Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 Neither Blade nor Sponge
Shall keep me from my duly appointed First

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (xC2Ng)

3 yow!

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (R11M+)

4 Those halos that look like a plastic dish always seem weird.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 25, 2025 09:31 AM (WPL6O)

5 Nice painting but St. Jerome's head seems a little large for his body.

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (lJ0H4)

6 I love the reverence and love for the Eucharist being depicted here.

Even in his last days, St Jerome kneels to receive.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (mT+6a)

7 Is that supposed to be the same Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

8 Nicely done, but then wasn't painted by some slacker in the 1940s

Posted by: Skip at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (M7ic3)

9 symmetrical. short guy balances two eunuchs.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (R11M+)

10 "Latin Jerome. I suggest you do it in Latin."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (0RiMX)

11 Damned feet!

I'm hiding one of them with a rug and the others with socks!

Posted by: Botticelli at November 25, 2025 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

12 Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:32 AM (77rzZ)

Yes; Vulgate Bible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:34 AM (lQ+/f)

13 Dude's got no feet!

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 09:34 AM (NwnyJ)

14 Word is that St. Jerome and Saint Augustine hung out a lot, drinking beer and clanking haloes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (0RiMX)

15 My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.

Posted by: NYC Librarian at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (11PJ2)

16 one chip challenge.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (R11M+)

17 Saint Jerome is the patron saint of librarians, scholars, students, and abandoned children, recognized for his contributions to biblical translation and scholarship

Posted by: redridinghood at November 25, 2025 09:35 AM (NpAcC)

18 Dr. Peter Venkman: Have you, or any member of your family, ever been diagnosed schizophrenic...mentally incompetent?

Alice (librarian): My uncle thought he was Saint Jerome.

Dr. Peter Venkman: I'd call that a big yes.

Posted by: Ghostbusters at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (EnKfA)

19 The thing that caught my eye was the 2nd guy from right, "Dorf"

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

20 I suppose this was painted when Botticelli was trying to atone for his earlier bobbed works like The Birth of Venus, under Savonarola’s influence.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

21 "that chrome don't get ya home, jerome."

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (R11M+)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Savanarola. You won't be seein' him around here no more.

*lights match*

Posted by: Clemenza at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (0RiMX)

24 They look..............Asian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

25 Saint Jerome is the patron saint of librarians...

So maybe there WAS a connection with the Ghostbusters librarian!!!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (EnKfA)

26 Like this one . Botticelli's great with colors.
Would hang, thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (bfwj/)

27 that was inappropriate

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (AOsQT)

28 *earlier boobed works*

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (77rzZ)

29 First the cigarette, then the blindfold.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (BI5O2)

30 Typical beautiful Botticelli. Nicely balanced, pleasing colors.

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (lJ0H4)

31 Yet another artist that can't depict feet very well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

32 Architecture was very basic in those days.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (0RiMX)

33 24 they aren't rushin'

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:38 AM (R11M+)

34 Horny ass bastard!

Soon after the death of his patron Pope Damasus I on 10 December 384, Jerome was forced to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 09:39 AM (L/fGl)

35 I meant my comment
I apologize to the faithful
I admire your discipline

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 09:39 AM (AOsQT)

36 Neither Blade nor Sponge
Shall keep me from my duly appointed First
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at November 25, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)

Your not being an obnoxious douche about it is appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

37 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?

Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

38 37 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?

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The New Testament was.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0RiMX)

39 Parts of the Old Testament were believed to be originally written in Klingon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0RiMX)

40 Renaissance paintings are always compelling to me. I could hang this if I had a proper library or study to display it. Alas, the Man Cave is not suitable.

But I do have a room at home that serves as an office that could be a future locale for such art.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (6qf1m)

41 Soon after the death of his patron Pope Damasus I on 10 December 384, Jerome was forced to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

The Paolo, he...how you say...respect.

