Apologies for blaspheming this snowy Sunday…
But this one has to be shared, after my brief outburst about the misuse and abolition of our fantastic friend the apostrophe.
Unfortunately this is just lending more credence to my inspired idea of enforcing would-be parents to take an IQ test before reproduction is allowed.
In other news, I just wrote a fantastic wall of text over in the ‘Life as a guild leader’ section of the blog. 2800 words in 2 hours!
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I know a guy who got a tattoo of a bible verse, but the book of the bible it was from was spelled wrong. when my mom saw it she said, “it’s okay, i hear jesus was a bad speller too.”
also-why do people get tats in different languages? you can never be sure of what it says unless you speak that language. my friend got the word “love” written in hebrew on her foot. unfortunately, it also translates to “leather.”
February 8th, 2009 at 9:56 pmshe was slightly disheartened when i informed her of this. she’s not even jewish either so i’m not sure what her reasoning on that one was.
Inspired as it surely is, that’s not really *your* idea now is it?
February 8th, 2009 at 10:49 pm@ Maddie – I guess it’s… ‘cool’. Or… contemporary maybe. Or just plain ol’ ethnic (which is therefore implicitly cool, of course!) I’ve heard the same kind of horror stories about people getting tattoos while on holiday…
So you’re Jewish too…?
It might be my idea, Dan — it’s hard to say who had the idea first. I don’t think anyone else has claimed they came up with it first… so… I shall.
February 8th, 2009 at 10:59 pmBaptized Catholic, but now I side more with Reform Judaism. I will blog about that sometimes, but I don’t like to get into a whole lot of that stuff because people get really touchy. I guess it’s part of my heritage too though. Russian/Jew? I dunno. It’s from my fathers side. I’ve never spoken to my father except through a short lived series of e-mails though. I know I’m a quadroon though: one quarter irish, black, russian, and portuguese.
I really love studying Judaism though and have taken a liking to trying to learn Hebrew. It’s a slow process though.
The horror stories are why I don’t plan on getting tats in another language.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:00 amAmerica is still pretty much auto-baptism, right?
You know, you totally just taught me a new word: quadroon! It’s not often that I learn new words… maybe just a few each year now. That’s a great word! You can be an octoroon too! But that just sounds a bit too retarded…
I’m a quarter Russian/Polish. Sadly I don’t speak Hebrew… I blame my mother for that.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:05 amMy mom (who adopted me) is full polish. my grandpa would speak it often, but I don’t remember much.
I’ve heard of being an octoroon! Haha, that is funny! I found out my heritage this past year and that’s when I learned the word quadroon. Glad I could enlighten you too though.
Yes, America is basically auto-baptism, but when it came to being a teen and getting confirmed I didn’t want to. My dad gave me two options: get confirmed or move out of the house. I think you can guess which one I picked.
Do you speak any other languages?
February 9th, 2009 at 12:11 amWow, that’s some bible-bashing right there. I’ve roleplayed a mad, wild-west fire-and-brimstone priest before — I’ve also played alongside one. They were some of the most fun experiences I’ve ever had while roleplaying… You can REALLY get into those bible passages if you draw them out in a deep south drawl. Fantastic stuff.
Saying ‘octoroon’ makes you sound Scottish… Or fan of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld maybe.
I’ve done a year or two of most Western European languages, I just didn’t stick at them. I’m a bit of a language snob really — I really like English. The only reason I would learn a language is to enable easier traveling, and to be honest… French or German aren’t really going to help me in that regard.
I know lots of computer languages!
February 9th, 2009 at 12:20 amI hate computer languages. Leetspeak and LOL….that is my least favorite…LOL…I just threw up a little bit after typing that. TWICE. I don’t think I have ever typed or written that before.
When you talk about role playing (which is two words, by the way) do you mean like in the bedroom?
February 9th, 2009 at 12:25 amBecause role playing the Bible in the bedroom doesn’t sound that appealing to me.
Oh dear, little Maddie…
Roleplaying is certainly a valid spelling — even the Wiki entry is labeled thus! Role Play is certainly fine too (although it’s often hyphenated to role-playing), but don’t stamp your little footsie down and tell me I’m spelling it wrong!
I mean around a table, with paper and dice. Dungeons & Dragons is the most famous example. This was Deadlands though, which is a game based in the Wild West, just after the battle of Gettysburg, I think.
However, I too have never used such abbreviations. Perhaps we can still be friends.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:33 amWhat?! My dumb computer underlined it in red squiggly lines though!!! Damn you laptop!
I guess this friendship will last. Or this marriage. Or this sex-capade. Whatever you wish to call it.
I’ve never played those games before, but I’m a fan of board games! Scrabble and Apples to Apples are the ones I’m most fond of=) I own at both of those.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:38 amChrome, and the addons for other browsers underline all sorts of things that it doesn’t understand.
Especially those wordz that it thinkz require Z’s instead of S’s.
It’s ANALYSE. BAPTISE…
(Notice how earlier you said auto-baptism, instead of auto-baptizm…)
I like the sound of sexcapade, even if it’s underlined in red.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:42 amIt did underline sexcapade. What a load of crap! I am e-mailing the CEO of red squiggly misspelling tomorrow. Do you think that office exists?
February 9th, 2009 at 12:45 amIt would’ve underlined it if it didn’t exist. Computers are awfully intelligent.
Well, PCs are, not sure about the Macs, but…
February 9th, 2009 at 12:48 amMacs are the smarty pants of computer land. You should get one!!! All the cool kids are doing it!!!!!!
February 9th, 2009 at 12:51 amFUCK THE SYSTSEM I SAY
February 9th, 2009 at 12:55 amditto. I have to stop this back and forth nonsense as I am texting, replying to my blog, e-mailing, and AIMing with someone. sometimes, i hate technology
February 9th, 2009 at 1:02 amIf you’re just trying to say that your life is continuing as usual since our break-up… it’s working
February 9th, 2009 at 1:06 amdamn it, you sucked me back in! i’m thinking of posting something about being sad about a recent break up on facebook, but i know my friends would just call me and bombard me with questions…so i decided against that
February 9th, 2009 at 1:15 am