we can flood TB away. talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. what is your favourite flood? headkase
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:43:26 -0800, headkase wrote: > we can flood TB away. Have you tried "Advanced Search" with "pun" in the "without" box? > talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and > have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. > > what is your favourite flood? Jeez, that's a pretty personal question. -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 Thank you for your patience, all our customer representatives are busy posting to usenet. Please hang up and kill yourself. < Blitz the Cat
Don't fight it, mimus...Just lie down and try to relax: >On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:43:26 -0800, headkase wrote: > >> we can flood TB away. > >Have you tried "Advanced Search" with "pun" in the "without" box? I've tried it. It doesn't stop anywon. The only way (I've found) is to delete the thread. I am a hillbilly!!!111!!2!q1!!21!!! > >> talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and >> have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >> >> what is your favourite flood? > >Jeez, that's a pretty personal question. -- "Memo to God: Last two things to do: (1) Cancel Wavy. (2) Turn out the lights." --Mimus submits a rewrite for the ending of The Bible. ***************************************** * * * Wavy G * * mail me at: * * godsspeciallamb @ gmail.com * * * * * *****************************************
"headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > we can flood TB away. > > talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and > have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair maidens and lots of sword fights... > > what is your favourite flood? Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. > > headkase
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: > "headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > >> we can flood TB away. >> >> talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and >> have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. > > I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair maidens and > lots of sword fights... > >> what is your favourite flood? > > Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't even give credits. Low, very low. -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 I am a Shing. All Shing are liars. Am I, then, a Shing lying to you, in which case of course I am not a Shing, but a non-Shing, lying? Or is it a lie that all Shing lie? But I am a Shing, truly; and truly I lie. < _City of Illusions_
"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ab6dnTulvIImAPTanZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com... > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: > >> "headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >> >>> we can flood TB away. >>> >>> talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and >>> have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >> >> I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair maidens >> and >> lots of sword fights... >> >>> what is your favourite flood? >> >> Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. > > They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't even > give credits. Gilgamesh...why does that sound so familiar? > > Low, very low. > > -- > tinmimus99@hotmail.com > > smeeter 11 or maybe 12 > > mp 10 > > mhm 29x13 > > I am a Shing. All Shing are liars. Am I, then, a Shing lying to you, in > which case of course I am not a Shing, but a non-Shing, lying? Or is it a > lie that all Shing lie? But I am a Shing, truly; and truly I lie. > > < _City of Illusions_ > > >
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:47:35 -0500, Shirley wrote: > "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:ab6dnTulvIImAPTanZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com... > >> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: >> >>> "headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >>> >>>> we can flood TB away. >>>> >>>> talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and >>>> have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >>> >>> I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair maidens >>> and >>> lots of sword fights... >>> >>>> what is your favourite flood? >>> >>> Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. >> >> They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't even >> give credits. > > Gilgamesh...why does that sound so familiar? His epic was a "best-seller" written on clay for two-three thousand years? Grab a copy of the Gardner-and-Maier edition/version, which is syncretic but basically based on a Late Babylonian version. It's the bee's knees, just beautiful, and even the gaps add to its aura of antiquity . . . . My favorite character in all of ancient lit'rature is Siduri, the Barmaid of the Gods (she was the only one of 'em who would talk to Gilgamesh, although there may've been an encounter with Shamash, the Sun, during, ironically, Gilgamesh's days-long journey through darkness, which is fragmented yet). -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 The hell with the Galactic Overlords and their tastes in literature. < _The Day of the Burning_
"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GNydnbVuXPh7KvTanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@giganews.com... > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:47:35 -0500, Shirley wrote: > >> "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:ab6dnTulvIImAPTanZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com... >> >>> On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>> >>>> "headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >>>> >>>>> we can flood TB away. >>>>> >>>>> talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and >>>>> have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >>>> >>>> I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair maidens >>>> and >>>> lots of sword fights... >>>> >>>>> what is your favourite flood? >>>> >>>> Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. >>> >>> They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't even >>> give credits. >> >> Gilgamesh...why does that sound so familiar? > > His epic was a "best-seller" written on clay for two-three thousand years? > > Grab a copy of the Gardner-and-Maier edition/version, which is syncretic > but basically based on a Late Babylonian version. > > It's the bee's knees, just beautiful, and even the gaps add to its aura of > antiquity . . . . > > My favorite character in all of ancient lit'rature is Siduri, the Barmaid > of the Gods (she was the only one of 'em who would talk to Gilgamesh, > although there may've been an encounter with Shamash, the Sun, during, > ironically, Gilgamesh's days-long journey through darkness, which is > fragmented yet). Is this a book that can be found at the Library?? > > -- > tinmimus99@hotmail.com > > smeeter 11 or maybe 12 > > mp 10 > > mhm 29x13 > > The hell with the Galactic Overlords > and their tastes in literature. > > < _The Day of the Burning_ > >
