small note - in singing old german "Studentenlieder" use Church Latin pronunciation - ie - kway mutahtsio for Quae mutatio

@ Calonian: Sane! LOL

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> @ Calonian: Sane! LOL

Ave! atque Vale! to this thread -

"The king should have sent his embalmers," opined Grotara.

Okay, you wise guys! Picking on a poor, bereft CAS collector. LOL

Marsh, I feel your pain. I have a huge Lovecraft, Barlow and CAS collection (Letters, post cards, etc.,) and I wouldn't know what I'd do if I lived to see one fall. I leave my collection in acidic free slip covers with acid free backing. I store them in a cool, dark plays and keep them out of sunlight always. And to be doubly sure I put them all in a museum quality box. Your local art store should sell all these items.

@OConnor,CD: I should have known, but I was young and foolish (a not wholly undesirable state).

Goodbye, cruel world!

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Being German and a former Waffenstudent myself, I am familiar with the song you quoted from. Actually, "rerum" is genitivus pluralis of "res", meaning "the thing" but sometimes also "the cause". "Res publica", the public thing or publc cause, is, of course, the Latin word for "republic", i.e. a democratic state).

Thus, "Oh quae mutatio rerum" can be translated as "Oh, how things have changed".

"Jerum", however, is believed to have derived from "Jesus" or "Jesu". "Oh jerum" can be translated as "My oh my", invoking but not actually saying the name of God in a slightly inappropriate situation.