DCJ, do you know when you get your sleep study results?
2pm today.
You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DCJensen - Sep 08, 2010 5:23:44 am PDT #1619 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Zenkitty - Sep 08, 2010 5:28:13 am PDT #1620 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Good to see your pixels, Drew. Nose tube, ugh.
Shir - Sep 08, 2010 5:29:52 am PDT #1621 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
BTW, the new Conservative prayer book for the High Holidays no longer uses "awesome" as the English translation of the Hebrew "norah," because the rabbis writing it decided that "awesome" sounds too slangy now and doesn't have the traditional "deserving of awe" meaning for most people any more. They're also not using "salvation" for "geula," because they say that people don't use the word salvation anymore, so they're using "help" or "deliverance" instead. I'm not sure who decided that "deliverance" is more commonly used in modern American English than "salvation," because to me, both of them seem equally prayer-language rather than speaking-language.
As a person who speaks Israeli Hebrew, I agree with the Rabbis about "awesome" (norah now only holds the meaning of "really really bad" in speaking Israeli Hebrew), but I agree with you about geula.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Sep 08, 2010 5:38:01 am PDT #1622 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
In the church I grew up in (which was slightly to the, um, more right-wing end of the Christian spectrum) we used to sing a hymn that started with "Our God is an awesome God". Being aged about seven at the time, I couldn't help but imagine God in shades giving Jesus a high-five while we sang this.
tommyrot - Sep 08, 2010 5:40:48 am PDT #1623 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
There was some hymm we sang that had a line about bringing "Peculiar honors for our King." Yeah, pretty much any odd word in a hymm would amuse me.
JZ - Sep 08, 2010 6:01:50 am PDT #1624 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Wishing you tons of ~ma always, Drew. Here's hoping the tubes do their work of giving your innards a chance to rest and recover and HULK SMASH the infections ASAP.
Vortex - Sep 08, 2010 6:06:52 am PDT #1625 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I'm not sure who decided that "deliverance" is more commonly used in modern American English than "salvation," because to me, both of them seem equally prayer-language rather than speaking-language.)
not to mention that deliverance is more associated with banjos and inbreeding than salvation.
amych - Sep 08, 2010 6:09:46 am PDT #1626 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hmm. To me, the issue with "salvation" isn't that it's uncommon, but the connotation is almost exclusively Christian (in contemporary US context, of course) -- not just help, but the specific theology. Of course, "deliverance" is pretty much the movie. They should stick to "help".
amych - Sep 08, 2010 6:10:25 am PDT #1627 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Har! Dueling x-posting banjos!
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2010 6:15:45 am PDT #1628 of 30000
brillig
(norah now only holds the meaning of "really really bad" in speaking Israeli Hebrew
I'm thinking there aren't many girls named Norah in Israel these days.