Sick transit glorious Monday?

[wanswheel]

[NKP guy]

Totally great pun, wanswheel!   ROFLMAO!

Remember when this was a papal term?

(and no, I don't mean paypal)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[wanswheel]

NKP, glad you like the pun, which is more than 50 years old, perhaps more than 100. The context isn’t entirely clear, but Brand Blandshard said it.

Excerpt from The American Oxonian, 1963

Blandshard was a visiting professor last fall at the University of Minnesota, taking Kierkegaard to pieces in that shrine of the great Dane. He recalls losing fifty dollars to a confidence man on his way to the Franconia in 1913, and quotes the comment of the boy who had to stay home on the holiday: "Sick transit, glorious Monday!”

Excerpt from Blandshard’s 1980 book

About the first of October 1913, I set out for Boston, from which the Cunarder Franconia was to take a party of Rhodes scholars to England. My first impression of the East was not happy, for, having to change trains at Albany, I was robbed of most of my summer earnings while waiting in the station. Boston partly made up for this, for I was able to visit, with due reverence, some of the cradles of American national life.

I cannot remember much of the voyage to Liverpool. I do remember the train ride to Oxford, the little locomotive—so unlike the black mammoths that I had seen puffing in and out of Cleveland—and the neatly hedged green fields that made England look like a great garden. As the train aproached Oxford, I looked eagerly out of the windows; there, sure enough, were its spires and towers in the misty distance, and my heart began to beat faster. At the station I took a horse-drawn hansom cab, and asked the driver to take me to Merton College.

[Firelock76]

The best use of the pun has to be the trolley video outfit that calls itself "Transit Gloria Mundi!"

The original, of course is "Sic transit gloria mundi," or, "Thus passes worldly glory."

Down here in Virginia we've got "Sic Semper Tyrannis!" as a state motto, but that's another matter entirely.