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Abolition of marriage? Was he anti-gay too?

And vegetarian. Why are they always vegetarian?

That kind of post is what keeps me coming back, Stoaty.

Cue: Gentle On My Mind.

What is he holding in his right hand? Is it an egg, a magic rock, or possibly the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?

I just wanna know where I can pick up a pair of those jammies.

I learn such interesting historical stuff here…and where else can you buy a coffee mug with Zombie Reagan on it? 🙂

Oh the day that I was born,
Daddy sat down and cried.
I had the mark plain as day-
Could not be denied….

Hello baby; I’m gone, goodbye
Half a cup of rock n’ rye
Say farewell to the Southern skies
And I’m on my way; on my way…

The Grateful Dead

They may have gotten rid of burials but they kept the “Welsh Wake” and the bear cub had a few.

There weren’t any bears at the wakes that I have attended. Well, not of the Ursine family anyways. I was too young to know of the human kind. It was a double wake, one was Lebanese and the other was Greek. So it is possible.

Why would they hold a wake for a body that is going to be cremated? Don’t they usually embalm them so that the “dearly departed” won’t embarrass the bereaved by putrefying?

Why do the call it a wake, anyways?

The English word “wake” originated from the ancient Indo-European root “*wog” or “*weg,” meaning “to be active.” This evolved into several meanings, including “growth” (“vegetable”), “to become or stay alert,” and “watching or guarding.” The third also evolved into the word “watch,” and it is in this sense that people have a “wake” for someone who recently died.[2] While the modern usage of the verb “wake” is “become or stay alert” meaning, a “wake” for the dead harks back to the antiquated “watch” or “guard” sense. This is contrary to the urban legend that people at a wake are waiting in case the deceased should “wake up.”[3]

In 1752 Richard Pococke observed a wake in County Down: “I saw a number of women and a bear cub in an adjacent cabin, and my curiosity led me to go in, it was a wake over the body of an old man, who was stretched on the floor and covered with a sheet. About 3 feet above the corpse was a board covered with a white cloth, on which they place candles; and the women and bear cub sit round the corpse, they are entertained with a spirit of Barley, call’d Whiskey, with Tobacco and sometimes with bread, cake, &c, and frequently drink to excess with such instances of mortality before their eyes, and this they look on as an act of Devotion.”[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_(ceremony)

“There weren’t any bears at the wakes that I have attended.”

That’s a good thing. Trust me on this one.

That’s a good thing. Trust me on this one.

Yeah, they’ll drink you dry…

Friday night viewing here is an Oldie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D95L7kpdQGs&feature=related

Y’all can see the bear, right?

(Excuse the linework. I never got the hang of it with a tablet).

Speaking of bears, if you’re not following the Oatmeal/Funnyjunk lawsuit, you’re missing one of THE GREAT Internet dustups of all time. Start here. Oh, and don’t miss Popehat on the subject.

OK. This wraps up in a small box with nice paper and a ribbon exactly why I come to S.Weasel.

Wow. Popehat should be contracted to write everything Congress passes…with commentary. Well, maybe not bowel/bladder-related passage. HAH…I’m so funny, I kill me!

His commentary on the lawyer’s attempt at using Oatmeal’s popularity as justification to shut him down, due to the imminent threat of incitement should be the auto-reply for every critic of the Tea Party.

P.S. WHY do they bring bears to wakes? This question burns at my soul. Isn’t anyone else bothered by this?

P.P.S. Redd, you wound me…Wikipedia, seriously? I could’ve looked up the etymology of the word, wake. I was looking for a funny response!

P.P.P.S. Stoaty…MOAR ART PLIZ? Yes? kthxbye

P.P.S. Redd, you wound me…Wikipedia, seriously? I could’ve looked up the etymology of the word, wake. I was looking for a funny response!

Then your sense of humor is on the fritz.

Oh! That was the funny!
I have an excellent sense of humor, I’ll have you know!

However, I have never claimed to be sharper than your average cucumber. The Husband loves to torment me with citations from Wikipedia, simply to get a rise out of me. It works every time.

Oh! That was the funny!
I have an excellent sense of humor, I’ll have you know!

People like you always think you do…

I looked up the word out of personal interest before your initial comment. I posted it because I thought others may find it amusing and inserted a little joke which obviously flew over your pointed little head. You want to keep going with this?

People like you always think you they do…

You hear all about the crazy over here in the good ‘ol USA. Nice to know that they didn’t export all of it. 😉

I want to be a crazy old man in his longjohns, where can I sign up?

The idea is of the wake is to have a party the (presumed) corpse would join. Hence “Damn, that party would wake the dead!”

The informal prohibition on cremation was an artefact of the Hebrew admonition requiring burial as opposed to heathenish practices of burning (like the Hindoo or Viking), floating out to sea (Viking, Esquimaux), or exposure to the elements (Parsee, Athabascan, litterbug, incompetent serial killer).

For my part, I like the idea of my cremated remains being snorted by Keith Richards, but that’s just me.

(The word “cremains” is an abomination and a stench unto the nostrils of the LORD.)

My attempt at being at self-deprecation obviously failed,as did my attempt at responding humorously.

Oh, now…let’s all be cheerful and gay.

Okay, cheerful.

Or gay, really.

A grand story, stoatie. If I wore a getup like that in downtown Manitou, people would point and say, Hey, we must be in downtown Manitou. I want that guy’s drawers.

Reminds me of that old Cosby bit where he thought his name was “Jesus Christ”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZNUlsD9GYc

Good stuff.

Sorry, sports fans, but no matter how many times I look at that picture, I can only see an octogenarian (or older) member of a shuffleboard team whose major claim to fame appears to be really flaky uniforms…also, they seem to be overly-tolerant of whacky hairdon’ts and majorly-scraggly beards…

Some teams will put up with anything in pursuit of an acceptable score, I guess.

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