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Porque no.

There isn't any difference. "Crist" is Old English Christ. Crist was pronounced either as "creest", the continental long 'i' sound, or Christ in Chris...

And which holy name has been shortened to 'H'? Jesus Hawkeye Christ Jesus Homer Christ Jesus Hotspur Christ Jesus Heathcliff Christ Jesus Hopalong Chr...

Long time ago, indeed. I heard Sorrels live at the Coffeehouse Extemp in Minneapolis, way back. I discovered her on a record I found at a remainders s...

What brought that on? Did you have an unfortunate conflict with a saguaro cactus? Maybe try Voyeurs National Park, or Fluid Borders National Wildernes...

Having lots of information available (literacy, libraries, leisure, internet, etc.) can make one seem pretty bright, even if one is closer to dull-nor...

I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and still somehow It's cloud illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all Pythagora...

The naive mind could/would think they were solid. It is impossible (or really difficult) for us to see the world with past naïveté. The sun still seem...

How, where... did you come across this interesting Augustinian tidbit? May we assume you were not reading St. Augustine's book?

ALWAYS interested in this sort of etymological information. I'll just dog this topic to death. Literally, "a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typi...

VERY good! I wish I could take credit for that. :100:

The Simpsons were probably not the ur-source of the "release the hounds" command, but the show certainly established it as part of its comic shtick. T...

I read Heart of Darkness a few years ago. I should probably read it again. I tried a one or two of his other novels and didn't get very far with them....

I know nothing about Game of Thrones.

The nerve of those swine!

Now, now, bitter grapes. I provided the source.

"Release the hounds!" Montgomery Burns

How about a little canine meat porn? https://64.media.tumblr.com/0a59613ea720930af28082e709161f71/38efdb3ca0ff4cfe-c3/s1280x1920/cfdcfaba41f1ca0d9f99a...

Dog smiles. More pigs, more bacon. Drools. Licks chops.

The "someone" is a product of the whole body. I could say the "someone" is located in the brain, but the brain is an inseparable part of the whole. Th...

Someone who has a body. Like, everybody we know, including you. Embodiment is not a trivial matter. Embodiment has very ancient roots, and there is co...

Yeah, dull, dull, dull.

Questions about sexuality are definitely fair game in a philosophy forum, and the shout box is as good a place as any. Well, the usual things that hap...

Perfect.

I can picture Heston saying "From my cold, dead hands" a lot easier than I can picture him saying "Power to the people!"

Hold on there -- popcorn anachronism alert. Popcorn doesn't make an appearance in Anglo-European history until the Wampanoag Indians served it to the ...

Something odd about that statement. How fast is "30 FPS"?

Heston was such a hunk. The history of the chariot is very interesting. Where did this race take place in the book--can't remember? Surely not in east...

As a matter of fact... 3 years ago I was wearing red socks which this guy on the train noticed. He declared he had never worn red socks! (Meaning what...

I'm not quite sure what you are proposing. Could you expand the "it" pronoun that you propose I do? Has Shawn seen Ben Hur? I saw Ben Hur and read the...

No doubt Streetlight is highly hetero-normative as well as lastingly left-deformafied.

What a fine poem! Carve it in granite.

You? Broad tent?

There's this song from The Fantastics!, an ancient musical you might remember Try to remember the kind of September When life was slow and oh, so mell...

2001 or 2021? On 2001 I had just gotten to work at the U of MN. Fairly soon someone rolled out a TV in the building's atrium. I went downstairs to wat...

So, my perspective is the US, not the UK. Though I have heard plenty about the UK's situation on the BBC and from the Guardian. I'm not so sure that h...

Good quotes. Absolutely. When we talk about our brains we divide it up as if it were a computer with very discrete parts--memory chips, logic unit, em...

At an earlier stage of the pandemic (before vaccines were ready) the primary purpose of lockdowns (at least as I understood them) was to reduce the nu...

Right, humans have difficulty maintaining intellectual effort while keeping their vigorous emotions under control. To assert that "almost no one can r...

Don't leave out small pox -- the world was declared free of smallpox in 1980. "One of history's deadliest diseases, smallpox is estimated to have kill...

Here we have two sweeping generalizations--one more useful than the other. From the Christian POV, what with original sin and all, NO ONE is free of s...

Ideally suited to cranks.

Yes, bad poetry (like barely making it even as doggerel) should definitely not stand unimproved. There was a young son of Hanover's who suffered from ...

Dog Dog fixes pig with serene stare.

rhyme scheme: AABBA, sort of. What is a "be ton"? Is 'ton' supposed to rhyme with 'on'? (It normally doesn't) Hungover Hannover (or Hanover) is OK. Bu...

We can be rational, but so often are not. Why is that? Why narcissism? Why neuroticism? Free floating aggression? Etc.??? Our primate ancestors bequea...

I've never been to Nagasaki. When I think of Milwaukee it's more of sauerbraten. sauerkraut, and Calatrava than sushi and fish sauce.

I don't own a television any more (and there is no virtue-signal in this), but I do watch stuff on Netflix. It seems like the 'orbit of plots" in thes...

haikus are easy five seven five is the rule it's easy peasy

I have always found the later romantics--Shelley, Keats, Byron, et al distasteful. Keats can keep his odes to Greek urinals. "it is through beauty tha...