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Report: Jesus Spoke With Spectacular British Accent
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| 11/17/2013
Posted on 11/17/2013 5:15:36 PM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley
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posted on
11/17/2013 5:48:39 PM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: markomalley
Good satire, but I must say that this actor, Robert Powell was extraordinary in this most impossible of roles. His eyes alone were very moving. Jesus of Nazareth was a great miniseries.
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posted on
11/17/2013 5:50:52 PM PST
by
untwist
(One Bad-Assed Mistake, America!)
To: markomalley
To: null and void
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posted on
11/17/2013 5:55:55 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(2013-14 Tiber Swim Team)
To: markomalley
Years ago in Ireland, there was a priest who was very anti-British. Every Sunday he would blast them from the pulpit. He became so notorious that the Pope himself summoned the priest to Rome for an audience.
"Father," said the Pope, "I want that there should be peace between the British and the Irish. You're not helping matters at all. I want you to kiss my ring and swear by the Blessed Virgin that you'll never so much as mention the British in public again."
"But Your Holiness, I - I - " the priest stammered.
"No buts," said the Pope. "Swear it here and now or there'll be trouble!"
"Aye, Holy Father," sighed the father. "All right. I swear it."
The very next Sunday just happened to be Easter, and the priest was back at his pulpit in Ireland, giving his annual Easter sermon.
He got to the part of the Easter story where Jesus said, "And one of you shall betray Me."
The priest continues: "Saint Andrew jumps up and says, 'Is it I Lord?' and the Lord says, 'Nay, Andy darlin', it's not you. Sit down now and dunna worry. Eat your supper.'
Then Saint John the Divine gets up with tears in his eyes and cries, 'Is it I Lord?' And the Lord says, 'Nay, Johnny me boy, it's not you. Sit down now and dunna fret yourself. Eat your supper.'
"Then that dirty dog Judas Iscariot slowww-ly rises to his feet. And he looks the Lord right in the eye and says, 'Blimey, Mate. Ya think it's me?"
"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
11/17/2013 5:56:15 PM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN - 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: markomalley
What I find very interesting is that, among the Roman occupying Forces, the officials spoke with lovely, refined British Accents while the ordinary foot soldiers had Cockney Accents!
(Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
This verbal class distinction by now should be antique.
If you spoke as they do sir, instead of the way you do,
Why you might be occupying Judea too!”
To: ConorMacNessa
He would have been a Roman Citizen.
England didn’t exist until 408AD.
Before the Roman invasion it was Celtic.
He must have been from Kent. :)
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posted on
11/17/2013 5:57:34 PM PST
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day. This is not the post you are looking for ....move along now....)
To: RichInOC
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.
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posted on
11/17/2013 5:57:38 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: markomalley
Thank you for the warning, there have been too many times when it was hard to tell the difference.
I have always been amazed at how many agave plants and prickly pear cactuses grew in the middle east during Jesus’ time!
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posted on
11/17/2013 5:58:07 PM PST
by
Ellendra
("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
To: EEGator
Snort! Now I’m going to YouTube to watch some clips. I need a laugh. My little ones almost drove this mama over the edge today.
50
posted on
11/17/2013 5:59:33 PM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: SkyDancer
Not sure how true this is, but I heard a talk from a language historian who said that what is thought of as “the British accent” didn’t develop until the 1700’s, and that rejecting the accent was one way the colonies were pushing back against England’s control.
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posted on
11/17/2013 6:02:40 PM PST
by
Ellendra
("Laws were most numerous when the Commonwealth was most corrupt." -Tacitus)
To: left that other site
52
posted on
11/17/2013 6:12:07 PM PST
by
ottbmare
(the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
To: markomalley
So does he say “I could care less” or “I couldn’t care less”?
Let’s settle this thing once and for all.
To: markomalley
If Jesus were to return, what kind of car would he drive?
54
posted on
11/17/2013 6:18:28 PM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: untwist
The most moving scene for me in the 1977 film was Jesus telling the centurion, “Go your way; your servant lives.”
The centurion’s other servants come to tell him the miraculous news and have to drag him away while he gazes upon Jesus with rapt awe & gratitude. Ernest Borgnine was the centurion.
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posted on
11/17/2013 6:20:57 PM PST
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: markomalley
I wonder if in any wide screen shot of any out door scene , you could see ancient TV antennae?
56
posted on
11/17/2013 6:28:56 PM PST
by
Exit148
To: untwist
Olivia Hussey was Mary, and amazingly beautiful. Not many years ago, she also play Mother Theresa, who was not physically beautiful, with a lot of make-up, very convincingly.
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posted on
11/17/2013 6:32:38 PM PST
by
RobbyS
(quotes)
To: left that other site
My understanding is that in the 18th Century American and English-English were pretty much the same, bearing in mind that a Bostonian and a Virginian could have differed just as a Yorkshireman would from a Londoner. There was no one way of speaking the language.
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posted on
11/17/2013 6:39:17 PM PST
by
RobbyS
(quotes)
To: HiTech RedNeck
I think Jesus was a redneck carpenter.
That falls in line with when the greenies were asking “Well, what kind of car would Jesus drive”.
Since He was a carpenter, the kind who started with rough wood, these days He would have driven something like a well worn F450, with dents and scratches from handling raw timber, and fitted with a cargo trailer.
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posted on
11/17/2013 7:00:32 PM PST
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: ottbmare
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