"Casa del Fuggem" Part 2 of The Legacy

[Endrik]

that's why I love Europe... I don't pay a dime for healthcare... if government exists and wants to take taxes from the people then they better provide something for the people too, so it would be a fair deal... starting with the most important things like making food, clothes, education and everything which involves health affordable to everyone.

[john.w.lawson]

Right before I got into Into Eternity they had a concert here and it was 5 bucks a ticket.

I do the "ouch" thing actually. It does work. She seems to like me better than my parents but that's because I've been home with her so much because of finals. We've got so many toys for her. I want to get rawhides but my mom doesn't because she think's they'll make the puppy sick. We used to always get them for my old dogs and they never got sick. My puppy's just terrified of going for walks. She's the shyest dog I've ever seen. I can get her to go for a bit but there's a lot of dogs in the area and they scare her. She'll get over it soon I'm sure. She's gonna be huge compared to my old dogs which the bigger of the two was 40 pounds. Sheba's gonna be 80+. Fun stuff.

Mine is 120+fun,and not scared of nothingGSD.

[atomic charvel guy]

The Braille thing was , uh, "tongue in cheek" so to speak.
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

[RacerX]

Well I didn't find an exact article on Straight Dope, Tommy, but this one popped up, and I think it's more appropos to this thread

Why is Satan often shown as having goatlike features?

June 4, 1999
Dear Cecil:
What's the deal with Satan and goats? In some pictures Satan has a goatee, horns, and hooves like a goat's. I don't read the Bible much, but is there a part where it says goats are evil or something like that? I'd like to know.
— Jimmy Anderson, Arkansas
Dear Jimmy:
I don't know what it is with goats. You get my goat. Old goat. Scapegoat. Bible (well, New Testament) scholars will remember Matthew 25:31-33: "the Son of Man . . . will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left," the goats presumably headed for eternal damnation. The preachers say this is because sheep are obedient whereas goats are ornery and do their own thing. Also, goats have--one must speak frankly--prominent genitals. Sheep, on the other hand . . . sheepish? Sheep to the slaughter? Sorry, babe, but I'd rather be a goat.
All that having been said, the connection between Satan and goats is indirect. The goatlike features commonly attributed to the devil derive from the Greek pastoral deity Pan, who was half man, half goat. I have here a picture of a sixth-century Coptic ivory carving of Pan, and if you take away the pipes and give him a pitchfork, you're looking at the devil, complete with cloven hooves, hairy legs, horns, and beard. Oh, and prominent genitals, too.
The phallic aspects tend to get airbrushed out of the modern picture of ol' Scratch, but let's not kid ourselves. When Christian artists pondered the most dangerous and subversive of the deadly sins, they weren't thinking of securities fraud. It was only natural that they should seize on the frankly sexual figure of Pan. (I'm thinking here of Pan-as-old-lech, not the romanticized Disney version.) I mean, if you want a truly disturbing portrait of wickedness, what are you going to pick up on, mass murder? Too alien. Whereas sexual license . . . I'm not pointing any fingers, but this is a topic to which a lot of us can relate. Pan also had the advantage of being pagan, and since time immemorial the gods of one age have been the demons of the next.
Satan wasn't drawn strictly from Pan, and for that matter portraits of the devil weren't as consistent as today's highly stylized version might suggest. Artists of centuries past, like Hollywood special-effects geniuses today, tended to be pretty eclectic in their search for frightening imagery. If you look through medieval woodcuts and such, you see a devil who's often claw footed, with a long pointed tail and sometimes wings--more on the order of a gargoyle. His color varies, too, though Satan was frequently portrayed as either black or red--black being the color of death, and red no doubt suggesting blood and carnality. The trident probably comes from Neptune. I could give you a long list of other precedents from ancient iconography, but let's skip that. The trick in portraying Satan has always been simple enough. You want a critter of which one thinks: Ooh, that's scary. But also: You know, I can see the appeal.
— Cecil Adams

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1327/why-is-satan-often-shown-as-having-goatlike-features

prominent genitals

[bibz]

Holy shit thats the best bandname ever! ladies and gentlemen.....please get ready for prominent genitals!

[RacerX]

Whoa guys, this thread almost dropped to page 2!

Hey I just received a pic of Bill's cat! Ready? Scroll down

































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[Ben...]

That's pretty good!

[Cleveland Metal]

BillZ sez...

[Ben...]

Jon Lovitz can be pretty funny.

[horns666]

Thanks to my uberbroseph for sending me my new monitor. I got it yesterday, and haven't hooked it up yet. My wife talked to Tommy when I was outside motherfuggin mother nature, and giving her the finger for dumping a foot of snow on my ass..while I have the stomach flu. There is NOTHING worse than having to snowblow while having the shitz!!!

Then my snowblower fuggin broke. I am NOT having a good day! I need to roll a fatty! Its been a while since I did that.

Thank you Tommy..you fuggin' rule supreme man!!!

Broseppi "Sweet William", (that's the name he put on the UPS package)..

OK..I gotta go lay down now. Man, I'm about to KILL my fuggin' kid. He sucks ass today!!!

[Davey]

He sucks ass today!!!

whos ass?

and that cat picture is hilarious!

[Ben...]

What did dear Vinny do now?

You're lucky you get to use a snow blower. I get to shovel. Mother Nature likes to drop 2 feet of snow at a time on us. It takes me 45 minutes to walk home because the stupid paths are never cleared as opposed to 20 minutes when it's nice. At least it's not ridiculously hot. That's when I get miserable.

[atomic charvel guy]

Anytime Sweet William.

You guys can have all of the snow.
Fukk that stuff. I'll pass.

[lerxstcat]

You got a,lifetime ration of snow as a kid, Tommy. I know the novelty wears off fast. We get enough to stick on the ground here once every 10-20 years, and it's gone in a day. I'm already getting tired of it by the time it melts 24 hours later.

This year we got tiny flurries in december, nothing sticking. 30 miles to the north they had snow on the ground, and 50 miles up they had 6" which stuck for a day.

I wasn't anxious to hop in a car and drive to the snow, that's for sure.....

[atomic charvel guy]

Sometimes i get sentimental and shovel the concrete out here for about 30 min.
Silly? Yes, but the noise does headache many, especially at 4 a.m.-lol