[allmendream]

“In order to stop all those insipid jokes, the planet Uranus was renamed Urectum.” Proff Farnsworth, Futurama

[ReverendJames]

I remember in math class the famous curve, which is the vertex, the point at which the axis intersects the curve. The latus rectum is the chord through the focus perpendicular to the axis. I recall the guffaws on that one.