Posted by: The Paolo at November 25, 2025 09:42 AM (EnKfA)

42

Morris Day in the deep background overheard saying "Jerome, bring me my mirror!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2025 09:42 AM (x0n13)

43 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?
Posted by: dantesed at November 25, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

Yeah, like most Latin things over the centuries. Septuagint was first, then a hodgepodge of partial Latin translations, and eventually the full Vulgate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:43 AM (BI5O2)

44
Morris Day in the deep background overheard saying "Jerome, bring me my mirror!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 25, 2025 09:42 AM (x0n13)

"COOK! Where's my hassenpfeffer?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

45 Saint Jerome was angry that day, my friends.

Posted by: George Costanza at November 25, 2025 09:44 AM (XQo4F)

46 Is Jerome getting a reach around by that monk behind him? Looks suspicious.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 09:44 AM (g8Ew8)

47 Private US job losses continue to increase.

Can we accuse Biden? Hillary ! No it is all Obama's fault

They should all be hung

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 25, 2025 09:45 AM (KLQUC)

48 stalled

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:46 AM (R11M+)

49 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 25, 2025 09:45 AM (KLQUC)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at November 25, 2025 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

50 Dude, 100-comment rule.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

51 ASS does have a point. 2nd look at ASS?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

52 Nice devotional painting. I like the colors and it's nice to think of Jerome receiving the Eucharist so devoutly before he died.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 09:47 AM (ZeH0U)

53 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I just love how they decorated with fronds!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 09:48 AM (y3bZw)

54 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. I just love how they decorated with fronds!
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 09:48 AM (y3bZw)

The were PINING for the fronds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

55 What's up with the goofy haircuts?

Posted by: Not a fan at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (XQo4F)

56 vulgate deters eucharist.
but you can still smell it.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (R11M+)

57 So, the Bible was in Greek before it was translated into Latin. Have I got that right?

The Romans appeared to have had a much deeper respect for Greek culture than for Roman culture.

In Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Thomas Cahill wrote that “Contact with the impressive stories of Greek mythology and the thrilling art that accompanied them encouraged the Romans to dress up their own religion in Greek fashions. Their high God, Jupiter, they reinterpreted as a variant of Greek Zeus. Roman Venus was assigned the Greek stories about Aphrodite…”

I’d always thought it was the other way: that when the Romans conquered an area, they forced the conquered gods into Roman forms. If Cahill is right (he might not be; the book is not nearly as well written as his Irish book), it indicates an incredible degradation of Roman cultural strength.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (olroh)

58 Why would anyone put salve on a roll anyway?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

59 The New Testament was.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:41 AM (0RiMX)

Old Testament, too (+ apocrypha). Greece was the entry point in the Roman Empire for both Jewish and Christian beliefs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:50 AM (BI5O2)

60 It’s Tummy Rub Tuesday!

Lucy the Fink got hers! You know they want it!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)

61 55 What's up with the goofy haircuts?

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It's called an anachronism. There was no such thing as a tonsure in Jerome's day.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 09:51 AM (0RiMX)

62 Who told you to put the balm on?

Posted by: Jackie Chiles at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (XQo4F)

63
Lucy the Fink got hers! You know they want it!
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 25, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)

Foster will get one at some point.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Zz0t1)

64 LOL, Horde Mind never sleeps

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (Cjt/F)

65 ~300BC The Septuagint (The Latin name for the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures means ‘seventy,’ and comes from the idea that 70 (or 72) Jewish scholars were asked by Egyptian king Ptolemy II (who was Greek), to complete individual copies to be placed in the Library of Alexandria.)

42 – 100 AD The New Testament (There are almost 6000 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament, many are only fragments of the full text.)
For approximate dates of each New Testament book, read When Was the New Testament Written? For a list of biblical authors, read The Books of the Bible by Author.

405 AD Vulgate (Jerome of Stridon, at the request of Pope Damasus I, compiled and retranslated existing Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek manuscripts to create a Latin Bible.)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM (0sNs1)

66 'Last Communion'? 'Saint'? Why am I posing for this painting?

Posted by: Jerome at November 25, 2025 09:53 AM (63An5)

67 Parts of the Old Testament were believed to be originally written in Klingon.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

The Joshua kicks ass and Sampson with jawbone of an ass parts.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 09:53 AM (L/fGl)

68 I was Paul Squires?

Posted by: Rick at November 25, 2025 09:54 AM (0wVYr)

69 What's up with the goofy haircuts?

Mom's bowl had a hole in it.
Posted by: Moe Howard

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 09:54 AM (PDBoZ)

70 Looks like a bunch of monks sharing a joint between prayers.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 09:55 AM (sl73Y)

71 It was all Aramaic to me.

Posted by: The man from Galilee at November 25, 2025 09:55 AM (XQo4F)

72 405 AD Vulgate (Jerome of Stridon, at the request of Pope Damasus I, compiled and retranslated existing Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek manuscripts to create a Latin Bible.)
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Would have been much simpler to write it in English.

