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How to Gird Up Your Loins: An Illustrated Guide
The Art of Manliness ^
| October 2, 2014
| AoM Team
Posted on 10/03/2014 9:59:57 AM PDT by EveningStar
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If you've read the Bible, then you've probably come across the phrase "gird up your loins." I've always thought it was a funny turn of phrase. Loins….heh.
Back in the days of the ancient Near East, both men and women wore flowing tunics.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: bible; girdupyourloins; history; loins; tunic; tunics
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro
To: EveningStar
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:03:44 AM PDT
by
married21
( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: EveningStar
Gird up your loins means to stop acting like a man in a dress and get ready to battle, something that men have forgotten in the age of the feminist ascendancy.
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:04:48 AM PDT
by
DaveyB
("When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
To: EveningStar
Thanks a lot. This is great information
To: EveningStar
LOL, I read that at first as “How to grill up your lions”....................
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:07:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: EveningStar
When I first glanced at the headline I read it as: "How to Girl Up Your Loins", and I thought: "I sure hope SI doesn't include TOO many illustrations of THAT surgery..."
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:09:43 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:26:05 AM PDT
by
dware
(3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
To: Kartographer; SunkenCiv
Lol. Kart...NM my ping. Got you mixed up with SunkenCiv. HA! Gotta get my ping lists straight.
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:28:21 AM PDT
by
dware
(3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
To: SunkenCiv
I keep forgetting to ping you (slapping myself in the head).
To: EveningStar
I was thinking Gild up your loins, gold leaf
or powder?
In the old days of Knights, the steel armor they
wore made them invulnerable so they could only be
attacked when they weren’t wearing it.
The only time they weren’t wearing any was when they
did their laundry.
Hence the saying, “Strike while they iron his socks!”
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:33:49 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: EveningStar
Just spent 30 minutes at that site, thanks. Learned how to engage in small talk, field dress a rabbit and how to escape zip tie handcuffs. Good stuff!
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:37:18 AM PDT
by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
10/03/2014 10:48:48 AM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: EveningStar
Warning, MEN!
While duct tape is a man’s best friend...you are not encouraged to use it when girding up your loins.
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posted on
10/03/2014 11:04:45 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Red Badger
I don’t believe that is advisable...
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posted on
10/03/2014 11:06:17 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: tet68
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posted on
10/03/2014 11:27:11 AM PDT
by
60Gunner
(The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
To: moovova
Hot glue is definitely out as well.
To: EveningStar
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posted on
10/03/2014 11:40:00 AM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: Red Badger
Use a good marinade to grill up your loins.
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posted on
10/04/2014 7:43:18 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: tet68
In the old days of Knights, the steel armor they wore made them invulnerable so they could only be attacked when they weren’t wearing it. The only time they weren’t wearing any was when they did their laundry. Hence the saying, “Strike while they iron his socks!”In days of old, when knights were bold,
and rubbers were not invented,
he'd tie a sock around thy cock,
thus babies were prevented.
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posted on
10/04/2014 7:52:44 AM PDT
by
Rodamala
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