Loads of Aeneus' shipmates got eaten by Furies, I think.
And what's the fun in becoming an immortal demon if you're not regular, am I right?
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Jars - Aug 02, 2006 8:50:53 am PDT #9975 of 10002
Trudy Booth - Aug 02, 2006 8:51:50 am PDT #9976 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Speaking of unpleasant fates - who got torn apart by the furies?
Any number of demons, vampires, etc.
Glamcookie - Aug 02, 2006 8:52:00 am PDT #9977 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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!
Nutty - Aug 02, 2006 8:53:02 am PDT #9978 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
Hayden - Aug 02, 2006 8:55:17 am PDT #9979 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I haven't read it yet
I bet your mom would let me.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2006 8:56:31 am PDT #9980 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Someone said in Bitches that they find birthday discussions offensive.
Oh, really? That's my least favorite thing abut Jahovah's Witnesses, at least the one bitchy woman I used to work with. Back to the drawing board.
Jesse - Aug 02, 2006 9:00:07 am PDT #9981 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, googling "Bahai birthday" led me to this guy's blog, where he talks about Baha'i and also his birthday party, so I'm going to go with that not being a big part of the religion, if at all. [link]
Sophia Brooks - Aug 02, 2006 9:00:46 am PDT #9982 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
who got torn apart by the furies?
I read this as "who got torn about by the FURRIES?"
-t - Aug 02, 2006 9:02:16 am PDT #9983 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Cute overload is crashing my browser. Woe.
I just found out that the place DH and I went for lunch on Saturday is where Mel Gibson was allegedly drinking before his arrest. I feel so chic.
WRT Job, I don't focus so much on the God doing stuff to him to test him part. What's striking me right now as the most important bit is when his friends come to him and ask him to confess whatever he must've done to deserve all this terrible misfortune, and he knows that he is righteous.
One of the things we lost in Katrina was DH's Pentateuch, along with pretty much all of our Judaica. As we were collecting the ruined books so they could be disposed of properly, I had the thought - what if those guys saying the storm was God's wrath were right? It was a fleeting thought, supplanted by my old reliable then that's not a god I want on my side rebuttal, but it was a scary amount of doubt for a moment there.
I wasn't thiking of Job at the time, but Job's faithfulness in the face of trials he doesn't understand - all that business of tests, he's not privy to any of that - is comforting to me. If the lesson of the Book of Job is that following God's Law won't get you rewards or even allow you to escape terrible sorrows, but it may afford you some kind of serenity and surety in an uncertain world, well, that works for me.
juliana - Aug 02, 2006 9:05:45 am PDT #9984 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
"who got torn about by the FURRIES?"
Which leads me into remembering today's Dork Tower....
Oh, the gamers and the furries should be friends....