I find Jewish history fascinating, offering no good explanation for how its spiritual leadership evolved from Moshe Rabeinu to Hanover in just a few thousand years. — Hanover

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Atlanta to be born?

Yes, yes. I'm aware I just used this quote in the past week.

Don’t overuse that stuff TC. It’s kryptonite.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Atlanta to be born? — T Clark

So the poem actually references Bethlehem, but this troubles me, as I've heard that Jesus was actually born in Nazareth, but the apologists changed it to Bethlehem because the expectation was that he was to be from Bethlehem.

Don’t overuse that stuff TC. It’s kryptonite. — Jamal

I've only ever read 10 poems. I've got to work with what I have.

So the poem actually references Bethlehem, but this troubles me, as I've heard that Jesus was actually born in Nazareth, but the apologists changed it to Bethlehem because the expectation was that he was to be from Bethlehem. — Hanover

So, that's good news. When the rough beast gets to Bethlehem, he'll get all confused and frustrated and then just go back to his stony sleep for 20 more centuries.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

:grimace:

"It's a Snark!" was the sound that first came to their ears,
And seemed almost too good to be true.
Then followed a torrent of laughter and cheers:
Then the ominous words "It's a Boo—"

Then, silence. Some fancied they heard in the air
A weary and wandering sigh
That sounded like "-jum!" but the others declare
It was only a breeze that went by.

They hunted till darkness came on, but they found
Not a button, or feather, or mark,
By which they could tell that they stood on the ground
Where the Baker had met with the Snark.

In the midst of the word he was trying to say,
In the midst of his laughter and glee,
He had softly and suddenly vanished away—
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.

When I stroke the arm of my jacket, it reminds me of my many a cold lonely night, just me and my cell phone. — Hanover

I would have thought it would turn into a trench coat. My neighbor the rabbi has a wallet that turns into a suitcase when he caresses it, everyone wonders where the material came from to make it.

Excellent, best answer. It hadn't occurred to me that it was related to father. — Jamal

Actually it is not the opposite, it is a different set in the same category.

Actually it is not the opposite, it is a different set in the same category. — Sir2u

Haha! Probably... I thought i was making the word “matronizing” up until checking the definition. :wink:

I've been wanting to post a picture of an apple.

I've been wanting to post a picture of an apple. — Caldwell

This is not an apple.

This is not an apple. — T Clark

What is it ?

A potato is an apple of the ground in French, so that's a tree potato.

Edna Krabappel.

Pomme de terre.

C'est beau, hein?

Edna Krabappel. — Hanover

This is not Edna Krabappel.

What is it ? — Caldwell

An artistic reference to show how erudous, erodant, smart I am.

An artistic reference — T Clark

This is not an artistic reference.

I've been wanting to post a picture of an apple. — Caldwell

This is an Apple!

Just in case you need your apple to be red:

This is not an artistic reference. — Jamal

This is not not an artistic reference.

This is not not an artistic reference — Hanover

Neither is not this.

This is not a knot.

And this is not a test! Run to the nearest exit, panic, say your prayers, and wet yourself.

Thanks for asking, but yes, the hand is healing well without any problems.

There are like 10 people on this whole Shoutbox and I tell you guys about my trauma and no one says anything after a day or so.

Jesus.

This is not an artistic reference. — Jamal

This is not not an artistic reference. — Hanover

Geez. I make a serious, erod... smart, comment and you guys ruin it with all this lame, ham-handed ridicule. No wonder @god must be atheist has been staying away. He was right. You're all just a bunch of intellectual gnats. As he noted:

Sheer, unadulterated, pure-as-white stupidity at its clearest, completely unsoiled form. — god must be atheist

He has an IQ of 272 you know.

He was right. You're all just a bunch of intellectual gnats. As he noted: — T Clark

This comment was offensive to gnats.

You shouldn't have said that. They're people too.

You're all just a bunch of intellectual gnats. — T Clark

I’m really more of an intellectual mosquito...

with the blood-sucking
and the disease-spreading
and the getting-in-your-ear-with-the-high-pitched-screaming-noises
kind of thing.

But all in good fun! :nerd:

I’m really more of an intellectual mosquito — 0 thru 9

I think of myself as an intellectual giant squid: I have numerous mental tentacles and I can go very deep.