My favorite was "The journal welcomes proposals and completed essays on any aspect of Thunderbirds." okeedokee! Who sits around writing essays on a puppet show? Apparently these people! :)
I believe they prefer to be called bronto-ornithologists. (Not to be confused with Brontë-ornithologists, who study this (http://www.umd.umich.edu/casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/BEWICKSB.htm) sort of thing.)
While I have your attention, it has been pointed out to me that, given the forelocks, this Chick-lifted icon I am using could be considered offensive. I had assumed any overtones of probatophilia (*) were delightfully accidental, but possibly the Chick folks are saying something unkind about God's Pre-New-Testament Chosen People, in which case the amusement value plummets. Does this refer to a specific biblical story?
---- (*) I think that should be a word if it isn't. I guess what I'm saying here is that I assumed that our cartoon hero here was being philoprobatous (which I mean to define as "kindly to livestock"), but now I worry that he is meant to be every inch the probatophiliac he appears to be. Or, again, I don't want to pass on a slander if it was *meant* to be slanderous.
You know, maybe someone in the academic police is going to kick down my door and make me give my Ph.D. back, but I'm stumped by this picture. My best guess is that this painting comes from the part of the movie where they talk about how the Israelites thought they had to make all kinds of animal sacrifices in order to please God (hence the burn-o-rama going on in the background). Nobody's gonna have to burn the widdle lambies any more, says the New Testament, and thus this young probatophile will not have to be sad ever again.
(Remember what my Russian friend said: physical demonstrativeness is for livestock.)
Isn't their some story (either form the NT or one of those parts of the Hebrew Bible that Christians obsess over) about a boy having to sacrifice his favorite lamb? Look how sad the (human) kid looks.
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Date: 2004-02-23 08:59 am (UTC)Who sits around writing essays on a puppet show? Apparently these people!
:)
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Date: 2004-02-23 09:27 am (UTC)Only in, er, .ws!
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Date: 2004-02-23 12:21 pm (UTC)Refereed by whom, exactly? Emeritus Professors of Thunderbirds Studies?
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Date: 2004-02-23 12:50 pm (UTC)While I have your attention, it has been pointed out to me that, given the forelocks, this Chick-lifted icon I am using could be considered offensive. I had assumed any overtones of probatophilia (*) were delightfully accidental, but possibly the Chick folks are saying something unkind about God's Pre-New-Testament Chosen People, in which case the amusement value plummets. Does this refer to a specific biblical story?
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(*) I think that should be a word if it isn't. I guess what I'm saying here is that I assumed that our cartoon hero here was being philoprobatous (which I mean to define as "kindly to livestock"), but now I worry that he is meant to be every inch the probatophiliac he appears to be. Or, again, I don't want to pass on a slander if it was *meant* to be slanderous.
You understand, of course.
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Date: 2004-02-23 10:33 pm (UTC)You know, maybe someone in the academic police is going to kick down my door and make me give my Ph.D. back, but I'm stumped by this picture. My best guess is that this painting comes from the part of the movie where they talk about how the Israelites thought they had to make all kinds of animal sacrifices in order to please God (hence the burn-o-rama going on in the background). Nobody's gonna have to burn the widdle lambies any more, says the New Testament, and thus this young probatophile will not have to be sad ever again.
(Remember what my Russian friend said: physical demonstrativeness is for livestock.)
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Date: 2004-02-24 12:36 pm (UTC)