![]() 28 Late to a Harvard Lampoon meeting? : MISSING THE MOCK (from “missing the mark”) It simply passes “by operation of law”, “ipso jure”. The title passes to the living person, without that person having to do anything. The example given is what happens to a property held in joint tenancy when one person dies. I am informed by a blog reader that the term refers to a legal consequence that takes place without the need for a beneficiary to take action. “Ipso jure” is Latin for “by operation of law”. 25 _ jure (by the law itself: Lat.) : IPSO The band has performed with many celebrities, and is the only college band to have two platinum records. The USC marching band is very famous as well, and is known as the “Spirit of Troy”. USC Trojans have won more Olympic medals than the students of any other university in the world. ![]() Apart from its excellent academic record, USC is known for the success of its athletic program. The University of Southern California (USC) is a private school in Los Angeles. with the most Pac-12 football championships : USC The initialism “KP” is US military slang that stands for either “kitchen police” or “kitchen patrol”. 21 Doing some mess hall duty, in army lingo : ON KP “Alum” is an informal term used for either an alumna or alumnus. The term comes into English from Latin, in which an alumnus is a foster-son or pupil. The female form is “alumna” (plural “alumnae”). 19 Grads, now : ALUMSĪn alumnus (plural “alumni”) is a graduate or former student of a school or college. The rideshare service Uber takes its name from the English colloquial word “uber” meaning “super, topmost”, which in turn comes from the German “über” meaning “above”. “The Odyssey”, also attributed to Homer, is sometimes described as a sequel to “Iliad”. ![]() “Iliad” is an epic poem by the Greek poet Homer that tells the story of the ten-year siege of “Ilium” (i.e. Walgreens claims to have introduced the malted milkshake, back in 1922. “Penne” is the plural of “penna”, the Italian for “feather, quill”. For example, ziti is a particularly large and long tube with square-cut ends. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies AcrossĬylindrical pasta is known in general as “penne”, and there are many variants.
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