Like some of these, many of which are NSFW? For that reason, I’ll spoiler the link.
Nor have I. And now I feel deprived - I was in the top 5% of my high school class.
An Indian doughnut with cumin in Chorlton-cum -Hardy, or Cumbria or Cumbernauld.
I know I’m going to feel stupid soon, but I don’t understand what is wrong with “do the right thing” .
Yes it did say summa cum laude, but to be fair, it did have a picture of a massive cock on there too.
Haven’t you ever heard of spice cake?
It’s yummy! ![]()
Huh, there’s a chain of Christian bookstores in South Africa called CUM Books.
It was founded in 1939 by Afrikaans speakers, and CUM stands for Christelike Uitgewers Maatskappy - Christian Publishers Company. They pronounce it ‘coom’.
They’ve never bothered to change it, though, and you can see the name prominently displayed in many shopping malls in South Africa.
:eek:
I hope these guys never need a corporate cake.
Serious question: When did “cum” become a dirty word? Or, when did the sexual connotation become common enough that it “tainted” the innocent usage of “cum” in a significant number of people’s minds?
The sexual meaning of “come” goes back to the 1600s. I’m not sure when “cum” became a common spelling, but I recall it from at least the late 1960s.
Were there any jokes at the time of the 1973 or 1983 release of “Cum on Feel the Noize”? I was too young to have heard them if there were. Or was it simply an alternate spelling that sometimes, but hardly always, meant something sexual?
They should have ordered the “irrumabo ego vos” cake; sounds less problematic.
1983, yeah. In fact my sheltered lifestyle prevented me from knowing the slang meaning of “cum”, which my friends were more than happy to clue me in on.
I was going to make the “summa come loudly” joke but someone else beat me to it. As far as the "dean’s list " goes, I like to tell folks I made the dean’s other list.
Actually I had understood the line that she was told something, didn’t see how that policy would apply to her order, finished giving the instructions, and the order was accepted. And then the software did its edit, without triggering a notification that such was being done.
The software should reject a cake that does not pass its filter and only decorate it with hyphens for the censored word if such has been explicitly sign off as acceptable to the customer.
Reminds me of a FOAF who ordered, via an online system, a custom-engraved gold pendant with something like “Chris & Sally” on it - when it turned up, it actually said:
Chris
&
Sally
I see the home-schooled “Summa cum” kid had a 4.89 GPA. Rather impressive, no? Nobody at my high school broke the 4.0 barrier. “Christian-based home schools” must be the way to go! MAGA!!
The Double-Secret Probation list? ![]()
Lots of schools (real schools, accredited & everything, with their own building & teachers who aren’t related to the students) have moved to 5.0 based GPA. No idea why.
Grade inflation. The first ones got their mediocre students to pass for good ones, but eventually schools down the pipeline from them will start correcting for it.
It’s also a way to give bonus points for taking harder classes, AP or not, by giving them higher weighting factors. Without that, someone who took only the easiest classes can have a higher GPA than someone who took the challenging ones.