Posted by: Clueless at November 25, 2025 09:56 AM (PDBoZ)

73 Looks like a bunch of monks sharing a joint between prayers.
Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 09:55 AM (sl73Y)

It's long been rumored the neanderthal man they found frozen had a bag of weed on his waist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

74 "...had a bag of weed on his waist."
---
It was the style at the time.

Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at November 25, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)

75 The Romans appeared to have had a much deeper respect for Greek culture than for Roman culture.

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Certainly so. The Latins of various stripes worshipped primitive, numinous deities before outright cribbing the Greek gods and using them as the basis for their civic faith.

But it wasn't just religion. Far back into the Republican period, Romans paid steep prices for Greek slaves to tutor their children, and Greek language fluency was a prerequisite for public life - Latin-only speakers were considered backcountry hillbillies.

Romans were focused on indigenous intellectual pursuits to the extent that they served the higher purposes of war and agriculture, and looked toward Greece for high-minded stuff like art and poetry and philosophy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 09:58 AM (BI5O2)

76 It was the style at the time.
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at November 25, 2025 09:57 AM (XQo4F)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Taylor Lorenz at November 25, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

77 Soon after the death of his patron Pope Damasus I on 10 December 384, Jerome was forced to leave his position at Rome after an inquiry was brought up by the Roman clergy into allegations that he had an improper relationship with the widow Paula.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

Would that be Pope Damasus' widow?

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 09:58 AM (sl73Y)

78 Sponge, are you talking about Oetzi the Iceman? He was a modern human, not Neanderthal.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

79 Who told you to put the balm on?
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM

A bomb?!!!

Posted by: Brian's Mother at November 25, 2025 09:59 AM (kgE5c)

80 Sponge, are you talking about Oetzi the Iceman? He was a modern human, not Neanderthal.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

I don't know, exactly. I just remember an old pothead from my past talking about it years ago. Don't remember details.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

81 Who told you to put the balm on?
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at November 25, 2025 09:52 AM

Buffalo Bill.

Posted by: The woman in the pit at November 25, 2025 10:01 AM (0sNs1)

82 St Jerome, patron of libraries, pray for us.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at November 25, 2025 10:01 AM (Wx316)

83 Hey, hey, Paula.
I wanna ****** you...

Posted by: Young and amorous Jerry at November 25, 2025 10:03 AM (XQo4F)

84 72, I know, right? what were they thinking?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 25, 2025 10:03 AM (Cjt/F)

85 Does the feet make sense to anyone? Look at the two sets of feet on the right. Is the monk in back a centaur? I honestly don't get it.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:03 AM (3uBP9)

86 Cicero bitched about the number of Greek words coming into Latin in his day.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

87 I heard someone, I forget who, state it well: "The Greeks lived with their heads in the clouds, and the Romans with their boots in the mud."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (BI5O2)

88 Is one set of feet from the other monk off to their right, leaning?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (3uBP9)

89 Would have been much simpler to write it in English.
Posted by: Clueless at November 25, 2025 09:56 AM

There are subtleties in Greek that aren't present in English. Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

90 “I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't WANT to know anything about her private life. She didn't HAVE a private life.”

Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, NYC Public Library cop at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)

91 Don't look up "was a neanderthal found with pot".

Bing musta confuzzled cannabis with cannibal.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (PDBoZ)

92 From what I’ve read, Jerome was pretty cantankerous. You did not want to get on his bad side.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:06 AM (77rzZ)

93 Sorry, but it looks like the dude's lighting Jerome's last cigarette.

Posted by: Dr_No at November 25, 2025 10:06 AM (ayRl+)

94 “I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly, discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life. We didn't WANT to know anything about her private life. She didn't HAVE a private life.”
Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, NYC Public Library cop at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (XQo4F)

"GET HER!!!"

- - - - - Ray Stantz

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:06 AM (Zz0t1)

95 Those halos that look like a plastic dish always seem weird.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm"

I thought they were frisbees.

Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (vFG9F)

96 92 i only know this side of him.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (R11M+)

97 I thought they were frisbees.
Posted by: fd at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (

The Ultimate Frisbee, as it were.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:07 AM (BI5O2)

98 The foot in the middle is wrong, appears to be a right foot when it should be the peter Loore guy's left foot.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (sl73Y)

99 Geronimo.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (LHPAg)

100 True art:
https://is.gd/WABEPq

--Quinton Tarantino

Posted by: No Name Today at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (8mulE)

101 Jerome of Stridon, at the request of Pope Damasus I, compiled and retranslated existing Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, and Greek manuscripts to create a Latin Bible.

We're fortunate that he asked Jerome, and not Google.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (E24OL)

102 Jump!

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (LHPAg)

103 Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me
Don't bogart that joint, my friend
Pass it over to me...

