Cheap thrills
Do you know what's inspiring? Holding in your hands an Old Testament in Hebrew. There are a couple in the central library if anyone wants to experience the buzz. There's just something about it. Well I find it so, anyway. Can't wait to learn to read it one day. It sort of seems more alive or something, having it there in front of you in the words (or something close) that the real live writers said and heard in their hearts at some actual point in time. I know it's not the way it really looked to them etc, nicely typed up, resplendent with vowels, and all grouped together in a tidy leather binding. But go on, indulge me by allowing me to be sentimental about this. :) That was not expressed as eloquently as befits the way I felt this afternoon, but I'll leave it be.
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And now for something completely different: silly games with Katherine (the part of the show where Katherine comes out and...tries to incite others to playing silly games).
24 Things To Do In An Elavator
A bit cheap, I know, to use a circulating email on my blog, but I really like this one. My favourites are 22 and 23. Respect to anyone that can (truthfully) report having done one of these. There are, after all, so many elevators sitting around at uni just waiting to be turned into instruments of merrymaking. [hehe, Jess, any fond memories recalled by that word?]
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1.When there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.
2.Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
3.Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.
4.Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day been?"
5.Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, "that's mine!"
6.Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator
7.Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.
8.Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they'd like to play.
9.Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on,
ask them if they hear something ticking.
10.Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.
11.Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.
12.When the doors close, announce to the others, "It's okay. Don't panic, they open up again."
13.Swat at flies that don't exist.
14.Call out, "group hug!", then enforce it.
15.Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"
16.Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?"
17.Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
18.Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.
19.Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.
20.Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.
21.Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
22.Stare, grinning at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I have new socks on."
23.Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers, "This is my personal space!"
24.Before the elevator door opens shout "DING" and then laugh and say "beat you again Mr Elevator."
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Happy days,
kt
-
And now for something completely different: silly games with Katherine (the part of the show where Katherine comes out and...tries to incite others to playing silly games).
24 Things To Do In An Elavator
A bit cheap, I know, to use a circulating email on my blog, but I really like this one. My favourites are 22 and 23. Respect to anyone that can (truthfully) report having done one of these. There are, after all, so many elevators sitting around at uni just waiting to be turned into instruments of merrymaking. [hehe, Jess, any fond memories recalled by that word?]
***
1.When there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder and then pretend it wasn't you.
2.Push the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more.
3.Ask if you can push the button for other people, but push the wrong ones.
4.Hold the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say, "Hi Greg. How's your day been?"
5.Drop a pen and wait until someone reaches to help pick it up, then scream, "that's mine!"
6.Bring a camera and take pictures of everyone in the elevator
7.Move your desk in to the elevator and whenever someone gets on, ask if they have an appointment.
8.Lay down a Twister mat and ask people if they'd like to play.
9.Leave a box in the corner, and when someone gets on,
ask them if they hear something ticking.
10.Pretend you are a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the passengers.
11.Stand really close to someone, sniffing them occasionally.
12.When the doors close, announce to the others, "It's okay. Don't panic, they open up again."
13.Swat at flies that don't exist.
14.Call out, "group hug!", then enforce it.
15.Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering, "Shut up, all of you, just shut up!"
16.Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside, ask, "Got enough air in there?"
17.Stand silently and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
18.Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce in horror, "You're one of THEM!" and back away slowly.
19.Wear a puppet on your hand and use it to talk to the other passengers.
20.Listen to the elevator walls with your stethoscope.
21.Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
22.Stare, grinning at another passenger for a while, and then announce, "I have new socks on."
23.Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers, "This is my personal space!"
24.Before the elevator door opens shout "DING" and then laugh and say "beat you again Mr Elevator."
***
Happy days,
kt
posted by Kat | 9/10/2004 07:09:00 pm
5 Comments:
Some good ones there :-).
Were you on the merrymaking committee as well? Far out.
No I was not on the merrymaking committee, just friends with those that were, and, like the rest of the school, felt a sense of pride in its accomplishments...well some of them...the panties up the flagpole is always a winner, though Fred the Fountain God had me a little disturbed (however it was pretty funny when they actually made a profit of $2 or so from a couple of juniors who apparently thought it was a real wishing well). Oh, and *not* that I have any clues as to the secret identity of the committee members, in case anyone's considering trying to extract that information from me by means of torture...
Hmm... I would be worried if someone did that to me in a lift.
Btw if I wanted to read the OT, I would learn Classical Greek not Hebrew.
That might seem random to you, but there is a good, if complex explanation: It seems now to be generally accepted that the Greek LXX translation more accurately represents the original text than the somewhat corrupted Masoretic text(MT) family which is effectively what our Hebrew copies are. Plus the NT authors generally used the LXX rather than the MT: When the NT quotes a verse from the OT which differs in the LXX and MT, about 94% of the time the LXX is quoted rather than the MT. The Hebrew scrolls found at Qumram generally agreed with the LXX over the MT too. But a lot of people have got it firmly ingrained in their head that since Hebrew was the original language of the OT, the Hebrew copies of it must be most accurate... so virtually all modern translations use the MT as a basis for their translation of the OT so on numerous occaisions NT writers seem to quote the OT "wrongly" because they are quoting from the LXX and the Bible translators have given you the MT in the OT.
The other two benefits to learning Greek over Hebrew are 1. that you can read the NT too, and 2. that you can spot terms that the NT authors have borrowed from the OT more easily.
Yeah I thought you'd probably say that. I did a bit of Greek at Uni last year and hope to do them both somewhere along the way. I realize it's not quite 'the real thing', but as I said, I just like looking at the pages and recalling that it's about real people.
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