Shirley wrote: > "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:GNydnbVuXPh7KvTanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@giganews.com... > >>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:47:35 -0500, Shirley wrote: >> >>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>news:ab6dnTulvIImAPTanZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com... >>> >>>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>>> >>>>>"headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >>>>> >>>>>>we can flood TB away. >>>>>> >>>>>>talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 and >>>>>>have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >>>>> >>>>>I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair maidens >>>>>and >>>>>lots of sword fights... >>>>> >>>>>>what is your favourite flood? >>>>> >>>>>Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. >>>> >>>>They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't even >>>>give credits. >>> >>>Gilgamesh...why does that sound so familiar? >> >>His epic was a "best-seller" written on clay for two-three thousand years? >> >>Grab a copy of the Gardner-and-Maier edition/version, which is syncretic >>but basically based on a Late Babylonian version. >> >>It's the bee's knees, just beautiful, and even the gaps add to its aura of >>antiquity . . . . >> >>My favorite character in all of ancient lit'rature is Siduri, the Barmaid >>of the Gods (she was the only one of 'em who would talk to Gilgamesh, >>although there may've been an encounter with Shamash, the Sun, during, >>ironically, Gilgamesh's days-long journey through darkness, which is >>fragmented yet). > > Is this a book that can be found at the Library?? > Some libraries. But it's all over the interweb too. Sometimes accompanied by discussion by people wot are studying such things. http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/ Chapter XI is the one (1) about teh flood. -- nuts
"mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message news:fke21l$rk5$1@aioe.org... > Shirley wrote: >> "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:GNydnbVuXPh7KvTanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@giganews.com... >> >>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:47:35 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>> >>>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>news:ab6dnTulvIImAPTanZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com... >>>> >>>>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>"headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>>news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >>>>>> >>>>>>>we can flood TB away. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 >>>>>>>and >>>>>>>have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >>>>>> >>>>>>I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair >>>>>>maidens >>>>>>and >>>>>>lots of sword fights... >>>>>> >>>>>>>what is your favourite flood? >>>>>> >>>>>>Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. >>>>> >>>>>They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't >>>>>even >>>>>give credits. >>>> >>>>Gilgamesh...why does that sound so familiar? >>> >>>His epic was a "best-seller" written on clay for two-three thousand >>>years? >>> >>>Grab a copy of the Gardner-and-Maier edition/version, which is syncretic >>>but basically based on a Late Babylonian version. >>> >>>It's the bee's knees, just beautiful, and even the gaps add to its aura >>>of >>>antiquity . . . . >>> >>>My favorite character in all of ancient lit'rature is Siduri, the Barmaid >>>of the Gods (she was the only one of 'em who would talk to Gilgamesh, >>>although there may've been an encounter with Shamash, the Sun, during, >>>ironically, Gilgamesh's days-long journey through darkness, which is >>>fragmented yet). >> >> Is this a book that can be found at the Library?? >> > Some libraries. But it's all over the interweb too. Sometimes > accompanied by discussion by people wot are studying such things. > > http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/ > > Chapter XI is the one (1) about teh flood. Thank you...thank you...thank you... ;o) I have already begun to read it...very interesting indeed. > > -- > nuts
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:57:43 -0500, Shirley wrote: > "mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message > news:fke21l$rk5$1@aioe.org... > >> Shirley wrote: >> >>> "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:GNydnbVuXPh7KvTanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@giganews.com... >>> >>>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:47:35 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>>> >>>>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>news:ab6dnTulvIImAPTanZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com... >>>>> >>>>>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>"headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>>>news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>we can flood TB away. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 >>>>>>>>and >>>>>>>>have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair >>>>>>>maidens >>>>>>>and >>>>>>>lots of sword fights... >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>what is your favourite flood? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. >>>>>> >>>>>>They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't >>>>>>even >>>>>>give credits. >>>>> >>>>>Gilgamesh...why does that sound so familiar? >>>> >>>>His epic was a "best-seller" written on clay for two-three thousand >>>>years? >>>> >>>>Grab a copy of the Gardner-and-Maier edition/version, which is syncretic >>>>but basically based on a Late Babylonian version. >>>> >>>>It's the bee's knees, just beautiful, and even the gaps add to its aura >>>>of >>>>antiquity . . . . >>>> >>>>My favorite character in all of ancient lit'rature is Siduri, the Barmaid >>>>of the Gods (she was the only one of 'em who would talk to Gilgamesh, >>>>although there may've been an encounter with Shamash, the Sun, during, >>>>ironically, Gilgamesh's days-long journey through darkness, which is >>>>fragmented yet). >>> >>> Is this a book that can be found at the Library?? >>> >> Some libraries. But it's all over the interweb too. Sometimes >> accompanied by discussion by people wot are studying such things. >> >> http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/ >> >> Chapter XI is the one (1) about teh flood. > > Thank you...thank you...thank you... ;o) > > I have already begun to read it...very interesting indeed. Gardner-and-Maier, Gardner-and-Maier, Gardner-and-Maier, Gardner-and-Maier . . . . It should be in one-a yer local libraries, the nearest college library if nothing else, and, if not, then readily available on interlibrary loan. There's numerous editions of the epic around, but that one, argh, I fell in immediate love with it and bagged a copy of my own. Hmm, let's see: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...f&ds=30&sortby=2&sts=t&tn=Gilgamesh&x=74&y=12 Thirty used copies available on abebooks right now, starting at the low low price of $2.37 . . . . -- tinmimus99@hotmail.com smeeter 11 or maybe 12 mp 10 mhm 29x13 The sea grew quiet, the storm was still; the Flood stopped. I looked out at the day. Stillness had settled in. All of humanity was turned to clay. The ground was like a great, flat roof. I opened the window and light fell on my face. I crouched, sitting, and wept. My tears flowed over my cheeks. < _Gilgamesh_ (Gardner and Maier)
"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:s_OdnSDZW8fmL_fanZ2dnUVZ_gGdnZ2d@giganews.com... > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:57:43 -0500, Shirley wrote: > >> "mixed nuts" <melopsitticus@undulatus.budgie> wrote in message >> news:fke21l$rk5$1@aioe.org... >> >>> Shirley wrote: >>> >>>> "mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:GNydnbVuXPh7KvTanZ2dnUVZ_hWdnZ2d@giganews.com... >>>> >>>>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:47:35 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>"mimus" <tinmimus99@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>>news:ab6dnTulvIImAPTanZ2dnUVZ_jCdnZ2d@giganews.com... >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:34:15 -0500, Shirley wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>"headkase" <psykoexgirlfriend@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>>>>>>news:fedd1bc5-3b1b-4170-8b1a-5a897f8ab045@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>we can flood TB away. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>talking flood, well that takes me to the flood on Halo, and Halo 2 >>>>>>>>>and >>>>>>>>>have not played enough Halo 3 to know if there is a flood there. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I like playing role games where there is wizards, dragons, fair >>>>>>>>maidens >>>>>>>>and >>>>>>>>lots of sword fights... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>what is your favourite flood? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>Johnstown, Pa...or the one in the Bible...Noah and his Ark. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>They stole that that last one from the epic of Gilgamesh and didn't >>>>>>>even >>>>>>>give credits. >>>>>> >>>>>>Gilgamesh...why does that sound so familiar? >>>>> >>>>>His epic was a "best-seller" written on clay for two-three thousand >>>>>years? >>>>> >>>>>Grab a copy of the Gardner-and-Maier edition/version, which is >>>>>syncretic >>>>>but basically based on a Late Babylonian version. >>>>> >>>>>It's the bee's knees, just beautiful, and even the gaps add to its aura >>>>>of >>>>>antiquity . . . . >>>>> >>>>>My favorite character in all of ancient lit'rature is Siduri, the >>>>>Barmaid >>>>>of the Gods (she was the only one of 'em who would talk to Gilgamesh, >>>>>although there may've been an encounter with Shamash, the Sun, during, >>>>>ironically, Gilgamesh's days-long journey through darkness, which is >>>>>fragmented yet). >>>> >>>> Is this a book that can be found at the Library?? >>>> >>> Some libraries. But it's all over the interweb too. Sometimes >>> accompanied by discussion by people wot are studying such things. >>> >>> http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/ >>> >>> Chapter XI is the one (1) about teh flood. >> >> Thank you...thank you...thank you... ;o) >> >> I have already begun to read it...very interesting indeed. > > Gardner-and-Maier, Gardner-and-Maier, Gardner-and-Maier, Gardner-and-Maier > . . . . > > It should be in one-a yer local libraries, the nearest college library > if nothing else, and, if not, then readily available on interlibrary loan. > > There's numerous editions of the epic around, but that one, argh, I fell > in immediate love with it and bagged a copy of my own. > > Hmm, let's see: > > http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...f&ds=30&sortby=2&sts=t&tn=Gilgamesh&x=74&y=12 > > Thirty used copies available on abebooks right now, starting at the low > low price of $2.37 . . . . I will try and get someone to order me one for Christmas or soon afterwards...then we can talk about it... ;o) > > -- > tinmimus99@hotmail.com > > smeeter 11 or maybe 12 > > mp 10 > > mhm 29x13 > > The sea grew quiet, the storm was still; the Flood stopped. > I looked out at the day. Stillness had settled in. > All of humanity was turned to clay. > The ground was like a great, flat roof. > I opened the window and light fell on my face. > I crouched, sitting, and wept. > My tears flowed over my cheeks. > > < _Gilgamesh_ (Gardner and Maier) >