Posted by: Old Dirty Hippie at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (1mUlr)

104 I remember when the librarian was a much older woman:

I never particularly enjoyed Seinfeld. But clips form Seinfeld are a completely different story. https://youtu.be/XzzMamksqP0

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at November 25, 2025 10:09 AM (olroh)

105 Jump!
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM (LHPAg)

Might as well.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

106 Jump!
Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:08 AM

To the left!

Posted by: Transylvanians at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (0sNs1)

107 The 100 Comment Wall has been breached

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (AOsQT)

108 Donna Reed was a hot librarian in It’s a Wonderful Life.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

109 “Yeah, '71. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries. Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abbie Hoffman telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.”

Posted by: Lieutenant Bookman, NYC Public Library cop at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (XQo4F)

110 Don't jump!

Posted by: Creepy Joe at November 25, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)

111 From the previous thread…

Clyde Shelton,

You’re one of the few people here who understand the impact of h1bs. It’s not just a jobs thing it’s a culture thing too. Indians own tech and are colonizing all the tech hubs. As you posted Austin is turning into India. Large parts of Dallas are already there.

And not just tech. Consulting is another industry they’re slowly but surely taking over. Deloitte’s CEO is Indian. Good luck getting a job there as a white male.

Neither Trump nor the GOP see anything wrong with this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:11 AM (HW6XE)

112 The "tonsure" noted a church position. There were 7 ordained levels.

The tonsure was so a religious would be recognized if he went to a bar or whorehouse.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (d6BF2)

113 Jump!
Posted by: Eromero

Go ahead and jump!

Posted by: David Lee Roth at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (PDBoZ)

114 I heard someone, I forget who, state it well: "The Greeks lived with their heads in the clouds, and the Romans with their boots in the mud."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (BI5O2)

That reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quip: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (ufSfZ)

115 My knees once almost gave out getting up from kneeling on marble, in front of many hundreds of people at a cathedral. I deftly grabbed onto the top of my daughter's head and used her as a cane to right myself before confidently jive walking back to my pew with abundant poise.

I only heard about eighty people gasp in terror, I was cool though.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (3uBP9)

116 If I stumbled and I busted my whatchamacallit
I could lie on your floor unnoticed
Till my body had turned to carrion, madam librarian

Posted by: Bad Andrew at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (6qf1m)

117 Shirley Jones was also a pretty decent looking librarian.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (d6BF2)

118 I am thinking Jerome was Catholic.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:14 AM (PCK5/)

119 Shirley Jones......

https://is.gd/uwhn3Q

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

120 117 Shirley Jones was also a pretty decent looking librarian.
Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:13 AM (d6BF2)
So is SiD.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:15 AM (LHPAg)

121 There are subtleties in Greek that aren't present in English. Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 25, 2025 10:05 AM (0sNs1)

That's why it is important to study Scripture, not just read it.

For example - do some digging on "no room at the inn" as it relates to the story of Christmas. Luke wasn't talking about a hotel!!! Also, thee is no direct reference to a stable/barn. Manger, yes - but not a stable.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:16 AM (Ltmlv)

122 You know what this painting needs? A flyin' green dildo. It needs a flying green dildo!

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:17 AM (DDJSl)

123 You know what this painting needs? A flyin' green dildo. It needs a flying green dildo!
Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:17 AM (DDJSl)

Why? There are no nappy headed ho's playing basketball.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

124 Donna Reed was a hot librarian in It’s a Wonderful Life.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:10 AM (77rzZ)

I'd let her show me the Natural Sciences section.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 10:18 AM (y3bZw)

125 For example - do some digging on "no room at the inn" as it relates to the story of Christmas. Luke wasn't talking about a hotel!!! Also, thee is no direct reference to a stable/barn. Manger, yes - but not a stable.
Posted by: Doof

Damn you Tom Bodett!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:18 AM (PDBoZ)

126

Damn you Tom Bodett!
Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:18 AM (PDBoZ)

There were no lights.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (Zz0t1)

127 114 chrissy hinde

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

128 The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, finished around 1494–1495. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. (Wikipedia, in part.)

I'm always astounded at the beauty within the body of works done by the great artists of so many centuries ago.

Yes, I'd hang for the (children) 'lesson.'

