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Jim Lohmar
@jimlohmar.bsky.social
senior greek & latin lecturer at college of charleston and sometime writer & editor. he/his/him. email: jimlohmar@gmail.com
@brendelbored.bsky.social i’m only just now learning that you’re a professional football player???
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
me, teaching the latin passive voice of the verb facio, facere:
October 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
taught in the ole miss hoodie today. had to explain college passing strategy inside the opponent’s 40 to a classroom of college freshman at a university with no college football team. “yeah kiffin’s just gonna call one for the end zone”
October 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
got one east of downtown too
September 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
i got the most insane unknown rando text this morning 14 minutes before my first class
September 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
wow michael penix with real effort on that last play
September 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
i hope whoever at @merriam-webster.com wrote the etymology entry for “jawn” comes from philly
September 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
August 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
my gag in class when a student asks a sharp question about an arcane point of greek or latin grammar that defies explanation is to blurt “i dunno” but the version of “i dunno” that doesn’t include consonants. today i asked them to spell a dr. lohmar “i dunno”
June 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
🚨 CHARLESTON 🚨 HEADS UP

NON EMPLOYEES ARE NOT ALLOWED IN KITCHEN OR BACK OF HOUSE AREAS

KEEP ICE OUT OF OUR RESTAURANTS
June 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
starting the summer reading regimen of comparative greek and latin grammar alongside the french, german, and italian dictionaries tomorrow
May 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
my buddy has belatedly decided to get tattoos, but only tattoos of bobby hill. he now has bobby hill as the buddha and bobby hill as the antichrist
May 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
1. horace never said this

2. ovid says it in his autobiography quoting his father, who remarks that poetry is not a lucrative profession
April 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
ovid tells us that aurora goddess of the dawn wears a saffron colored gown, and saffron runs the whole color spectrum from purple to yellow-orange. after tonight’s charleston storm aurora paid us a cameo visit. looking great babe
March 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
we are currently clean on opsec
March 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
i’m teaching our greek students plato’s “apology of socrates” & any time socrates uses the verb άπολογέομαι or the noun άπολογία i throw myself a party in class that HE SAID THE NAME OF THE MOVIE! students made me a shirt and i’m dead (that’s the cover of our textbook edited for lohmar’s dumb joke).
March 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
March 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
a lovely addition to @davidjroth.bsky.social's menagerie of "sam altman photos where he visibly has soiled himself" www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...
February 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
the onion has broken contain
February 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
presenting to our students' archaeology club on friday. i'm "dr. lohmar"
February 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
college of charleston, randolph hall, 23 jan 2025
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
in the odyssey, odysseus’ lieutenant eurylochus pulls off, in modern labor terms, a goddamn wildcat strike
January 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
when bret bielema calls you a nepo baby
January 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
i believe in you, let’s make history this holiday season brother
December 30, 2024 at 1:36 AM