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18 July 2007 in Notes, Religion by Stilgherrian | 2 comments
While exploring cyberhymnal.org — part of the explorations that’s following our conversation about the Latin Mass and church music — I was suddenly confronted by this Bible quote: “Behold, I come quickly. (Revelation 22:12)” I laughed out loud. How grubby.
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21 November 2008 in Internet, Politics, Stilgherrian Live
I’m surprised. I thought that given Senator Conroy’s three-in-a-row victory as “Cnut of the week”, this week’s winner would be Clive Hamilton for his irrational rant in favour of Internet censorship in Crikey yesterday. But no.
Hamilton is certainly Cnutworthy, trying to hold back two strong tides of change: the change of the Internet, which will [...]
21 November 2008 in Internet, Notes, Politics
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20 November 2008 in Stilgherrian Live
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20 November 2008 in Daily Links
Stilgherrian’s links for 19 November 2008 through 20 November 2008, gathered despite the rain:
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18 November 2008 in Sydney
As long as I can remember, the bridge over the railway at Newtown Square, Sydney, has been covered in posters. Last week the posters were stripped, it was painted a dreary shit-brown — and then a phone number appeared. Last night this paste-up protest appeared too.
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20 July 2007 at 12:16 pm
Richard
Excellent.
My first impulse was to rush off and search for other Biblical double entendres.
Then I realised I don’t have a Bible in the house. I do, however, have a book about rocket research in the Third Reich sitting on my desk as I type this.
Make of that what you will.
In any case, you may have inspired a new parlour game.
20 July 2007 at 1:44 pm
Stilgherrian
@Richard: Well, I do have a Bible, a King James version to be precise. But then I have all sorts of subversive literature. Right now I’m reading Hunter S Thompson’s Better Than Sex: confessions of a political junkie. Make of that what you will.
As for the parlour game, I have a theory. One sentence in 3 in spoken English can be converted into a double entendre by adding these words at the end: “said the actress to the bishop.”