Thanks.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (NFX2v)

129 The guys in the painting don't look anything like the Sedition Six.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 10:20 AM (y3bZw)

130 When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks.

Posted by: Mrs. Paroo at November 25, 2025 10:20 AM (wVcYX)

131 Is sanity breaking out?

NFL’s First Transgender Cheerleader Makes Claim About Panthers Departure: “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Shocking: Report Finds Locking Up Criminals Reduces Crime

U.S. Bishops Vote To Prohibit Trans Surgeries, Hormone Treatment In Catholic Hospitals

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

132 Jesus was most likely born in a house, just the part of the house where they kept the livestock.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

133 chrissy hinde
Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

Her dad had to tell her to lighten up and allow Rush Limbaugh to use his show theme.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

134 There were no lights.
Posted by: Sponge

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (PDBoZ)

135 Why? There are no nappy headed ho's playing basketball.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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There will be at the stuper-bowl though. And I'll be coming in hot and hard! HOT AND HARD!!

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (DDJSl)

136 Jesus was most likely born in a house, just the part of the house where they kept the livestock.
Posted by: Bulg

So THAT'S where "were you born in a barn?" comes from!

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:22 AM (PDBoZ)

137 OK Jerry, you blew a 1.05. Book him for DUI!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 25, 2025 10:22 AM (0+SyD)

138 Dorothy Malone was a hot bookseller in The Big Sleep

https://shorturl.at/VRTI4

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:22 AM (AOsQT)

139 >>> NFL’s First Transgender Cheerleader Makes Claim About Panthers Departure: “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

a little snip here, a little snip there

Posted by: banana Dream at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (3uBP9)

140
Shocking: Report Finds Locking Up Criminals Reduces Crime

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I chuckled. Then realized the real joke is that we need a study like this.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (HW6XE)

141 There are no nappy headed ho's playing basketball.

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Michael Porter Jr. sparked controversy by claiming that a team of elite eighth-grade boys could defeat WNBA All-Stars. The controversy got amped up a bit when WNBA star Sophie Cunningham seemingly agreed.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (L/fGl)

142 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:23 AM (BI5O2)

143 When a woman's got a husband, and you've got none, why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare and all them other high-falutin' Greeks.
Posted by: Mrs. Paroo

Because sometimes, you CAN be the poster child for not what to do.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (PDBoZ)

144 Jesus was most likely born in a house, just the part of the house where they kept the livestock.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

This is what my studies have taught as well (a home / dwelling of some sort). Also that the number of magi (wise men) is not specified. Tradition attributes 3 because of the number of gifts mentioned.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (Ltmlv)

145 That link might be questionable

skip it
I don't know what happened there

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (AOsQT)

146 “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

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Yeah, that's how that works.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:24 AM (BI5O2)

147 Yeah, Shirley Jones in The Music Man was something else.

She was pregnant when she made that, which probably made her extra-dewy.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

148 chrissy hinde
Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)

Her dad had to tell her to lighten up and allow Rush Limbaugh to use his show theme.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (Zz0t1)

After 9/11, she screamed during a concert, "Hit us again! We deserve it!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:25 AM (ufSfZ)

149 After 9/11, she screamed during a concert, "Hit us again! We deserve it!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:25 AM (ufSfZ)

Such a shame. Insufferable twat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Cheerleader was HIRED because of being trans. He (yes, HE) was cut because he was awful.

Posted by: Doof at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (Ltmlv)

151 You guys are missing Shirley Jones in Elmer Gantry

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (AOsQT)

152 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Her latest climate alarm stunt of pouring green dye in canals got her evicted and banned from Venice.

Posted by: Tuna at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (lJ0H4)

153 The Magi didn’t come along until Jesus was about 2.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:26 AM (77rzZ)

154 That reminds me of an Oscar Wilde quip: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:12 AM (ufSfZ)

Chrissy Hynde liked the line.
https://is.gd/MIlht2

Posted by: No Name Today at November 25, 2025 10:27 AM (8mulE)

155 >>“I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Are we talking from the cheerleader squad or the other kind of cut?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 10:27 AM (viF8m)

156 133 proceeds to peta.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (R11M+)

157 >>“I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Are we talking from the cheerleader squad or the other kind of cut?
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Either or.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (NwnyJ)

158 Jerome's letters are full of insults, yes. Even Augustine got slapped around. Augustine was a good deal more tolerant of Jerome, probably because by then everyone accepted that Jerome was Jerome and wasn't going to change.
I bet that widow controversy was just cooked up so his enemies had something to tag on him. There's hints he swung the other way when he was younger.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (HC9wC)

159 Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.

