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foolish_m0rtalResearch for an Engineering writing class called The History of Wine. Yeah, I KNOW, right! It sounds like a humanities class. And all the other classes are like, scientific ethics and similar things. I don't know how this got past the engineering board, but I am SO happy to be enjoying a class for once.
1) Is there a patron saint of finding things you've dropped on the floor?
2) This sentence is AWESOME:
A supposed relationship between Praxiteles and his beautiful model, the Thespian courtesan Phryne, has inspired speculation and interpretation in works of art ranging from painting (Gérôme) to opera (Saint-Saëns) to shadow puppetry (Donnay)
Shadow Puppets = WIN; Donnay, you mustachioed French dramatist/engineer, you!
3) Was researching Semele: THIS is the coolest freaking painting EVER. Reminds me a little of a mandala. Just LOOK at all the DETAIL. Bravo, Monsieur Moreau, bravo!
Incredibly downsized image of Zeus and Semele by Gustave Moreau
(yeah, that's Hera down there with the bloody sword. Dammit, Hera!)
4) The Greek gods have a lot of epithets (i.e, other names by which they're called. Like Apollo is also called Phoebus, and Aurora is often called 'rosy fingered')
I wish I had an epithet. I would be a demi-goddess like Ilithios (Foolish). And I would be the patron goddess of feeling like an idiot. I could have epithets like Awkward Ilithios and 'caffeine-eyed.' ACT-ually, I would then probably be rubbed out of history by the invading Christians and turned into a Christian saint instead. Saint Follia! And I would be the patron saint of finding things you've dropped on the floor! YES.
Note: Foolish really does come from follis, which is Latin for 'bag.' Yes, this is also where the word follicle comes from. Don't look at me- I don't derive these words, I just take the classes! It's true, dudes!
5) Mythology resource quotes: "Poseidon lost the control over the sky to his brother, Zeus. Poseidon was slow on the draw and lost Athens to Athena. Was Poseidon a loser?"
"Apollo was no Casanova or Don Juan, he simply did not have “a way with women.” Apollo attempted to love many women by only succeeded in “loving” a few."
Aww, I would love you, Apollo... (I should probably take that back before I get visited by a swan or something o_O)
6) From the title of two articles for my research into 1700s slang:
"Tonight, We're Gonna Party Like it's 1669!"
"Binge Drinking? Blame it on the Anglicans."
7) From the manuscript I'm studying. The poem talks about a plumber that melted down the statues of Venus and Apollo to make metal products:
"When, in sheets, he roll'd love's mother; when, in pipes, Diana's brother."
First I thought, "Oh, pretty way of putting it....wait a MINUTE!"
O///O Ahhhh, 18th century dirty jokes! Awkward! Awkward! I don't want to think about some colonial dude in a powerdered wig snickering over his quill pen like, "Oh ho chuckle! What an utterly capital dog am I! John Adams shall break yon rib."
If this doesn't warrant a "At First I Was Like...But then I Lol'd," (or perhaps I Serious'd) I don't know what does. My second thought was, "Oh great, I can't put THIS in my paper..."
But I still laughed guiltily for like, two minutes. Well played, Mr. Bolling. Well played.
Note for people who still don't get it: Venus was the goddess of sexytimez and (EDIT) Apollo famously took out his rock star lyre and pwn3d Pan and his pipes in a face off.
Greek mythology devolved into Internet speak. Do I know no shame? (the answer is NO)
Special feature to apologise for me messing up Apollo's mythology: Pan being a creeper, as usual
Run away, Daphnis! Don't be a statistic! 1 in 4 Greek shepherds, that's all I'm saying.
It only occurs to me now that Pan is like That Guy in the neighbourhood with the beat up blacked out windowed van and the free candy and the weird looking dogs and the freaky smile...
And everyone's like "Goddamit, it's Pan. Come on guys, let's go smoke somewhere else."
But you can't really be openly warlike with him. And he's always following slowly behind in the van, in a low smoker's voice, "hey. hey, guys. heyy. Whatcha doin'? heyyyy."
It's interesting how a lot of the greek female statues I've seen are kind of lumpy and awkward but all the male statues are so well put together and just seem to FLOW really prettily.
Really? Greeks? You guys weren't fooling anybody. You should have just spared everyone the misery, chiseled out a dude, and then made some modifications to made it a woman. (Actually, this is probably why all the women look so AWKWARD)
No wonder all the ancient Greeks are dead. It's called the kill curve, and I had to learn all about it for Jurassic park fics. I'm sure we'll someday unearth the fossils of the ancient Greeks and uncover their diaries that have "I HEART Socrates" all over them. Jeez, guys. Parmenides was SO totally hotter.
*sigh* It's probably a good thing I'm not in the arts & sciences. I enjoy researching a lot, especially for humanities subjects, and I"m pretty sure if I took a lot of humanities classes, I would have some kind of researching seizure and geek out all over the damn place. I still took like...four hours to research this because I was getting interested in random tangents.
1) Is there a patron saint of finding things you've dropped on the floor?
2) This sentence is AWESOME:
A supposed relationship between Praxiteles and his beautiful model, the Thespian courtesan Phryne, has inspired speculation and interpretation in works of art ranging from painting (Gérôme) to opera (Saint-Saëns) to shadow puppetry (Donnay)
Shadow Puppets = WIN; Donnay, you mustachioed French dramatist/engineer, you!
