Yesterday I quoted a line from the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare."
Many years ago, when I was a young faculty member teaching a night school class in geometry to eke out the family finances, I walked into my classroom one evening and found chalked on the board, "You kids alone have looked on beauty bare."
I recognized the handwriting. It was my colleague Frank R. of the English department in his usual punning mode.
Which prompted a few rejoinders from me:
You, Kidd, alone have looked on booty bare.
And the not quite so punny...
The Beast alone has looked on Beauty bare.