==

They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

160 In Bethlehem, there are caves. Old caves. They were used as shelter for livestock.

By the time the Wise Men came along, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph were in a house.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:29 AM (d6BF2)

161 I hope the tranny sues and wins a lot of money. You got in bed with them NFL, now you own it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (HW6XE)

162 "They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!

St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (d6BF2)

163 Ban country music!

Democrat Aftyn Behn bizarrely tries to walk back her comments saying she "hates" Nashville and country music.

"I do not hate country music, I was conceived after a George Strait concert."

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P.S. Aftyn on police stations:

https://is.gd/tkTzCq

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (L/fGl)

164 They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

Or Aramaic!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (n9ltV)

165 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Knowing Australia, they'll arrest her and put her in the slammer next to the Aussie senator who wore a berka into the senate.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (y3bZw)

166 Bulg! Been meaning to ask. How is the Postal orientation going?

Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (qQhFt)

167 148 "us?" ex- pat.

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (R11M+)

168 I just saw an Australian lady call Greta "the Swedish doom goblin." Tough, but fair.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

How daaaaare you!!

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (HW6XE)

169 St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (d6BF2)

that is the way

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (g47mK)

170
Brian's mother: Who are you?
Wise Man #2: We are three wise men.
Brian's mother: What?
Wise Man #1: We are three wise men.
Brian's mother: Well, what are you doing creeping around a cow shed at two o'clock in the morning? That doesn't sound very wise to me.
Wise Man #1: We were led by a star.
Brian's mother: Led by a bottle, more like.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (wVcYX)

171 You haven't experienced the Book of Judges unless you've read it in the original Klingon.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (HC9wC)

172 Seems important.

>>Ukraine reportedly agrees to U.S.-brokered peace proposal

https://tinyurl.com/h7xkz5xs

Posted by: JackStraw at November 25, 2025 10:32 AM (viF8m)

173 Bulg! Been meaning to ask. How is the Postal orientation going?
Posted by: Common Tater at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (qQhFt)

Learning how to go postal?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

174 Speaking of Oz, it went unreported here of course but they had a Save Australia Day over there recently with hundreds of thousands in the street marching against immigration.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 25, 2025 10:32 AM (HW6XE)

175 167 Tater, I decided to postpone it for now. Too much else going on in my life right now.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

176 169 St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

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I barely got learned in English.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (0RiMX)

177
"I do not hate country music, I was conceived after a George Strait concert."

Seems daddy forgot mommy has a face for a reason.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

178 @13/Martini Farmer: "Dude's got no feet!"

And now I'm seeing the nearly legless short zombie next to the ambulance in "Return of the Living Dead".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 25, 2025 10:33 AM (O7YUW)

179 IIRC Jerome left the Psalms in the original old-latin translation from the Septuagint, but that's okay because the Septuagint did a proper translation from the Psalms.
The Septuagint gets a deservedly bad rap for some of its translations, and although its translation from the Torah is good it's from a tweaked neoTorah like the Samaritans were using (and still use).
But the Psalms were legit so Jerome left them alone.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:34 AM (PmqH/)

180 But the Psalms were legit so Jerome left them alone.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:34 AM (PmqH

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Kind of like a director using stock footage for parts of the film.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 25, 2025 10:35 AM (0RiMX)

181 After 9/11, she screamed during a concert, "Hit us again! We deserve it!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

Then she went back to Ohio and her city was gone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (L/fGl)

182 Tradition attributes 3 because of the number of gifts mentioned.

There are four gifts. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.

Posted by: J-L P at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (E24OL)

183 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement
-—----

If true - chalk another one up for me.

They've all been paid off or threatened of both. The idea is to hand the House to the Dems who couldn't win it otherwise, just like in 18.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (E0p3T)

184 Biblical translation is the pinnacle of translation.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (77rzZ)

185 All politicians lie. I'm guessing Miss Aftyn was actually a butt-baby conceived in the alley behind a gay bar where a Boy George cover band was playing, and this is just a sad attempt to cover up her unconventional ass-gestation from voters. It's also why she says men can birth. She knows the nauseating truth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:37 AM (BI5O2)

186 181 was that around the time she "shot her mouth off?"

