Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Thanks, Lee.
I just spent way too long talking and thinking about the Baha'i. They just seem so sensible and nice!
Someone said in Bitches that they find birthday discussions offensive. Which I'm probably restating all wrong, but if we're going to wank on religion I think we should cover more bases.
I always thought, was a way for people to learn that no just God needs the sacrifice of your children as proof of faith. Still makes God look like a total bastard. Though, wasn't that the first time in human history that someone got Punk'd?
I have heard the theory, although that wasn't how I read it as a child. As an adult, I think I have more of a problem with the punking, but I (like Nutty said above) HATE any and all practical jokes. I think they are mean, and not really very funny.
No, the fruit thing was just a precursor to "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus."
"Pleeeeease can I eat the apple?"
"I'll be your best friend!"
omg antihistimine.
OK, there are days I really wonder about people. This dude sends me an email containing a forward of his account info, including password, saying it doesn't accept his password, fixit!
I tell him to make sure he's using a lower case "L", not a numeric one. He writes back his password (which, mind you, is in the original email we sent and he forwarded back and is copied in all these emails) doesn't contain a lower case "L". YES IT DOES IT'S RIGHT THERE I TOLD YOU IT IS AN L NOT A 1!!!!!!
Narcissus is the one who stared into his own reflection, rapt, till he withered and died. Which is where the term "narcissism" comes from.
No, I knew that, but I thought he met some horrible afterlife fate as well. I was pretty sure it was Prometheus (and his liver), but not 100%.
Speaking of unpleasant fates - who got torn apart by the furies?
Speaking of unpleasant fates - who got torn apart by the furies?
The Furies or the Maenads? Orpheus was killed by the Maenads, I think, and so was...the king in The Bacchae, whose name I'm forgetting.
The Furies chased after Orestes for a while because he killed his mother.
Loads of Aeneus' shipmates got eaten by Furies, I think.
Speaking of unpleasant fates - who got torn apart by the furies?
Any number of demons, vampires, etc.
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
I sent my niece this book recently and it was a HUGE hit with her, my brother, SiL, and parents. They all love it. I haven't read it yet - got it for her based on Buffistas. So, thanks!
Furies, sirens, harpies, Maenads, Bacchantes -- the Greeks kind of had an Issue with their womenfolk going off wild and crazy.
The Greeks kind of had an Issue with women overall, but the wild-and-crazy women: well, look what they did to Klytaemnestra.