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[Hank Chinaski]

Yankee and Mets fans: what do you think of the new stadiums?

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Yankee and Mets fans: what do you think of the new stadiums?

Going at the end of the month to Citifield. I will report. Maybe.

And it is good to hear that California can still afford earthquakes.

[Hank Chinaski]

A few years ago, my wife buys a new humor magazine called "Heeb." Jewish humor written by hip young Jews, like if dtb and paigow wrote a blog, kind of.

This weekend we have a garage sale. there is a big table of book. A very old pickle is sorting through the books, and has picked out a few China travel things. He has to be too old to go, I think. So I ask him, "you going there?"

He says, "no. I grew up there. My family fled Germany, and the one country taking Jews was China. I grew up in Shanghai." He goes on with these stories about the war years. I asked him about the Japanese invasion (remembering "when we were orphans,") but he seemed confused by the question, or remembered it as not a big deal.

Any way, he was telling me all these stories about life for a Jew there in the 30s and 40s and how he came to be in the US. And, as I listened, looking over his shoulder, I could see the Heeb magazine poking its title out a corner of the book table.

It was a scary moment, because I was pretty sure he might not get the laugh. Luckily, he left without looking anymore.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred

"Gabba Gabba Hey" is a catchphrase associated with the punk rock band the Ramones. The slogan comes from a scene in the 1932 motion picture Freaks, in which the title characters chant the line "Gooble, gobble, we accept her, we accept her, one of us, one of us!"

Is this what Lyle Lovett's character is referring to in The Player?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Leviticus is much better.

We went with Rilke. But not this one:

Archaic Torso of Apollo

We do not know his unheard of head,
in which the seeing of his eyes ripened. But
his trunk still glows like a thousand candles,
in which his looking, only turned down slightly,

continues to shine. Otherwise the thrust of the
breast wouldn't blind you, and from the light twist
of the loins a smile wouldn't flow into
that center where the generative power thrived.

Otherwise this stone would stand half disfigured
under the transparent fall of the shoulders,
and wouldn't shimmer like the skin of a wild animal;

it wouldn't be breaking out, like a star, on
all its sides: for there is no place on this stone,
that does not see you. You must change your life.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

OK, I felt that. House shook for about 10-15 seconds. Nothing broke, but it was strong enough to wonder what the hell that was. Apparently, Lennox is just outside of El Segundo, which means that it was pretty close to the Gap Fortified Villa.

When you stop shaking, can you pick my wallet up for me? I gotta get it.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Yankee and Mets fans: what do you think of the new stadiums?

Won't go until I get free tickets. But anything will be better than the last Yankee stadium, which, history aside, was a shithole.

TM

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

We went with Rilke.

Huh. We went with Rite II, Eucharistic Prayer B. We were going to go with Rite II, Eucharistic Prayer C, but at the last minute we remembered we weren't dirty fucking hippies.

[dtb]

My f-i-l is something of an icon in his esoteric field, and this weekend, he was being honored at a museum, so we all trooped up to participate in the hoopla. He gave a speech during the dinner Saturday night (he's in his 90s) where he recounted this and that.

So during his speech, I learned that he knew Orville Wright, who was very keen on one of my f-i-l's inventions, and kissed Eva Peron (she died shortly thereafter). So does that make me one or two-degrees of separation from those guys?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I think I love you. OTOH, I can't stand weddings that use the format of a church wedding (readings, sermon, vows) by substituting poems and Khalil Gibran and half-baked usage of the word "Love" in the liturgical places where "God" would be used instead. It really effectively communicates to the participants that the couple really is the single most important thing in the couple's life, and leads one to suspect it's a different half of the couple for each of them.

I apologize if this describes any of your weddings, but if it does, I will show up and read Philip Larkin at your funeral whether you want me to or not.

If it's under 20 minutes, I like it. If over, I don't. I am easy.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

If it's under 20 minutes, I like it. If over, I don't. I am easy.

Trying to restart the blowjob convo, I see.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by dtb

My f-i-l is something of an icon in his esoteric field, and this weekend, he was being honored at a museum, so we all trooped up to participate in the hoopla. He gave a speech during the dinner Saturday night (he's in his 90s) where he recounted this and that.

So during his speech, I learned that he knew Orville Wright, who was very keen on one of my f-i-l's inventions, and kissed Eva Peron (she died shortly thereafter). So does that make me one or two-degrees of separation from those guys?

did he have sex with Eva, and if so, was it before he conceived your Husband. If so, you knock off a half-degree by injection!

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred

I'm awfully late to the party on this, but here goes...

A month or so ago, I quibbled with Dan Savage, who argued that straight couples had an obligation to donate to pro-gay marriage groups and/or have the preacher advocate for gay marriage in their sermon. But after reading ML's impassioned defense of First Corinthians, Chapter 13, I've changed my mind. As wedding season is upon us, I now propose the following: If you're a straight couple and you're getting married, you don't have to follow Dan Savage's advice unless you use First Corinthians, Chapter 13 as a reading or in the program at your wedding. If you simply must have someone read that passage, that's fine. Just donate $1000 dollars (minimum, there's a sliding scale) to a pro-gay marriage advocacy group. That's the fine for misusing God's words on your very special day.

Please allow me to elaborate. This beloved passage that I've heard at almost every wedding I've attended, has nothing to do with weddings, marriages, or romantic love. Paul wrote a letter to the Christian church in Corinth. The Corinthians were the people who went there. Paul wasn't giving marital advice or advice for young lovers in that passage. In fact, earlier in his letter, he writes the following, "I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I. But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn." I Corinthians 7:8-9. Paul wasn't a proponent of marriage, straight or gay. He just thought marriage was better than Hell. Others disagree with him on this point.

In Chapter 13, Paul wrote about the primacy of love for God and the Church, meaning love for your fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. The Greek word he used was "agape" - not "eros" or "phileos." This entire passage does not mean what people think it means. I haven't taken a religious studies since high school. I haven't been to a Bible study in decades, but I probably learned the meaning behind First Corinthians Chapter 13 some twenty-five years ago.

So mommylawyer, while the passage comes from the Bible, not from Hallmark, the use of it in weddings, on photo albums, and in any romantic context is pure Hallmark. And for you to lecture Thurgreed about it in a fashion that reveals a complete lack of understanding for the text and its meaning does not speak well of your debating skills. Hopefully, you're better at oral sex than you are at Bible study. Maybe you hope your husband goes to church on Sunday by himself, too.

And also, kudos to RT for suggesting Song of Solomon (aka Song of Songs). "Breasts like twin gazelles" indeed. And bringing it back to take another swipe at ML: Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) of 2006 refers to the Song of Songs in both its literal and allegorical meaning, stating that erotic love (eros) and self-donating love (agape) is shown there as the two halves of true love, which is both giving and receiving. So even the Pope wants you to blow your husband with some enthusiasm.

Congratulations. That was the most boring post in the history of this board.


But we're all impressed with the level of Bible study (and Greek) that you had in junior high.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Yeah, it makes sense that it's mining my emails (even though I never said it could). That makes me feel all dirty.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

OK, I felt that. House shook for about 10-15 seconds. Nothing broke, but it was strong enough to wonder what the hell that was. Apparently, Lennox is just outside of El Segundo, which means that it was pretty close to the Gap Fortified Villa.

NCS? Fringey?

Don't know about ncs and fringe, but I think Gwinky had an orgasm.