you guys are posting posers today.

I think you must have miscounted. Only one guy posted a poser in this thread. Thank you for answering mine, though.
I couldn't figure out how a straight-up-and-down spire could be related to a corkscrew shape. (By the way, I don't mind Latin or whatever when it is given as a part of an explanation of something, for ex. the root of a word.)