Inclement weather further delays SS United States departure to Wednesday

Philly Voice ^ | February 18, 2025 | Michaela Althouse

[Ezekiel]

High winds have again delayed the departure of the SS United States from South Philadelphia, pushing back its exit until Wednesday afternoon.

The historic ocean liner is scheduled to leave at low tide 12:51 p.m., although tugboats will begin moving it into the Delaware River channel two or three hours before that. The ship, which is heading on a journey to be sunk and turned into an artificial reef off the coast of Florida, was set to leave Monday, but high winds pushed its departure back to Tuesday before conditions forced the latest postponement.

[Ezekiel]

Yesterday's thread:

Wind delays SS United States' departure from Philly until Tuesday

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4298341/posts

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Judging from the picture, a few weekends of elbow grease will fix it up like new...

[Ezekiel]

Meanwhile, today's [punny/pinny] email "Yiddish Word of the Week" arrived an hour ago:

What Does "Shpilkes" Mean?

By Chabad.org Staff

Shpilkes is Yiddish for “pins.” Like “sitting on pins and needles” in English, being “oif shpilkes” implies being highly agitated while waiting for something to happen.

The proper Yiddish pronunciation is SHPIL-kess (or SHPIL-kiss), but many English speakers say SHPIL-keys.

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What Does "Shpilkes" Mean?

[Red Badger]

Thorn.....................

[Ezekiel]

Ha, I was just getting ready to paste the etym:

Etymology
Borrowed from Yiddish שפּילקעס (shpilkes, “needles”), ultimately from a Slavic term such as Polish szpilka, which comes from Italian spilla, from Late Latin spīnula (“little thorn”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shpilkes

It also flips numerically back to reference about the “third day”:

שפילקעס (650)

בראשית 1:13
*ויהי ערב ויהי בקר יום *שלישי

Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the *third* day.

[Ezekiel]

Thorn or þorn (Þ, þ) is a letter in the Old English and other languages. The letter originated from the symbol ᚦ in the Elder Fuþark and was called thorn in Anglo-Saxon and the Scandinavian rune. Thorn looks like the archaic Greek letter sho (ϸ), although the two are not related. Icelandic is the only surviving language which uses the letter þ.

Thorn is pronounced like the sound of th, as in the English word thick. In some cases, it makes a sound similar to th as in the English word the. Modern Icelandic usually represents this sound with the letter eth instead.

The lowercase thorn character is unusual in that it has both an ascender (the tall part at the top of the character) and a descender (the part of the character below the line it is written on).

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

[Red Badger]

It looks like a trump-et standing on its bell...............

[Ezekiel]

“thorn”

Here’s an example of seeing without the Establishment rules for what is “supposed to be” seen, or unseen.

These things roll together in the timing, which is why I simply posted the “Yiddish Word of the Week” here along with the “anxiety” of the United States being launched into the Guf..

But then I’d remembered the letter, which in its own way, is also a little thorn.

Then as I like to check/compare names and terms in Hebrew and Greek:

This is where it got interesting. I really get to go places with the freestyle “ride like the wind” study methodology.

“Thorn” is transliterated:

“ת’ורן”

That lil apostrophe-like character is a geresh, used in this case to denote a Hebrew letter that is being used for a foreign sound. An apostrophe on the keyboard is used for it.

‘ת is a “th” sound versus a “t”.

It looks similar to the letter yud (י).

*If* it were a yud, the “word” would = 666:

תיורן

Now, it’s not a word, but whatever permutation is a word or phrase would = 666. I haven’t even thought on that yet because I was immediately distracted by the very concept of “the number of the beast”:

Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the BEAST [G2342]: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

G2342
θηρίον thēríon, thay-ree’-on; diminutive from the same as G2339; a dangerous animal:—(venomous, wild) beast.

So back to the “if it were a permutation..”:

ת’ריון

“therion” = 666

Haha — it’s always the simple meaning in the end. Punny!

And getting punnier:

The burning bush was/is some kind of thorn bush (cf. “Sinai”).

sneh —

סְנֶה m.n. (pl. סְנָאִים, also סְנָיִים) thorn, bush (it is prob. identical with the Rubus discolor). [Related to Aram.-Syr. סַנְיָא (= thornbush), Arab. sanan, Akka. sinū (= blackberry bush).] Derivative: סְנָאִי.

The middle of a sneh is the letter nun, which = 50, and..

Exodus 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the *midst* of a bUSh [סנה]: and he looked, and, behold, the bUSh burned with fire, and the bUSh was not consumed.

Odd detail is that the Hebrew text is actually THE bush [הַסְּנֶה], but the translation says “a” bush.

In a way they are both right, because in the middle of “the bush” is a miracle (nes, נס) in reverse.

I’ll go with the LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN because that’s the little thorn —

þ

unicode/hex is FE, dec. 254.

Hmmm, I only have one entry at 254:

עוֹד יוֹסֵף חַי od Yosef chai, as in:

Genesis 45:26 And told him, saying, *Joseph is yet alive*, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob’s heart fainted, for he believed them not.

Crazy, there’s that river of Egypt (DeNile) again. 🤣 🤷‍♂️

[Red Badger]

So, Charlize Theron is The Beast?.................

[Ezekiel]

Heh. Interpretations belong to God.

It’s really hard to keep up with just the data! I’d thought “254” seemed familiar, like I’d recently come up on it, being 127 x 2.

Ah, it was 2 days ago, in a study concerning Medieval terms for “sine”, which related to “half” [of a chord, bowstring].

It had remined me of the Sinai Peninsula, a “peninsula” being half חצי an island אי, chatzi i: חֲצִי אִי

The same location as the direction of the topic of the burning bush. The Sinai Peninsula:

חצי האי סיני (254)

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99

To have a person’s number is to be on to him, to recognize the bad character behind the facade.

Or as in “what’s in a name”, used to comedic effect.

With Greenland being in the news this past month, I’d already been reminded of Major Thorn, and the parallel plotline in general. If that movie isn’t a cult classic it should be.

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Bilko, with the help of newly assigned Private First Class Wally Holbrook, devises a means of avoiding Thorn’s attempt to transfer him to Greenland: He rigs a demonstration of the base’s malfunctioning Hover Tank, staged before a four-star general and numerous government officials. Since Thorn had deliberately tried to sabotage the tank the previous night, he confronts Bilko, Hall, and the general, loudly insulting Bilko and Hall. While ranting, he confesses to sabotaging the Hover Tank. Thorn is sent off again to Greenland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Bilko

(Wow, can you believe it, Phil Hartman’s been gone since ‘98!)