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?
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.
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.
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.
Cave Diem! Carpe Canem!
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:
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.
Cave Diem! Carpe Canem!
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.