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Post by Phalon on Sept 21, 2012 18:39:14 GMT -6
I was. No, no, no...there should be a question mark there: I was? A thread about myths. There is one...it's been dragged around from board to bored. One of my very favorites, I just spent the better part of an hour rereading for nostalgia's sake. We did Zephyr (though not quite like Chloris did), but never covered Acacallis (she most likely did not need covers, being warm enough already, enveloped in the fur of her wolfie companions). whooshorg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=8Ah, good times and bad puns.
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Post by Mini Mia on Sept 21, 2012 18:42:33 GMT -6
I bumped it, and some others as well.
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Post by stepper on Sept 21, 2012 18:59:05 GMT -6
Hello ladies - I noticed FBM was unboring herself bumping threads but didn't notice you Phalon and I do apologize for that.
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Post by scamp on Sept 22, 2012 16:00:34 GMT -6
So for C .... Cyrene, of course.
Edicts of Cyrene
This long Greek inscription from Cyrene, first published in 1927, constitutes the most important epigraphical find for the reign of Augustus since the famous Res Gestae. It contains four imperial edicts of 7/6 B.C. and a fifth, appending a decree of the Senate, of 4 B.C. The first edict revises the judiciary system of the province, patterned after the criminal courts of Rome, by providing for mixed juries of Greeks and Romans in capital cases. The second concerns a case which apparently established the precedent for the prosecution (attested under subsequent emperors) of affronts to imperial statues under the law of maiestas (lese majesty). The third edict, which limits the privileges of newly created Roman citizens, is an important document on the subjects of multiple citizenship and compulsory public services in the provinces. The fourth edict, dealing with the jury system in Cyrene, supplements the first. The decree of the Senate appended to the fifth edict established a new, accelerated procedure by judicial commissions of Roman senators in extortion cases limited to a claim for recovery and involving no concomitant capital charges against the accused public official. Altogether these edicts shed invaluable light on the fusion of Hellenistic and Roman law in the eastern provinces; since Crete-Cyrene was a senatorial province, they also constitute important evidences of Augustus' maius imperium.
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Post by stepper on Sept 22, 2012 18:03:20 GMT -6
LOL! I almost want to say D is for ducky after reading all that.
Double roles - Rene, Lucy, and Ted Raimi all portrayed more than one character in at least one ep.
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Post by scamp on Sept 24, 2012 4:06:02 GMT -6
Stepper, this one is for you. Edos in Been There, Done That EDOS was an operating system based upon IBM's original DOS. The name stood for extended (or enhanced) disk operating system. IIRC, it came out in the early 1970s.
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Post by stepper on Sept 24, 2012 15:45:15 GMT -6
Ya know, somedays I miss DOS. On the other hand, there's a lot to be said for GUI. I don't miss punch cards at all.
Falafel
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Post by vickiej on Sept 24, 2012 16:10:36 GMT -6
grizzled
apearance of a lot of older male visitors
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Post by stepper on Sept 24, 2012 17:18:46 GMT -6
Scamp might want to add commentary to this because I'm only going to mention the name.
Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts - Helen of Troy
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Post by vickiej on Sept 26, 2012 13:47:36 GMT -6
Idiots
pick whoever you like from the show.Derived from the Greek word "idios", meaning one who did not care about taking part in public life
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Post by stepper on Sept 26, 2012 16:38:22 GMT -6
jurisprudence - old time justice as seen in The Execution
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Post by vickiej on Sept 27, 2012 12:10:13 GMT -6
Kali
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Post by stepper on Sept 27, 2012 16:17:34 GMT -6
lascivious - Thinking of Ares in The Reckoning
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Post by scamp on Sept 28, 2012 9:24:45 GMT -6
Scamp might want to add commentary to this because I'm only going to mention the name. Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts - Helen of Troy Dutifully added commentary.... Helen of Troy (Ἑλένη, Helénē), also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda (or Nemesis), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. See the Homeric Epics. The etymology (source) of Helen's name has long been a problem for scholars. Curtius related Helen (Ἑλένη) to the moon (Selene, Σελήνη). Boisacq considered Ἑλένη to derive from the noun ἑλένη meaning "torch." It has also been suggested that the λ of Ἑλένη arose from an original ν, and thus the name is connected with the root of Venus. Current thinking is that the name has an Indo-European etymology, it is possibly a suffixed form of a root *wel- "to turn, roll," or of *sel- "to flow, run." The latter possibility would allow comparison to the Vedic woman Saranyu, a character who is abducted in the Rigveda. This parallel is suggestive of a Proto-Indo-European abduction myth. Saranyu means "swift" and is derived from the adjective saraṇa ("running", "swift"), the feminine of which is saraṇā which is a sound cognate with Ἑλένα, the form of Helen that has no initial digamma. The possible connection of Helen's name to ἑλένη ("torch"), as noted above, may also support the relationship of her name to Vedic svaranā ("the shining one"). This makes sense to me as myths tend to be universal. Fortran. Now there's a dead language.
