I have no knowledge of Hebrew nor of ancient Jewish euphemism. But a trawl round the Internet suggests that the literal meaning of the verse is "nor had his sap fled or ebbed"; this apparently may refer to his "natural life force" in general; or is possibly a suggestion that his skin still appeared moist rather than dry and wrinkly. However other legitimate interpretations may well be available!
It seems (the potency thing) rather an odd thing to be mentioning in the context of summing up the guy's life and death. But then, maybe I don't understand, being Y-chromosomally-challenged...
It seems (the potency thing) rather an odd thing to be mentioning in the context of summing up the guy's life and death. But then, maybe I don't understand, being Y-chromosomally-challenged...
Truth told, I meant it as fun and poking at the male condition. I got it first in 1960 something, where it is written into James Michener's book The Source. Which is still worth reading BTW. A vast novelized history of a people and their god to present.
It seems (the potency thing) rather an odd thing to be mentioning in the context of summing up the guy's life and death. But then, maybe I don't understand, being Y-chromosomally-challenged...
Truth told, I meant it as fun and poking at the male condition. I got it first in 1960 something, where it is written into James Michener's book The Source. Which is still worth reading BTW. A vast novelized history of a people and their god to present.
One of my favourite Michener epic novels. I loved the chapter about the Talmud
It seems (the potency thing) rather an odd thing to be mentioning in the context of summing up the guy's life and death. But then, maybe I don't understand, being Y-chromosomally-challenged...
It definitely seems to be a Guy Thing.... in competition with each other in Certain Ways unto death. Grow up, dudes!
<< There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. ... >>
Well, that puts it all out there! Thank you, LC. I had somehow missed that passage.
You really need to read it in the KJV to get the full effect...
Donkeys are certainly packing for their body size, which may be observed by anyone who has spent a bit of time around them, but quite how you'd get to know detail about the 'issue of horses' before the age of AI is beyond me and I think I'd like it to stay that way...
I recently heard an Inuit folk tale where a hunter accidentally swallowed the tip of his harpoon, where it aggravated his stomach so that he let out a mighty fart, expelling the harpoon tip at such force that he killed an entire pod of narwhals.
Whereupon the previously luckless hunter was so feted by the women of his tribe that he slept with all of them.
Clutches head: And THIS IMHO is the true difference between men and women. There ARE no good dick jokes. There just aren’t. Not that half the human race agrees with me...
Clutches head: And THIS IMHO is the true difference between men and women. There ARE no good dick jokes. There just aren’t. Not that half the human race agrees with me...
I'm female, and Rowan Atkinson's dirty roll call nearly killed me the first time I heard it...I realise we have strayed very far indeed from the substance of the OP, but as I traversed a newly concreted section of pavement on the way to pick up my kids from school the other day, I happened to look down and see that someone had engraved a very tidy dick and balls into it at precisely the right stage in the setting process to leave an enduring impression, and I found the whole thing oddly comforting. There may be many things I don't understand (tiktok, vaping, shoes designed by Kanye West, Kanye West himself), and the world may be going to hell in a handbasket in seventeen different ways, but some things at least remain constant and predictable...
HE who is tired of dick jokes is tired of life. The same goes for farting.
...while SHE who is tired of dick jokes and farting is a sane and healthy human being. I agree with @Lamb Chopped: THERE ARE NO GOOD DICK JOKES. It's all terminally immature crap. And farting isn't funny. GROW UP!
HE who is tired of dick jokes is tired of life. The same goes for farting.
...while SHE who is tired of dick jokes and farting is a sane and healthy human being. I agree with @Lamb Chopped: THERE ARE NO GOOD DICK JOKES. It's all terminally immature crap. And farting isn't funny. GROW UP!
I would have sniggered at boobies just to spite Rossweisse, but I already knew about those wonderful birds. Plus, I really like Rossweisse. She's seriously one of my favorite people to read. I think it is her forthright expression.
Some birds, yes. Ducks, fuck no. Ducks are just horribly wrong. The wrongest wrong.
Edit: Not only are these links potentially Not Safe For Work, they might be Not Safe For A Meal You Just Ate. Mostly the ducks. Goddamn ducks.
Much and all as I respect you RooK you are so very wrong about ducks. We have blackscaups here. They are small diving ducks endemic to New Zealand and they are delightful. You look out over a seemingly unpopulated stretch of river and as is by magic they pop up from the depths.
Canada Geese, on the other hand are revolting and pollute the riverbank with their poo, and breed faster than rabbits.
Much and all as I respect you RooK you are so very wrong about ducks. We have blackscaups here. They are small diving ducks endemic to New Zealand and they are delightful. You look out over a seemingly unpopulated stretch of river and as is by magic they pop up from the depths.
Canada Geese, on the other hand are revolting and pollute the riverbank with their poo, and breed faster than rabbits.
I suspect RooK was alluding to the rapey nature of drakes and probably also their utterly alarming equipment. (I did not watch the video, but my father kept ducks...)
You are right that black scaup are delightful to watch swimming. Whether they are like other ducks in their, uhh...reproductive habits, I couldn't say.
Canada Geese, on the other hand are revolting and pollute the riverbank with their poo, and breed faster than rabbits.
