Phi E Delta HMA?

[Omniscient]

Well, It would help if you distinguished between the Greek Letters and the standard ones.

Are you familiar with the full Greek alphabet?

Did it read:

Phi Epsilon Delta - Eta Mu Alpha, or
Phi Sigma Delta - H.M.A., or some other grouping and spacing? Are we talking all capitals like a Fraternity? Or a mathmatical formula? More information is needed.

To my knowledge there is no Frat named Phi Epsilon Delta. You'l have to give me more to work with.

[phouka]

Please excuse the lack of Greek letters. I don't know my keyboard that well. One of the cars in the parking lot had this bumper sticker:

Phi E Delta HMA
It's not just a good idea, it's the law.

I'm guessing it's some sort of physical law, like gravity or relativity, but I've never seen it before. Can anyone clue me in?

[phouka]

Omni, I wish i knew how to type Greek letters, but I'm at a loss. The bumper sticker I saw looked something like this:

OEV HMA
It's not just a good idea. It's the law.

The O was the Greek letter Phi (an "O" with a horizontal bar floating in the middle of the letter).

The V was actually (now that I recall my Greek alphabet better) Lambda (an inverted V).

This is really bugging me, so whatever help you can give would be appreciated.

[Olentzero]

No, the letter 'O' with a horizontal bar in the center is "theta". It might be the word 'thelima'? Biblical type folks, any ideas? Will check my Gr>Eng dictionary when I get home tonight.

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Cave Diem! Carpe Canem!

[Olentzero]

runs back in, clutching a piece of paper and waving it wildly about
IgotitIgotitIgotit!!!!

Just threw 'thelima' into Google and got this handy little page:
http://organisationen.freepage.de/credobox/vateruns.htm
which is the "Our Father" in several different languages. In the Greek version, we get this line:
genithito to thelima su

which translates as "Thy will be done."

So the bumper sticker you saw on the car reads as follows:

"The Will of God - it's not just a good idea, it's the law."

eh... if you're into that kind of thing, I guess.

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Cave Diem! Carpe Canem!

[phouka]

Oh.

And here I thought it was cool physics thing. Instead it's just some fundie take-off of the original relativity joke.

Well, thanks for the effort, guys. I do appreciate it.