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Comment on 10 Sexual Words (Terms) You Don’t Know by Kayla

Kayla — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:41:07 +0000

this is rlly weird i wish i never clicked on tht……”akward”

Comment on Incredible Luck Guaranteed To Millions For Almost No Effort! by jamestown

jamestown — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:16:53 +0000

And…what are those points???

Comment on 10 Words You Didn’t Know Were From Greek Mythology by RB

RB — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:02:34 +0000

God is not really a person in any of the three religions that sprang from the Judaic root. Between the three distinctly different views, the best that can be said is that conceptually “God” is the highest intelligence and unique and the creator of the universe that surrounds us and permeates us and includes us. As such there is little difference between this and the Hindu conception of God, which you will note has a triple nature: Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu, or the Slavic Tribog – another god with a triple nature.
The agreement between the Torah, the Old Testament and The Koran on the mythology/history of the Middle East indicates simply that Christianity accepted the Holy Books of Judaism as preface to the New Testament and that the Koran provides a separate view of the same mythology/history. Externally, the conceptions of God beyond what I’ve stated above are very difference in these three religions.

Comment on 10 Words You Didn’t Know Were From Greek Mythology by Reese

Reese — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:50:17 +0000

You’re both sort of right. Allah is the Arabic word for God, and the Christian God and the Muslim God are the same person. The thing is that the Muslims do actually believe Jesus was a prophet, but they don’t acknowledge him as being the actual ‘Son of God’. That’s why the Muslims have the same God, but not the Trinity. If you don’t consider Jesus as being part of God, then, well, there is no Trinity. But the gods are definitely the same.

The two religions are actually deeply intertwined. For example, Muslims believe in an learn about Adam, Noah, Abraham, Issac, etc.

Muhammad comes in as being sort of a restorer of the original Muslim faith, which is believed (by Muslims) to have been corrupted and changed throughout the years. He was their greatest prophet.

Comment on Who is Anthony De Croud? by RB

RB — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:20:21 +0000

I’m no I CHing expert, but I rmember being told that the advice for the Superior Man is what’s crucial. I personally suspect that forwarding a superstitious and self-contradictory chain email doesn’t brighten anyone’s bright virtue.

Comment on Who is Anthony De Croud? by LukBLady

LukBLady — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:34:25 +0000

Thought I see what a real Chinese oracle says and asked the I Ching, “Should anyone email the Chinese proverb chain message?”

I got Hexagram 35 (no lines): Progress.

The Ching understood the question: the hexagram is about “rapid, easy progress.” What could be easier than forwarding an email?

But the answer, to me, is inscrutable.

Here are links to two interpretations:

http://www.psychic-revelation.com/reference/i_l/i_ching/hexagram35.html
deoxy.org/iching/35

Comments?

Comment on 10 Nonsense Words You Don’t Know by Doug Stagner

Doug Stagner — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:58:13 +0000

Thanks for your prompt and knowledgeable reply. The reference link you provided was commenting on the very article I’m investigating. As with other articles about the article, it freely changes spellings from the original. (The original hyphenates doodle-gammon.) Most notably for my purpose, it outright substitutes “glass” for “stigtossel,” so I think I can assume that is its meaning!

Comment on 10 Nonsense Words You Don’t Know by RB

RB — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:18:36 +0000

I’m not sure I can help much with this. Here’s all I’ve got.

To “whang” is to beat with force and “baste” can have a similar meaning when it is not used in reference to cookery. So whangbasted conveys the sense of “beaten up”
“Stigtossel is uncertain, although it probably refers to a container. “Stig” most likely refers to a commoner (someone from a poor background). “Tossel” is less certain. In some contexts toss means to vomit, but more likely it’s a kind of bowl or plate, or maybe even a drinking vessel.
Gammon is gammon of course, but it’s a British word, which probably saw little use in Illinois. The “doodle” may well be from Yankee Doodle, since there are recipes for Yankee Doodle Stew (based on beef). One could easy substitute gammon for beef in the stew – in which case, the result might well qualify as a ghostly porridge.
As for who the author is, I’d suggest seeking out an 1890s immigrant from the British Isles.
The only reference I’ve run into that you may not have encountered is here (in the second column page 238 – where doodle gammon is given as two words):
http://books.google.com/books?id=CPodAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA238&lpg=RA3-PA238&dq=whangbasted&source=bl&ots=sPzCPt5Stt&sig=gpM93tm93l8Y2NVQ-wRFmfns-SI&hl=en&ei=7ad9S_L8CYyRtgeirvWXCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=whangbasted&f=false
Excellent and entertaining nonsense, by the way.

Comment on 10 Nonsense Words You Don’t Know by Doug Stagner

Doug Stagner — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:21:51 +0000

I’m researching for my own amusement a purple-prose baseball article from the May 24, 1895, Quincy (Illinois) Herald and trying to discover the genius author’s identity. The article includes the sentence, “Everything was yellow, rocky and whangbasted, like a stigtossel full of doodle-gammon.” Googling I found that poet-editor Ridgely Torrence included in a letter of 7/17/1910, “half a stigtossel of dogglegammon, (that ghostly porridge).” Perhaps he invented the phrase years before? “Gammon” can be bacon, so perhaps dogglegammon is some thin bacon soup. Otherwise I’ve not found “stigtossel” nor “dogglegammon” in any dictionary so far.

Comment on Who is Anthony De Croud? by CuriousGeorge

CuriousGeorge — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:27:50 +0000

So…it’s February…how are you now? Any diseases or other misfortune? Or false alarm?