No, no, no! The cake is where the deliciousness is stored. Cake is the perfect egg-delivery mechanism, as it requires them, and yet there is no hint of the actual taste of the eggs.

Jesscia -- Hee. (Just so you know someone got it. Validation!)

Man, I thought there'd been a fight when I saw all the new posts. And then I wondered if I'd said something horrible. Thank god; just a discussion of coleslaw. And clubs. And... thingies.

Strega, that interview charmed the hell out of me. It's strange how people are.

Heh. You mean me! You don't mean "people," you mean me! Sob. No, I know a lot of people find him charming, but... I think if I'd ever seen him say that something that didn't go over well was maybe possibly his fault, that'd be a help.

When I came home there was a notice on the bulletin board about how people should not start screaming and fighting because they have to share the lap lane. Yeesh.

The cake is where the deliciousness is stored.

Yummmm...lemon cake with white frosting...white cake with strawberries and bananas in the buttercream frosting...

::trying to talk myself out of adding cake mix and frosting to the grocery list::

Now I want cake, or pie.

When come back...

When come back...

Bring Pie?

I can do that!

Just read the sidebar--vibing hard for the Zmayhems and the Halloweenie!!!

Oh, Zmayhems, how terrifying! Many good vibes to you all.

Strega, Sean, Jess, whoever, one problem with "literal" is that it doesn't mean "literal" in Christian theology speak. Look up the Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics, or the related Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, or one of the Pontifical Biblical Commission publications on the Interpretation of the Bible in the Church. In each of these documents, there is the claim/instruction to take the text literally, and then the qualifier, that to say by 'literal', they mean in a normal or historical sense (and they then refer to the historical-grammatical method). They are saying they read whatever the writer wrote, as written, sensitive to genre, and they are specific to note that as written means there are literary devices, figures of speech, allegory, etc., employed in scripture, and should be taken as such when presented as such.

I don't think Strega's wrong about poll results identifying trends, but my cynical side thinks the trend best supported by the poll may well be that words like 'literal' get thrown about, and/or claimed as some badge, when people don't mean them, but fear some "slippery slope" (dear me, I hate that term nearly as much as M.E.'s use of "champion") which they're afraid they'll slide down, if they publically acknowledge all the exceptions they make privately, in order to define/use the term literal, in the first place.

Here's [link] an interesting (open ended) discussion, that was also posted at Crooked Timber.

I need a time disappearing device, so that it can be 55 minutes from now.