Showing posts with label philology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philology. Show all posts
Friday, May 31, 2013

You Can't Always Trust the National Geographic

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      It is true, you cannot always trust what you read in magazines, even a magazine like National Geographic. I was sitting at a tire pla...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

The 'N' Word

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     I just heard that Mississippi has finally filed the paperwork to properly ratify the 13th Amendment which abolishes slavery. They rati...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Ashes to Ashes

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...and dust to dust.... Most of you would be able to finish this line. Usually there is a little poem that I read on a bathroom wall which ...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

The End of Days

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The Apocalypse: It's not what you think          When people are not talking about Christmas, they have been ta...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

The Other 'F' Word: Fart

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     One thing that people often find more fascinating than where common phrases and words come is where the naughty words or 'not poli...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Vomitrocious

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I can't let the entire month of August go by without one post so here it is: I was watching old Seinfeld episodes and, in one of t...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

The Honey Moon

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I was watching a television show called "Museum Secrets" that showed some of the permanent collection from the Neues Museum i...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Greek Squirrels

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I took a trip to the library and found that the entries in the Dictionary of Old English do not contain etymologies. Darn and double da...