tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8953101039818455536..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: LinguisticsFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-31450811203956952002009-04-03T16:08:00.000+01:002009-04-03T16:08:00.000+01:00The etymology of "Amazon" provides an interesting ...The etymology of "Amazon" provides an interesting link to S Agatha, who perhaps should be the patron saint of Amazons...CPKShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14450108415656796528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88605679300926086162009-04-02T14:23:00.000+01:002009-04-02T14:23:00.000+01:00I am sure the Pastor in Valle Adurni is right: it'...I am sure the Pastor in Valle Adurni is right: it's not a topic I've visited for nearly 50 years. We must leave it to the priestly caste he mentions to kill the vampires. <BR/><BR/>As for the great city of Ebbsfleet, alas I am bishop neither of that nor of its plucky football team, nor yet of its international train station. Mine is the little village on the isle of Thanet, outside which a Bishop of Ebbsfleethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02366941004713902728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85924369779953937972009-04-01T15:28:00.000+01:002009-04-01T15:28:00.000+01:00I defer to the apostolic authority of the hierarch...I defer to the apostolic authority of the hierarch of the great city of Ebbsfleet, but were not the warriors he refers to Amazons, not Lesbians? <BR/>Lesbyters, lesbuterai, surely were the sacred female priestly caste of Lesbos.Pastor in Montehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949810648656544072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71476180731935308762009-03-31T17:51:00.000+01:002009-03-31T17:51:00.000+01:00I am not ready for this Father, I am still working...I am not ready for this Father, I am still working on a poster seen last year near UCL, it read, 'Mansfield Park the queer girls reading'. Punctuation as here given, work that one out!Father Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02208755348913082159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25141208670901087442009-03-30T17:26:00.000+01:002009-03-30T17:26:00.000+01:00No doubt about it - it's ambiguous. Don't feel bad...No doubt about it - it's ambiguous. <BR/><BR/>Don't feel bad, Father - English is a tricky language, until you get the hang of it. ;-)The Religious PĂcarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03620636294081499041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-4944404087796350892009-03-30T16:56:00.000+01:002009-03-30T16:56:00.000+01:00My husband and I were having much the same convers...My husband and I were having much the same conversation the other night when we saw a trailer for the aforesaid film.....<BR/><BR/>I don't think we will be wasting my husband's hard-earned wages on going to see it anyway - even if the Vampire Killers do hail from the isle of Lesbos. :-)Elizabeth @ The Garden Windowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00274788007550318693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-63431390617778968012009-03-30T15:37:00.000+01:002009-03-30T15:37:00.000+01:00Surely, Father, with your classical education, you...Surely, Father, with your classical education, you know that they might be killers or vampires from the Isle of Lesbos. Lesbos being more famous for its unusual warriors than for its vampires, the plain sense (as one might say when reading the Articles of Religion) is that we are indeed talking of warriors from a certain island who kill vampires. But I shan't be going along 'ad picturas' to Bishop of Ebbsfleethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02366941004713902728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72779697710232852922009-03-30T14:38:00.000+01:002009-03-30T14:38:00.000+01:00Rev'd up to the rescue:Father, LESBIAN VAMPIRE KIL...Rev'd up to the rescue:<BR/><BR/>Father, LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS is like so obviously a docu-drama musical production (in the vein of "High School Musical 3: Senior Year") about the transition of Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton as US Sec State. Now, doesn't this obviously (again) demonstrates the superior "Classics" training we receive here in the States?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com