There has been a great population explosion among Canada geese. They are spreading pollution everywhere. They have completely taken over some ponds and lakes, so that people can no longer swim in them.
The Episcopal Ark is sometimes visited by ducks (mallards, mostly), though the population seems to have decreased in recent years.
The behaviour of the drakes is...umm...interesting, if unseemly, as @RooK says. The quacking made by a female being attacked is VERY LOUD...especially at four o'clock in the morning...
OTOH, swans are flourishing - we have 2 local pairs, who produced 3 and 5 cygnets respectively last year. Hopefully, there will be a similar number this year (these birds seem to be very territorial, and don't stray far from 'their' reach of the River).
I like swans - not only are they beautiful, and elegant, birds, but they clean the weed from the waterline of the Ark most efficaciously.
Poop jokes are also common; I've not detected anything that tells me they aren't general for children. Also insults. Calling some one a "poopy bum" isn't nice, but it has been the cause of unrestrained giggling in preschoolers. My memory also contains references to potatoes in this context.
At least half of little children do not find dick jokes remotely funny. Only those with Y chromosomes are that obnoxious.
Look, you can like dick jokes or you can not like dick jokes - that's fine. But when you start proclaiming an entire subset of the population "obnoxious" due to the sheer fact of their maleness - that's worse than obnoxious.
At least half of little children do not find dick jokes remotely funny. Only those with Y chromosomes are that obnoxious.
Look, you can like dick jokes or you can not like dick jokes - that's fine. But when you start proclaiming an entire subset of the population "obnoxious" due to the sheer fact of their maleness - that's worse than obnoxious.
At least half of little children do not find dick jokes remotely funny. Only those with Y chromosomes are that obnoxious.
Look, you can like dick jokes or you can not like dick jokes - that's fine. But when you start proclaiming an entire subset of the population "obnoxious" due to the sheer fact of their maleness - that's worse than obnoxious.
Or was it a joke?
Partially. (But I really do get tired of Guy Humor, and assumptions that the entire population finds it hilarious.)
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But I take your point...
General health and fitness. It confuses me as to why he died
Truth told, I meant it as fun and poking at the male condition. I got it first in 1960 something, where it is written into James Michener's book The Source. Which is still worth reading BTW. A vast novelized history of a people and their god to present.
One of my favourite Michener epic novels. I loved the chapter about the Talmud
Moving the plot along: he'd been told 40 years before he wouldn't enter the Promised Land, like most of the exodus.
A good reason for wandering round for 40 years I guess.
<< There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. ... >>
Well, that puts it all out there! Thank you, LC. I had somehow missed that passage.
Donkeys are certainly packing for their body size, which may be observed by anyone who has spent a bit of time around them, but quite how you'd get to know detail about the 'issue of horses' before the age of AI is beyond me and I think I'd like it to stay that way...
And farting dicks -- heaven!
Whereupon the previously luckless hunter was so feted by the women of his tribe that he slept with all of them.
Matthew 18:3
Rickie Lee Jones I Wont Grow Up says it all.
To find them funny is dark humour indeed.
At least little children have far smaller dicks and are therefore able to wave them less widely.
You're not the boss of me!
Yes, boobies.
Some birds (boobies, puffins, ducks, and many others) prove that God has a well-developed sense of humour, no?
Ducks, fuck no. Ducks are just horribly wrong. The wrongest wrong.
Edit: Not only are these links potentially Not Safe For Work, they might be Not Safe For A Meal You Just Ate. Mostly the ducks. Goddamn ducks.
Much and all as I respect you RooK you are so very wrong about ducks. We have blackscaups here. They are small diving ducks endemic to New Zealand and they are delightful. You look out over a seemingly unpopulated stretch of river and as is by magic they pop up from the depths.
Canada Geese, on the other hand are revolting and pollute the riverbank with their poo, and breed faster than rabbits.
If your boobies go all the way down you're probably over 70.
I suspect RooK was alluding to the rapey nature of drakes and probably also their utterly alarming equipment. (I did not watch the video, but my father kept ducks...)
You are right that black scaup are delightful to watch swimming. Whether they are like other ducks in their, uhh...reproductive habits, I couldn't say.
There has been a great population explosion among Canada geese. They are spreading pollution everywhere. They have completely taken over some ponds and lakes, so that people can no longer swim in them.
The behaviour of the drakes is...umm...interesting, if unseemly, as @RooK says. The quacking made by a female being attacked is VERY LOUD...especially at four o'clock in the morning...
OTOH, swans are flourishing - we have 2 local pairs, who produced 3 and 5 cygnets respectively last year. Hopefully, there will be a similar number this year (these birds seem to be very territorial, and don't stray far from 'their' reach of the River).
I like swans - not only are they beautiful, and elegant, birds, but they clean the weed from the waterline of the Ark most efficaciously.
Is it just me, or are we a bit off-topic now?
This must be somebody's cue to paraphrase that old quote: the sad thing about dick jokes is that they keep getting elected.
You're not lilBuddha; don't argue like her. The point was that being like a child is not a Christian flaw.
Or was it a joke?
A joke about dicks, or the lack of them...
Partially. (But I really do get tired of Guy Humor, and assumptions that the entire population finds it hilarious.)