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Post by scamp on Sept 28, 2012 9:27:53 GMT -6
Mephistopheles, in The Haunting of Amphipolis.
Mephistopheles is a demon featured in German folklore. He originally appeared in literature as the demon in the Faust legend, and he has since appeared in other works as a common version of the Devil.
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Post by stepper on Sept 28, 2012 17:49:32 GMT -6
DISCLAIMER: No ribbons were harmed during the production of this motion picture. However, several experienced severe motion sickness. Here She Comes...Miss Amphipolis
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Post by scamp on Oct 4, 2012 14:01:14 GMT -6
DISCLAIMER: No ribbons were harmed during the production of this motion picture. However, several experienced severe motion sickness. Here She Comes...Miss AmphipolisROTFLMAO!! Good one! Orestes in The Furies Orestes (Ὀρέστης) is a play by Euripides that follows the life of Orestes after he murdered his mother. A charming bloke, eh?
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Post by stepper on Oct 6, 2012 18:49:07 GMT -6
Perdicas - Return of Callisto
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Post by Scrappy Amazon on Oct 10, 2012 7:31:39 GMT -6
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Post by scamp on Oct 10, 2012 19:59:32 GMT -6
Perdicas - Return of Callisto Perdiccas (Περδίκκας) was a general under Alexander the Great, who, upon Alexander’s death became regent over all of Alexander’s empire. Only classicists and fools like me use the double “c.” In real life, a single “c” is more appropriate, given how the name is pronounced but in Greek, it takes a double “c” to indicate the sound of the c as in the word cuss. You know, for decades I wondered why I majored in both lit and the classics. Now I know -- it was just to add to my enjoyment of XWP. LOL… The Quill is Mightier... This episode had one of my favorite lines: “I think she threw that for the halibut of it.” Okay, I know that's weird but so am I.
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Post by stepper on Oct 10, 2012 21:08:13 GMT -6
I liked the Quill show too. And I see Scrappy found a target for her pumpkin. If I duck - does that mean it hits someone else?? Recumbent - one of the truly funny scenes in Old Ares Had A Farm we find the ladies, and Ares, all politely ensconced – a trois – recumbent and abed. The ladies sleep well enough but poor Ares – not so much.
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Post by scamp on Oct 10, 2012 22:23:43 GMT -6
Ultimatums, often silly
Both X and G made several like these from Chariots of War:
Xena: JUMP! Gabrielle: If I die I’m never talking to you again!
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Post by stepper on Oct 11, 2012 15:38:14 GMT -6
Voices - sometimes I just like listening to their voices - especially on youtube where they are chit chatting about the shows and what went on. I like listening to the genuine banter.
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Post by scamp on Oct 18, 2012 5:42:40 GMT -6
Waltraute in The Ring
Brünnhilde’s sister is the Valkyrie Waltraute (cf Götterdämmerung, Wagner’s final opera of The Ring cycle)
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Post by stepper on Oct 18, 2012 20:34:30 GMT -6
Xena of course...
and
the Palomino most often ridden by Xena is known, in western slang, as Yellow Horse or Texas Yellow Horse
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Post by scamp on Oct 24, 2012 1:06:05 GMT -6
Zagreas in A Day In the Life, poor guy got stomped by a giant and had to deal with both XWP but Minya as well.
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Post by stepper on Oct 24, 2012 17:03:24 GMT -6
Angst ~ lots of that in X:WP
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Post by Siren on Oct 29, 2012 18:53:57 GMT -6
B is for bride. Xena was a lovely one in "Return of the Valkyrie".
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Post by stepper on Oct 30, 2012 17:38:43 GMT -6
Celesta's Candle - Death in Chains
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Post by Siren on Oct 30, 2012 20:37:11 GMT -6
D is for dunes - our gals looked pretty in their desert garb in "Legacy"
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