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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Bring on the Tragedy! Shakespeare on Facebook
I recently read the complete works of William Shakespeare. It took me 2 years, 9 months, and 18 days. I talked about it a lot on Facebook.
In June of 2013, I commenced reading the tragedies.
That’s a bad idea.
All kinds of crazy men.
It dawns on me that more tragedy awaits.
A letter to a star-crossed lover.
Pickings from the Pick-up Line Collection: Part 1
The Origins
When I was in college, my roommates and I got tired of looking at the bare cinder block walls of our apartment.
So, we started writing down and hanging up all the cheesy pick-up lines we knew or had heard. Our friends and visitors contributed their own cheesy pick-up lines to the wall.
Pretty soon, our Pick-up Line Wall of Shame became something of a miniature tourist attraction in our apartment building.
As I was going through my quote file the other day—looking for something else entirely—I came across a rubber-banded bundle of paper that was the remains of the long-since dismantled wall of pick-up lines.
Because reading them made me laugh, I here present choice selections from the Pick-up Line Wall of Shame, circa 2003.
The Pickings
If I could rearrange the alphabet, I’d put “U” and “I” together.
Wouldn’t we look cute on a wedding cake together?
Kill me if you must, but death, next to love, is a trivial thing.
(Name the movie! Extra points to the guy who uses a movie quote as pick-up line.)
If I followed you home, would you keep me?
Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?
Some More Words I Learned from Sir Walter Scott
As I was reading Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott, I came across the following words, which sent me to the dictionaries and the encyclopedias.
Achan
A man mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Joshua in connection with the fall of Jericho and conquest of Ai. (Wikipedia)
Ci-devant
From or in an earlier time (used to indicate that someone or something once possessed a specified characteristic but no longer does so.) (Oxford Dictionaries, Wikipedia)
Erastianism
The doctrine that the state is superior to the church in ecclesiastical matters. It is named after the 16th-century Swiss physician and Zwinglian theologian Thomas Erastus, who never held such a doctrine. (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Kailbrose
A traditional Scottish dish of creamed kale and oats (Celtnet Recipes; How Stuff Works, Visit Dunkeld) [I may have to try these kale brose recipes!]
Prelatist
A person who supported an episcopal view church government (Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, EHow)
Sybo
A spring onion (Dictionary.com)
Vidette
A mounted sentry in advance of the outposts of an army. (The Free Dictionary)
