{Somewhat distorted and annoying loudspeaker.}
"Apathy spill in aisle 4. Clean up in aisle 4, please. No, Trudy, of course you don't have to do it now--just whenever you feel like doing it, ok? Sure, you can bring your boyfriend along, and sure, he can help clean. But he's *not* getting paid--and if you don't get a move on, neither will you!"
Rossweisse nails it in the Prayers for America thread in AS:
This is a terrible time in the life of the United States. We are meant to be a shining light upon a hill; instead, we're being ruled by a creature born of some sort of spontaneous combustion in a dung heap ...
"Carrying a cross is a major commitment, and it would suck to realize you'd grabbed the wrong one just two minutes before Amazon pulled up and delivered you your very own, one-of-a-kind fits-you-like-you-were-born-with-it cross."
Shakespeare nailed it: a man may smile and smile and be a total douchebag, and now he's all like, "What's your problem? I was smiling the whole time. You're so rude!"
I can't help thinking that the Reformer machine sounds like an instrument of torture, possibly employed by the Spanish Inquisition ...
to which Alan replied:
Maybe something more likely to be used by the followers of John Knox, brought out if you leave your laundry out to dry on the Sabbath. The Scottish Inquisition.
Pity Mr Purcell is not around at the moment. I am invisaging a smallish opera. It will have a set with several circular layers which will rotate in the manner of the set for Oliver. Along the front of stage will come Virgil, and Dante, explaining their journey (or perhaps, less operatically, Bill and Ted). On the levels will appear in sequence the dramatis personae listed above, explaining the reason for their being there, somewhat in the manner of the king of Boetia (sp) in Orpheus in the Underworld. And then, across the backdrop, via CGI will appear the countless innocents dead before their time, mounting stairs copied from "A Matter of Life and Death" and singing of their unfinished lives before they are raptured into a great light. And the Hell trapped Tories sing in answering chorus, that they followed the science, they did what they thought was best. And Satan, triumphant, points out that it was what they thought was best for their pockets and not for the people. And even then, the Tories do not despair, do not repent. Jacob Rees-Mogg steps forward and sings that all were carping, none recognised how much good they had done, and anyway he had been to confession. But Satan pulls him back on to the rotating set and sings that that only works if you really mean it.
Dante and Virgil exit stage left, with Dante singing that nothing ever changes, and Virgil agrees.
Oh, I can think of many other countries that qualify, or worse.
Perhaps you never heard the story of the old New York Jewish lady who, on learning that there had been a Jewish mayor of Dublin said, "Only in America!"
Whoa, whoa, WHOA. There is no freaking way I am telling God what to do. Why should he "share power more freely?" Considering the human race, that sounds like "share chainsaws with a kindergarten class more freely." I wouldn't share permanent markers with some people, and God is surely wiser than I.
... He hath not employed those people whom he ought to have employed; and he hath employed those people whom he ought not to have employed; And there is no health in us.
No worries, @lilbuddha - I thought about getting an Admin to move it (Hosts don't have power to move single posts to another thread), but I was fairly sure it was just an understandable mistake - it's very easily done.
Arethosemyfeet considers the multiple authorship theory for the Gospel of John:
If it was written by a community my hypothesis is that they talked about it for ages, hemmed and hawed about what to put in, going round in circles until one of them got frustrated, went home and wrote it themselves. The writer then brought it to the community who approved it with barely concealed relief that someone had got it done. The writer, who thought they'd written a draft for discussion, then didn't dare point out the placeholders where they'd been unsure about the order of events, and kept quiet about nobody spotting that they'd managed to miss the institution of Holy Communion.
I'm assuming it's the verb from whence we get troth, as in what I plighted when I got married?
Kinda sorta. Troth comes from truth, and truth and trow both come from a proto-Germanic ancestor with an asterisk (which is also as you might guess the source of true).
This gem from Stercus Tauri on the tangent in TICTH in AS about the perils of living below people who are, shall we say, enthusiastic in the sack, deserves preservation:
When we lived in Fife we had a dear old neighbour in the flat below us, and when we told her that out second child was on the way, her response was, "I'm not surprised".
This gem from Stercus Tauri on the tangent in TICTH in AS about the perils of living below people who are, shall we say, enthusiastic in the sack, deserves preservation:
When we lived in Fife we had a dear old neighbour in the flat below us, and when we told her that out second child was on the way, her response was, "I'm not surprised".
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{Somewhat distorted and annoying loudspeaker.}
"Apathy spill in aisle 4. Clean up in aisle 4, please. No, Trudy, of course you don't have to do it now--just whenever you feel like doing it, ok? Sure, you can bring your boyfriend along, and sure, he can help clean. But he's *not* getting paid--and if you don't get a move on, neither will you!"
"Carrying a cross is a major commitment, and it would suck to realize you'd grabbed the wrong one just two minutes before Amazon pulled up and delivered you your very own, one-of-a-kind fits-you-like-you-were-born-with-it cross."
Said by @ExclamationMark in the Take up your cross thread in Purgatory. Excellent pithy advice.
to which Alan replied:
For the non-Scots - puggled - very tired, possibly following physical exertion
I look forward to the day that Canada and Mexico peacefully resolve their border dispute.
@Boogie has a succinct answer
True this.
Perhaps you never heard the story of the old New York Jewish lady who, on learning that there had been a Jewish mayor of Dublin said, "Only in America!"
LOL.
But many countries, cultures, societies don't think of women as people--definitely not "equal to men" people"
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I hope he's only half right ...
What does this have to do with ship's quotes?
Piglet, Circus host
"If BJ [Boris Johnson] shook my hand I would count my fingers."
I can think of many people who "taught" me who were not fit to teach ivy to climb a wall ... 😂
Well, you are what you eat.
Thank you for teaching me a new (old) word.
Kinda sorta. Troth comes from truth, and truth and trow both come from a proto-Germanic ancestor with an asterisk (which is also as you might guess the source of true).
Oh that's priceless.