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De Mediis (Rebus)

The RogueClassicist had a post on the phrase in medias res yesterday, and suggested off-the-cuff that "In Media Res" would be a good name for a blog.  I, of course, misread, didn't get the joke, etc., and went off to find a blog with the name "In Medias Res"; so now, suitably chastened, I have gone off a second time, and found the blog "In Media Res" (with the intentional play on "media").

It galls me, however, that the phrase in media res gets about 1/4 of the number of Google hits received by the correct in medias res (26,000:105,000)--I don't think all those thousands are making the same wordplay...And unfortunately, one of those 26,000 hits is a blog entry for a French enterprise devoted to bringing the world Greek and Latin quotations one day at a time...There was further discussion of the phrase in a long-ish comment thread for a post on useful Latin expressions at the Mormon blog Times & Seasons (hence quite a few comments on why Latin is relevant for Mormonism), which thread also yielded the final fruit of my "research"--a naughty little limerick quoted by a commenter:

An unfortunate fellow named Rex
Had diminutive organs of sex.
When charged with exposure,
He replied with composure:
"De minimis non curat lex."

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