Posted by: cmeat at November 25, 2025 10:37 AM (R11M+)

187 Kind of like a director using stock footage for parts of the film.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Also the Latin Psalms were too familiar to Latin-speaking Jews and Christians. Changing those up for the sake of changing them would have pissed everyone off.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:38 AM (PmqH/)

188 The problem with the Septuagint was its inclusion of the Apocryphal books, which were not in the Masoretic Text.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

189 This piece is marvelously rendered. St Jerome's supplication is tangible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (A0sqA)

190 I have an uncle who thinks he is St. Jerome.

Posted by: Library lady who saw a ghost at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (YGRGv)

191 NFL’s First Transgender Cheerleader Makes Claim About Panthers Departure: “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

I bet he was hired in the first place because he was trans and later cut because he was a nutcase and a drama queen.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 25, 2025 10:40 AM (FMtrg)

192 Many Biblical scholars end up learning Greek to really appreciate Scripture.

==

They should try original Hebrew to really appreciate 2/3 of it!
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:28 AM (g47mK)

This!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)

193 Something I've often wondered: Given that Saint Jerome is a Super Famous Christian (a Doctor of the Church, no less), how did "Jerome" become such a stereotypically Jewish name?

Saint Jerome wasn't even a Jewish convert. He was of Balkan ancestry.

Even naming a Jewish kid Jesus would seem less weird, since that name is at least of Hebrew ancestry (derived from Joshua).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (IG3/x)

194 Translate this.......

https://is.gd/Yv0ZXL

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Had a trick-or-treater come by on Halloween who was dressed as St. Francis of Assisi.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

196 Nice work

Posted by: Archer at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (YGRGv)

197 “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

Sorry, no refunds!

Posted by: Genital Mutilations Done Dirt Cheap at November 25, 2025 10:41 AM (XFXIk)

198 188 The problem with the Septuagint was its inclusion of the Apocryphal books, which were not in the Masoretic Text.
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ
Geneva Bible.

Posted by: Eromero at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (LHPAg)

199 169 St. Jerome was learned in Hebrew and Greek and Aramaic.

Posted by: no one at November 25, 2025 10:30 AM (d6BF2)

that is the way
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:31 AM (g47mK)

I’m learned in American Ozark, Spanglish, and Big Box Store French…

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

200 Meh, Sirach came close to being in the MT. The Talmud cites it.
Tobit's the book I'd rather the Christians had left in those caves, like the Masoretes had done.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PmqH/)

201 Speaking of Oz . . .

Variety@Variety
Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell? Because It's the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

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Dorothy wanted the Wizard to give her an abortion.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

202 IIRC Jerome left the Psalms in the original old-latin translation from the Septuagint, but that's okay because the Septuagint did a proper translation from the Psalms.

I grew up on the Douay-Rheims translation, so that's always been my go-to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at November 25, 2025 10:43 AM (ufSfZ)

203 “I Was Cut Because I’m Trans”

The team simply needs to post a rebuttal stating that no, HE wasn't cut for his decision to pretend to be a woman, HE was cut because he couldn't perform up to the standards of the team and the ladies were tired of a swinging dick in the locker room.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:43 AM (Zz0t1)

204 I saw Gay Bar Butt Babies open for the Circle Jerks and the Butthole Surfers at a warehouse show in LA back in '79.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:43 AM (IG3/x)

205 the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

It's all so tiresome.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PmqH/)

206 I recommend “ Bridging the Testaments” by George Athas. Covers those 400 years pretty thoroughly from several angles.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PCK5/)

207 I’m learned in American Ozark, Spanglish, and Big Box Store French…
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

that explains everything !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

208 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement
-—----

If true - chalk another one up for me.

They've all been paid off or threatened of both. The idea is to hand the House to the Dems who couldn't win it otherwise, just like in 18.
Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:36 AM (E0p3T)

I'll wait and see. I don't trust anonymous "they said" predictions.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g8Ew8)

209 the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

It's all so tiresome.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PmqH/)

Woman defeats woman with the help of multiple men.

How does that defeat the patriarchy again?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

210 Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell? Because It's the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head
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Yeah, that's what it is, you schizos.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (E0p3T)

211 There are four gifts. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Posted by: J-L P

Plus a lime and a coconut.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (L/fGl)

212 207 I’m learned in American Ozark, Spanglish, and Big Box Store French…
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (PCK5/)

that explains everything !
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

You still like me though, right? Right?????

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (PCK5/)

213 200 I did not know that. Thanks!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (77rzZ)

214 I'll wait and see. I don't trust anonymous "they said" predictions.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g8Ew

I don't either (which is why I said if true). But I trust my own instincts.

Posted by: ... at November 25, 2025 10:45 AM (E0p3T)

215 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 25, 2025 10:42 AM (L/fGl)

When everything is about patriarchy nothing is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 25, 2025 10:46 AM (1Vo6X)

216 > 205 the Movie That First Flipped the Patriarchy on Its Head

It's all so tiresome.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (PmqH/)

What, you don't like things that are "stunning" and "brave"?

