There you go. :-)
posted by bjennings at 10:47 PM on April 29, 2000

geeks
posted by jbeaumont at 12:40 AM on April 30, 2000

penises. We're not in Latium now.
posted by holgate at 2:36 AM on April 30, 2000

I've been linked on metafilter three times now: the first two, I got about a dozen click thrus. This time I got nearly 100.
I now know what this crowd is really interested in!
posted by Neale at 7:40 PM on May 1, 2000