there are subtle nuances in every single one of those EXCELSIORS, I'll have you LOL

(sorry, cross-thread joeks)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html

A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: “Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …'”

Having trouble reading this w/o hearing Borat in my head, tbh.

― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Unfortunately the scarps of papyrus to either side, that read "Take" and "please..." are lost to the sands of time.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

... my wife, my wife, lemme tell ya 'bout my wife

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

We were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Somewhere, squirreled away amidst centuries of arcania is a slip of papyrus advertising Jesus' set at the Chuckle Hut Jerusalem.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:40 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the other night she put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 3:41 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kind of fish (and loaves) in a barrel, but still, kudos ilx

Jesus sounding more and more like Woody Allen.

Shecky Green, 13th apostle

now THIS is a crucifixion

"I can see my house from here..."

"Tough crowd out here, what is this, a last supper?"

I'm dyin' up here!

"I have a very low threshold of death. My doctor says that I can't have nails enter my body at any time."

http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/234030029_b948e3ef69.jpg

Leelee Sobieski as Officer Jennifer "White House" Perry, a Marine MP veteran of the Iraq War
:O

― Instagrams of Lily on My Facebook Wall (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:11 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she's... what you expect.

― Nhex, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:25 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cute?

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kicked into a wall by Nic Cage?

― wtf where's my chapbook (DJP), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

its national talk like a pirate day fwiw my lord

Contrary to all reports, I don't live in a cave

― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do u live in a berrrrrrth

― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think

― real men have been preparing manly dishes for centuries (elmo argonaut), Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its reddit, don't try too hard. clearly most of them don't.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:27 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HARSH

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:47 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*pops zit in mirror, takes picture*

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:52 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*upvotes furiously*

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:56 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*sends .0000000000000002356 bitcoins in thanks*

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, September 20, 2012 1:57 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*seasteads with proceeds*

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, September 20, 2012 2:06 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Another couple of weeks and I'll have been an ex-pat for 20 years.

― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

having a party?

― LAST DAY TO VOTE IN 80S ROCK POLL BY... (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

btw are you voting in the 80s rock poll? Today is the last day to vote.

― LAST DAY TO VOTE IN 80S ROCK POLL BY... (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awwwww

haha

posts v much in character

<3

I feel like he's going to show up at my deathbed to tell me there's still time to vote in the jazz albums poll.

in the best way possible, he is the bicycle-riding mormon of ilx music polls

once in rural France my gps took me onto a dirt road alongside a river, & the road kept getting smaller & smaller until it ended in a creek

in that creek I saw an iphone floating

― Euler, Friday, September 21, 2012 7:19 AM (2 hours ago)

I didn't think depression ran in my family until I realised denial of depression does.

Suuuuper OTM.

― Old Lunch, Friday, September 21, 2012 2:54 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

needed a snare drum at the end!

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, September 21, 2012 2:55 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and the sound of a bomb going off

― the late great, Friday, September 21, 2012 3:08 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just cos i'm irish no need to bring terrorism into it.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, September 21, 2012 3:09 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

come on man i'm iranian, i gotta bring terrorism into it

― the late great, Friday, September 21, 2012 3:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can't spell iranian without ira, so i think we're grand here.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, September 21, 2012 3:12 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolll

a contra-ira affair

nations coming together

top two england-hating nations in the world i believe

over england?

good point well made, balls

top two england-hating nations, non-england division

my geology professor grandfather - who listens to english-language radio cuba and china on shortwave for "fair and balanced" reportage - seriously thinks the british are pulling the strings behind everything in the middle east up to and including the iranian womd program, the civil war in syria, and the assassination of our ambassador in libya

india wants in on this hating england action except it's also the top slavishly-adoring-england nation

yeah, i feel iran has a significant bigger subset of anglophiles than e.g. scotland too

are guys disputing my rankings

this is the same grandfather who followed up building a violin by doing the HMS victory in a bottle

my parents took their southern california ranch house a transformed it into this federalist-style thing and then filled up the inside with marble and fake ming dynasty vase lamps and paintings of famous british sea battles, armchairs upholstered with dogs hunting foxes patterns, haydn on the stereo etc

you could write a whole book about colonialism just based on home decor choices of iranian expats i think

That is fascinating.

my dad quotes wordsworth's "i wandered lonely as a cloud" whenever anyone's discussing poetry, wandering, clouds, etc

also quotes kashmiri folk wisdom truisms like "never trust a dark cloud or a white man"

LOL

what we don't do is play cricket

grandparents -> weirdly conflicted anglophile/phobe thing going on

parents -> straight europhiles, weirdly conflicted ameriphile/phobe feelings

my generation -> bickering about east coast vs west coast

my dad totes plays cricket

thats why the english were the top colonialists, they mind fucked their subjects in admiring them

well y'all did invent churchill, newton, darwin, byron and the beatles

meanwhile we gave you, uh, hafez, rumi and dead dinosaurs

Admiring the English is one thing, admiring cricket is the Devil's greatest trick.

i think the english were just the most convinced of their own worthiness, & it rubbed off

england beat afghanistan in the cricket today btw = still top nation

also quotes kashmiri folk wisdom truisms like "never trust a dark cloud or a white man"

this is good advice btw, as is "never trust a hippie", which is ironic since many of my favorite people are white hippies like ronan

bono, etc

my recs for y'all:
unit structures
conquistador!
compulsion!!!
out to lunch (DUH)
evolution
some other stuff
destination OUT
NOW!
empyrean isles
components (side 2)
point of departure
of love and peace
contrasts
UNITY
right now!
time for tyner
all three don cherrys
expansions

― 69, Friday, September 21, 2012 12:56 PM (4 hours ago)

This looks like a poem

― Evan, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like William Shatner and some bongos poetry

― Evan, Friday, September 21, 2012 9:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink