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To: Quix; hosepipe
“I YAM WHAT I YAM!”

That's the version in the Dell fragment in the Vatican Library.

Alternate translations were proposed but "I sweet-potatoe what I sweet-potatoe" (that was the Quayle variant MS) was determined to make no sense. While some argued that it was a little late in the day to start worrying about making sense, the majority of scholars determined that at least the appearance of comprehensibility should be preserved, so that reading was declared spurious by acclamation. However a small but obese cult still insists on that translation. They also maintain that that stuff in Popeye's pipe ain't exactly Kentucky Burley if you catch my drift. To the ritual meal of hamburgers and spinach, this sect adds sweet-potato fries.

Fat and Happy, the foundation of this sect is lost in the mists of history and legend, but the first High Priest, J. Wellington Wimpy, was noted for a surprisingly sophisticated doctrine of Proleptic Eschatology, neatly summed up in the liturgical formula, "I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. A number of Congressional Democrats are rumored to be secret adherents of the sect, to which Teddy the Hutt bears the same relationship that the Twelfth Imam bears to some sects of Islam.

A serious heresy arose from this sect, the cult which teaches that Bluto and Popeye are actual different avatars of the same Divine principle, Olive Oyl, whose love "moves the sun and other stars."

Oh! I think it's time for my medication.

15,204 posted on 05/25/2007 9:42:26 AM PDT by Mad Dawg
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To: Mad Dawg
A serious heresy arose from this sect, the cult which teaches that Bluto and Popeye are actual different avatars of the same Divine principle, Olive Oyl, whose love "moves the sun and other stars."

LOL! Funny. Here is something written 1800 years ago by St. Irenaeus that I found equally hilarious.

There is a certain Proarche, royal, surpassing all thought, a power existing before every other substance, and extended into space in every direction. But along with it there exists a power which I term a Gourd; and along with this Gourd there exists a power which again I term Utter-Emptiness. This Gourd and Emptiness, since they are one, produced (and yet did not simply produce, so as to be apart from themselves) a fruit, everywhere visible, eatable, and delicious, which fruit-language calls a Cucumber. Along with this Cucumber exists a power of the same essence, which again I call a Melon. These powers, the Gourd, Utter-Emptiness, the Cucumber, and the Melon, brought forth the remaining multitude of the delirious melons of Valentinus. (LOL!!!) For if it is fitting that that language which is used respecting the universe be transformed to the primary Tetrad, and if any one may assign names at his pleasure, who shall prevent us from adopting these names, as being much more credible [than the others], as well as in general use, and understood by all?

(St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book 1, Chapter 11)

Seems that sarcasm was part of his weaponry vs. the Gnostics.

Regards

15,210 posted on 05/25/2007 10:20:56 AM PDT by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)
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To: Mad Dawg

LOL.

So, you assert that the origin of Dell computers arose from that fragment. Makes sense . . . if there is sense to be made.

LOL.

LUB


15,229 posted on 05/25/2007 12:51:19 PM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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