During Games 1 and 2, Ainge shuttled between the locker room, coach Looking “vomitory” up in the online Googling original When we saw it this morning in the Boston Globe Sports section, we thought it was a typo. It still amazes us that after 45 years of doing crossword puzzles and playing Scrabble (not to mention almost 30 years of … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/vomitorio.jpg\")
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\n we saw it this morning in the Boston
\n Globe Sports section<\/a>, we thought it was a typo. It
\n still amazes us that after 45 years of doing crossword puzzles and
\n playing Scrabble (not to mention almost 30 years of teaching English),
\n there are words as, shall we say intriguing, which we have never
\n even heard of, other than as an affectionate nickname
\n for the bushes outside our old Fraternity House.<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\n Doc Rivers’s office, the vomitories<\/strong> on both ends of the court, and seats
\n where friends and family sat. He was nowhere to be found on the Jumbotron. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n dictionary<\/a> revealed its existence, as well as it’s " Etymology:
\n Late Latin vomitorium, from Latin vomere; from its disgorging the spectators:
\n an entrance piercing the banks of seats of a theater, amphitheater, or
\n stadium.” Obviously Roman in origin, as the original vomitories were undoubtedly in the Collesium, from whence the gladiators, Christians and lions inevitably errupted.<\/p>\n
\n "Vomitory" produced the icing on the cake; a German
\n heavymetal band<\/a> by the same name, rubbing our faces in it, so to
\n speak.
\n Picture above. We can’t wait to spring this one on our unsuspecting Mom
\n during a late-night Scrabble showdown…. <\/i> <\/p>\n
\n column<\/a> from the Boston Globe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"