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Posts by Celia
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24Faith and the Meaning of Life For Bozos
by Farkel inone who accepts it is either called a ?true believer,?
god is by nature ?good.?
satan is by nature ?bad.?
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The poster who you find the FUNNIEST here, and why?
by outbutnotdown inof course, different people enjoy different types of humour, so there will be a wide variety of responses, but if you could mention why you find that person funny, personally, it would be appreciated.. i would have to say that i have to pick two people.
i enjoy having humour displayed in a tasteful manner, but with wit.
a life-lesson taught with a laugh is about as good as it gets, imo, even if i am not capable of accomplishing that very well myself.
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Celia
Unclebruce Seven006 Farkel
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Celia
Congratulations Valis ! What do you teach ? Just curious...
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Silly Quiz Question...
by Englishman inok, try this one.. michaelangelo's statue of david.
you know the one, somewhere in italy?
if you look closely, actually very closely, you'll notice something unusual about this statue.. david has got a very, very, tiny willy!.
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Celia
Mortons
it is a great idea.... but not so easy to find good questions....
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Silly Quiz Question...
by Englishman inok, try this one.. michaelangelo's statue of david.
you know the one, somewhere in italy?
if you look closely, actually very closely, you'll notice something unusual about this statue.. david has got a very, very, tiny willy!.
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Celia
Woooowooo.... I won, I won.... I never win anything.... Oh wait, I once won a stuffed Smurf responding to questions by Valis The little blue guy is still there on the shelf overlooking the dining room table...
I'll send you a pm Englishman...
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Silly Quiz Question...
by Englishman inok, try this one.. michaelangelo's statue of david.
you know the one, somewhere in italy?
if you look closely, actually very closely, you'll notice something unusual about this statue.. david has got a very, very, tiny willy!.
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Celia
UncleBruce: Where have you been all this time?
Actually I think I know the right answer: David is depicted as getting ready to go into battle, and the stress of it made his thingy shrink...
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Silly Quiz Question...
by Englishman inok, try this one.. michaelangelo's statue of david.
you know the one, somewhere in italy?
if you look closely, actually very closely, you'll notice something unusual about this statue.. david has got a very, very, tiny willy!.
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Celia
Maybe, as the statue was carved out of one block of marble, there wasn't enough marble at that particular spot to do anything larger.... ?
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Silly Quiz Question...
by Englishman inok, try this one.. michaelangelo's statue of david.
you know the one, somewhere in italy?
if you look closely, actually very closely, you'll notice something unusual about this statue.. david has got a very, very, tiny willy!.
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Celia
Because the model was cold, standing there naked for hours and hours....
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'Beyond The Da Vinci Code' [now, on History channel]
by sf inhey golf, you will enjoy this.
hope you can tune in my friend.
skally
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Celia
Leolaia .................. Wow !!! Thank You for the great research...
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'Beyond The Da Vinci Code' [now, on History channel]
by sf inhey golf, you will enjoy this.
hope you can tune in my friend.
skally
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Celia
I was also bemused at how the "Holy Grail-is-really-the-royal-bloodline" thesis was never really challenged, the arguments against it were never discussed. Such as, for instance, that the etymology of "grail" has nothing whatsoever to do with a bloodline (it comes ultimately from Latin cratalis "vessel," with Late Latin gradalis and Old French grazale as intermediate forms of the Burgundian French graal, which was the dialect spoken by Robert de Boron who first wrote about the Grail story), or that the story about the Grail itself comes directly from older Celtic legends.
Page 277, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent et.al.
In many of the earlier manuscripts, the Grail is called the Sangraal; and even in the later version by Malory it is called the Sangreal. It is likely that some such form ? Sangraal or Sangreal ? was in fact the original one. It is also likely that that one word was subsequently broken in the wrong place. In other words, ?Sangraal? or ?Sangreal? may not have been intended to divide into ?San Graal? or ?San Greal? ? but into ?Sang Raal? or ?Sang Real?. Or, to employ the modern spelling, Sang Royal. Royal Blood.
In itself such wordplay might be provocative but hardly conclusive. Taken in conjunction with the emphasis on genealogy and lineage, however, there is not much room for doubt. And for that matter, the traditional associations ? the cup that caught Jesus? blood, for instance ? would seem to reinforce this supposition. Quite clearly, the Grail would appear to pertain in some way to blood and a bloodline.
Too bad I don't get the History Channel, I would love to see it.