3) Was researching Semele: THIS is the coolest freaking painting EVER. Reminds me a little of a mandala. Just LOOK at all the DETAIL. Bravo, Monsieur Moreau, bravo!
Incredibly downsized image of Zeus and Semele by Gustave Moreau
(yeah, that's Hera down there with the bloody sword. Dammit, Hera!)
4) The Greek gods have a lot of epithets (i.e, other names by which they're called. Like Apollo is also called Phoebus, and Aurora is often called 'rosy fingered')
I wish I had an epithet. I would be a demi-goddess like Ilithios (Foolish). And I would be the patron goddess of feeling like an idiot. I could have epithets like Awkward Ilithios and 'caffeine-eyed.' ACT-ually, I would then probably be rubbed out of history by the invading Christians and turned into a Christian saint instead. Saint Follia! And I would be the patron saint of finding things you've dropped on the floor! YES.
Note: Foolish really does come from follis, which is Latin for 'bag.' Yes, this is also where the word follicle comes from. Don't look at me- I don't derive these words, I just take the classes! It's true, dudes!
5) Mythology resource quotes: "Poseidon lost the control over the sky to his brother, Zeus. Poseidon was slow on the draw and lost Athens to Athena. Was Poseidon a loser?"
"Apollo was no Casanova or Don Juan, he simply did not have “a way with women.” Apollo attempted to love many women by only succeeded in “loving” a few."
Aww, I would love you, Apollo... (I should probably take that back before I get visited by a swan or something o_O)
6) From the title of two articles for my research into 1700s slang:
"Tonight, We're Gonna Party Like it's 1669!"
"Binge Drinking? Blame it on the Anglicans."
7) From the manuscript I'm studying. The poem talks about a plumber that melted down the statues of Venus and Apollo to make metal products:
"When, in sheets, he roll'd love's mother; when, in pipes, Diana's brother."
First I thought, "Oh, pretty way of putting it....wait a MINUTE!"
O///O Ahhhh, 18th century dirty jokes! Awkward! Awkward! I don't want to think about some colonial dude in a powerdered wig snickering over his quill pen like, "Oh ho chuckle! What an utterly capital dog am I! John Adams shall break yon rib."
If this doesn't warrant a "At First I Was Like...But then I Lol'd," (or perhaps I Serious'd) I don't know what does. My second thought was, "Oh great, I can't put THIS in my paper..."
But I still laughed guiltily for like, two minutes. Well played, Mr. Bolling. Well played.
Note for people who still don't get it: Venus was the goddess of sexytimez and (EDIT) Apollo famously took out his rock star lyre and pwn3d Pan and his pipes in a face off.
Greek mythology devolved into Internet speak. Do I know no shame? (the answer is NO)
Special feature to apologise for me messing up Apollo's mythology: Pan being a creeper, as usual
Run away, Daphnis! Don't be a statistic! 1 in 4 Greek shepherds, that's all I'm saying.
It only occurs to me now that Pan is like That Guy in the neighbourhood with the beat up blacked out windowed van and the free candy and the weird looking dogs and the freaky smile...
And everyone's like "Goddamit, it's Pan. Come on guys, let's go smoke somewhere else."
But you can't really be openly warlike with him. And he's always following slowly behind in the van, in a low smoker's voice, "hey. hey, guys. heyy. Whatcha doin'? heyyyy."
It's interesting how a lot of the greek female statues I've seen are kind of lumpy and awkward but all the male statues are so well put together and just seem to FLOW really prettily.
Really? Greeks? You guys weren't fooling anybody. You should have just spared everyone the misery, chiseled out a dude, and then made some modifications to made it a woman. (Actually, this is probably why all the women look so AWKWARD)
No wonder all the ancient Greeks are dead. It's called the kill curve, and I had to learn all about it for Jurassic park fics. I'm sure we'll someday unearth the fossils of the ancient Greeks and uncover their diaries that have "I HEART Socrates" all over them. Jeez, guys. Parmenides was SO totally hotter.
*sigh* It's probably a good thing I'm not in the arts & sciences. I enjoy researching a lot, especially for humanities subjects, and I"m pretty sure if I took a lot of humanities classes, I would have some kind of researching seizure and geek out all over the damn place. I still took like...four hours to research this because I was getting interested in random tangents.
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Date: 2010-01-06 05:56 am (UTC)I do know there is Anoia, the Ankh-Morpork Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers. XD So I wouldn't be suprised if there's a patron saint of finding things you drop on the floor.
"When, in sheets, he roll'd love's mother; when, in pipes, Diana's brother."
My Grace-muse cackled delightedly at that one and urges me to find a way to use it in the RP some day so she can watch everyone's faces as they figure out how that sounds. lol
Thanks for the laughs, Fomo-Chan. (Look! I've knicknamed you! I looked upon you and declared, "I shall call you Fomo-Chan. And I shall be smited for it. But I shall call you Fomo-Chan regardless!)
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Date: 2010-01-06 06:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-06 07:33 am (UTC)Also, that tag, "Geeks Out" made me remember this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m0WE4pQEao).
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Date: 2010-01-06 08:36 pm (UTC)A-h-h, poor Aizawa! I have frequently been the Aizawa in my group, and I empathise with his sense of loss, that crushing dark defeat in the floorboards of his heart...
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Date: 2010-01-06 09:07 pm (UTC)I wonder which charactor I'm most like...
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Date: 2010-01-07 06:22 am (UTC)and I did break yon rib.
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Date: 2010-01-07 06:37 am (UTC)Good memories, though...