Hagiography

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Postby skinem » Fri Nov 10, 2006 11:53 am

Hagiography--I thought it was the study of old ladies...

(I know. Now I'll get letters.)
skinem, skinem, skinem. What are we going to do with you, except jump the hedge and run with your post? Etymonline has this smorgasboard on hag.
-gailr
Thank you for the link! You're obviously no hag who can be hedged in! (I mean to say you're no hag. Period. No one who can be hedged in. I'm not hedging here. I think I'll shut up before I get deeper.)

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Postby skinem » Fri Nov 10, 2006 12:16 pm

By the way,portokalos, that is beautiful work! Yours?

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Words as shovels..

Postby eberntson » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:13 pm

Skinny - have you ever heard the expression, stop while you "are ahead", which I believe has it's root in the ancient Norman phase "Stop whilst ye' have a head!". It is also related to the hag... Witch trials, where witnesses reported that they had been tuned into newts... Although they "Got Better", in this modern age you have no such guarantees... beware of the "pox"! :wink:
EBERNTSON
Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns

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Postby eberntson » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:15 pm

portokalos wrote:
Just see.
http://www.iconet.gr/mambo/index.php?op ... &Itemid=34

Hey that is an impressive site... got any more?

-Eric
EBERNTSON
Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns

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Re: Words as shovels..

Postby sluggo » Sat Nov 11, 2006 12:46 am

Skinny - have you ever heard the expression, stop while you "are ahead", which I believe has it's* root in the ancient Norman phase "Stop whilst ye' have a head!". ..
Or as they say in Texan: "when you find yerself in a hole, first thing to do is quit diggin'."

*aaagh! <<aaagiography?
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots! Knife no one, fink!

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Postby portokalos » Mon Nov 13, 2006 2:36 am

"What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov

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Postby portokalos » Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:00 am

Do you want more?
"What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov

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Just a smidgen

Postby eberntson » Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:03 am

Those sites are nice too, just a couple more would be appreciated..

Eric
EBERNTSON
Fear less, hope more;
eat less, chew more;
whine less, breathe more;
talk less, say more,
and all good things will be yours.
--R. Burns

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Postby portokalos » Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:36 am

"What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky-The Brothers Karamazov


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