Things that only happen in university towns

[tree_and_leaf]

Coming out of the lunchtime Mass, I was engaged in conversation about codicology by one of the other parishioners, and learned how to find out what part of a goat a given piece of parchment comes from (there's a dark mark down its spine and in its oxters, apparently).

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[tree_and_leaf]

*g* It's just Scots for armpits (if goats have armpits, but you know the part of the beast I mean....)