Posts by Stephen Judd
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Clearly you should have rammed the offending items back into her lap, put the boot into car panels, and shouted "NO FUCKER LITTERS IN FRONT OF ALAN BOLLARD AND GETS AWAY WITH IT."
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I don't know -- but the practice goes back to the King James translators if not earlier.
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Erm, to be complicated, "caritas" in Christian Latin often is rendered as "love" in English, on the assumption that "caritas" in Latin is in turn rendering "agape" in Greek. cite.
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Breaking for the Pope:
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A popular kind of bamboo sax rejoices in the moniker "Xaphoon".
I am glad to hear that mendicant xaphoonists are remunerated.
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Surely what constitutes ones best behaviour is a matter of perspective.
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the German movie industry
I thought we were avoiding stereotyping here?
(I still have a copy of Dundes' Life is like a Chicken Coop Ladder lying around somewhere, in which book he controversially posited that scatology was deeply embedded in German folk culture, tying Swabian folk rhymes, Luther and the holocaust into one folkloric mess. It also has a lot of funny poo jokes in it.)
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Vanilla? Bored?
Sounds like someone needs a visit from the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.
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Totally. Just to be clear, I'm into finding things out for curiosity's own sake. Personally I have a big problem with arguments, whether pro or anti, that hinge on nurture or nature -- civil rights for (sexual, religious, whatever) minorities aren't predicated on being born or raised a particular way but on principles of tolerance that have nothing to do with whether you can "help it" or not.
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Sorry, I meant to link here for a little more context.