various randomnesses

[rymenhild]

For reasons better left unplumbed, my MP3 player just started playing "Rubber Duckie." I think I have discarded my longstanding Ernie/Bert OTP for a much more canon Ernie/Duckie.

Also in the bizarre pairings department, fleurdelis28 informs me that certain rabbis believed that Balaam, the prophet in

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For reasons better left unplumbed, my MP3 player just started playing "Rubber Duckie." I think I have discarded my longstanding Ernie/Bert OTP for a much more canon Ernie/Duckie.

Also in the bizarre pairings department, <lj site="livejournal.com" user="fleurdelis28"> informs me that certain rabbis believed that Balaam, the prophet in <a href-"http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0422.htm">this week's Torah reading</a>*, was sleeping with his donkey. <lj site="livejournal.com" user="deborah_judge">, if you're looking for more subjects to write on after you're done with the Estherfic, the donkey and Balaam are waiting for you.

A snippet of random AIM conversation with Fleurdelis:

me: i figure there's nothing wrong with
words being lost
Fleurdelis28: lol
me: but then again, i like my languages dead
or mortally ill
Fleurdelis28: LOL
me: that sounds really wrong, somehow
Fleurdelis28: yeah
Fleurdelis28: lol
Fleurdelis28: some sort of weird fetish
Fleurdelis28: linguistic necrophilia

That is all.

*In Jewish tradition, passages of the Torah, or Bible, are read every week on an annual cycle that includes all five books of Moses.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

navelofwine SO gets credit for that one. (Informing of the donkey midrash, that is.)

Also worth noting that the conversational snippet was itself totally unrelated, having to do with perfectly respectable words which subsequently become obscene. :)

[a-trick-mind.livejournal.com]

Hmm, none of my rabbis ever mentioned a donkey midrash. Is that called the Hee Haw midrash? LOL Who knows. There are a lot of pervs in the Bible.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I never heard it either. Gotta love theology.

[terebinth.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. How can a diety who's not supposed to exist, and who apparently doens't even have a zippo lighter, be sleeping with a donkey? I mean, even if the donkey exists, I don't think that would be enough to make the non-existent-diety who's supposedly sleeping with it exist.

[navelofwine.livejournal.com]

LOL! Actually, Bilaam is a Midianite prophet, not a deity.

shoot

[terebinth.livejournal.com]

Mia culpa. I could have sworn I read 'Baal.' Bilaam makes a lot more sense, although why anyone would want to... ahem... with that shrew of a donkey...

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

The interesting thing is that Balaam, who was not Jewish, seems to have believed in the Jewish G-d. I wonder whether he was a polytheist or whether the definition of Judaism was just sloppier then. Anyone know? Navelofwine?

polytheism

[terebinth.livejournal.com]

I think it was just sloppier. There are several references to people of other nations being impressed with the Jewish creator. There's Malkitzedek in Genesis 14.18, and there are all those sailors in Johah:

Sailors: Hey Jackson, stop sleeping and start praying. We need all the help we can get with this storm. Who's your god, anyway?

Jonah: I'm Jewish. Oh, and it's my god making this storm.

Sailors: *Very afraid* The Jewish god? Oh man! We're fishbait.

OOC Moderator Mode: Engaged

[aj_crawley]

As far as I can see, you applied to join milliways_bar with your personal journal. What you need to do is create a separate journal for the character you want to play as, and then apply for membership with that.

Re: OOC Moderator Mode: Engaged

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Oops. I actually did that, realized my mistake, and applied again with the correct journal - I'm mydearguil. Sorry about that.

Re: OOC Moderator Mode: Engaged

[aj_crawley]

Ah, that explains it. I just had a bit of a O_o moment when I saw this journal on the 'pending members' list.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

I have unreasonably fond memories of that song. I think that Bert/Ernie counts as my first-ever slash pairing. Never underestimate the perception of a toddler.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

We seem to have a number of pairing overlaps. I wrote papers about the sexual tension between Gawain and Bertilak years before I discovered slash. :)

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

*quiet squee*

And while I did not write a paper on Gawain and Bertilak, I did write this: Hidden Favor, a befuddled romance in three parts.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Oh, you wrote Hidden Favor! In that case, I probably already told you I ship Gawain/Green Knight. If I didn't, I apologize for neglecting to mention it, and congratulate you on a lovely fic with a Very Canon Ship.

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

...yaaah. I didn't get this comment till after I replied to the one wherein you said you wrote a paper. So, you've found my misadventures already *hides under the desk*

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

You ship. Gawain. /Green Knight. (hides)
ohmy. Rec that pairing, can you?

Whoops, I posted with my sodding character journal. Obviously, I left all my smart at work.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

As far as I know, ninglor's the only person who's ever written it. This is a large hole, given that Gawain and Bertilak kiss six times in canon. I'd consider writing some, except that I love the Pearl-poet's language too much to let myself rewrite his ideas in modern English, and I'm not nearly good enough in that particular dialect to write in it myself. (Besides, no one would read it.)

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

(I'd read it. I'm starved for it. Feeding oneself only goes so far.)

[muchabstracted.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I think this is a great icon. (Yay, doooooooom! Um, in a manner of speaking.)

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (our own dear Rymenhild made it.)

Arrrr, matey.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

I think I have discarded my longstanding Ernie/Bert OTP for a much more canon Ernie/Duckie.

Wow, that's distressing!
*laugh*

My son has a Hanukkah book written in English, Hebrew and Yiddish (with transliterations). He loves it when we read him the Hebrew, and now he's walking around saing, "E-had!" all the time. :)