Oddly, being "stunning" and "brave" never seems to involve challenging Islam.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (IG3/x)

217 > Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell?
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it's those damned flying monkeys

Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (AOsQT)

218 @212, tubal, you are very special !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

219 193 Something I've often wondered: Given that Saint Jerome is a Super Famous Christian (a Doctor of the Church, no less), how did "Jerome" become such a stereotypically Jewish name?

I read somewhere that immigrant Jews, as a way of assimilating in the late 19th/early 20th century named their kids using the English names fashionable at the time. That's how Arthur, Howard, Jerome, etc. became known as Jewish names.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at November 25, 2025 10:48 AM (0bjKf)

220 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement

Oh, no! Anyways...

They severely overestimate our love for them.

Posted by: t-bird at November 25, 2025 10:48 AM (XFXIk)

221 Anyone here read The Wizard of Oz, Ozma of Oz??

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:48 AM (PCK5/)

222 Huh. Jerome is the Francophone corruption of the Greek name Hieronymous. Geronimo is the Spansish version.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:49 AM (BI5O2)

223 A senior House Republican predicts that more "explosive early resignations are coming" after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-Ga.) surprise announcement

Oh, no! Anyways...

They severely overestimate our love for them.

Hell, most of us here would be thrilled if they were set on fire on their way out the door.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

224 218 @212, tubal, you are very special !
Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

Et toi aussi!

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (PCK5/)

225 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

226 Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus !

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (g47mK)

227 Nice colors in today's art but those monks look like they're going to kill him when he's done.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (xcxpd)

228 225 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

Well, sorting out the Johns and Marys can be vexing.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (PCK5/)

229 225 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)

I think that was a Jesus things, giving people new names, new identities, new life...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (xcxpd)

230 it's those damned flying monkeys
Posted by: Don Black
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Are you sure they were monkeys?

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at November 25, 2025 10:51 AM (DDJSl)

231 222 Hieronymus?

That’s Bosch!

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)

232 Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell?
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it's those damned flying monkeys
Posted by: Don Black at November 25, 2025 10:47 AM (AOsQT)

It's the poppy field. Makes ya feel real good.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (g8Ew8)

233 Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus !

His name is my name, too!

Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (ufSfZ)

234 Hell, most of us here would be thrilled if they were set on fire on their way out the door.

However, this could make things interesting. He's got to be better at selling our side than the rest of those mooks, and we'd know he's just a whore for whatever needs selling - just like the rest of them - but he's good at it.

The 'ShamWow guy' is running for Congress in Texas

https://is.gd/5mbGIi

Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:52 AM (Riz8t)

235 Hell, most of us here would be thrilled if they were set on fire on their way out the door.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 25, 2025 10:50 AM (Riz8t)

Yes. If it's done before they're outside, it might light up the whole g-ddamned building and take out the rest of them, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:53 AM (BI5O2)

236 222 Huh. Jerome is the Francophone corruption of the Greek name Hieronymous. Geronimo is the Spansish version.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 10:49 AM (BI5O2)

Yelling “ Hieronymous” when out the door skydiving never caught on I guess.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:53 AM (PCK5/)

237 > Why Does 'The Wizard of Oz' Still Cast Such a Wicked Spell?

You got 2 witches and a frigging wizard. What do you expect?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (snZF9)

238 When I said Delarosa could use some more lip filler I did not mean with lead.
Lead is gor low riders.

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (rGPrJ)

239 Yeshua, Joshua, Jesus, all equivalent, yes?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (PCK5/)

240 Republicans who are resigning are doing so to help Democrats. They are playing for the other team.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (FMtrg)

241 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
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Reminds me of baptismal stories when I was a kid where parents were struggling to find saint's names for the official rites. Nancy, Donna, Peggy, Dottie, Patty, etc. were NOT saint names.

Lotsa Mary.

Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 10:55 AM (WiQPM)

242 Those Munchkins always seemed pretty well-fed and prosperous. The Wicked Witch of the East kinda sucked at the evil overlord thing.

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

243 241
Reminds me of baptismal stories when I was a kid where parents were struggling to find saint's names for the official rites. Nancy, Donna, Peggy, Dottie, Patty, etc. were NOT saint names.

Lotsa Mary.
Posted by: mustbequantum at November 25, 2025 10:55 AM (WiQPM)

Well, there IS Something About Mary.
…… I’ll go stand over here.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:56 AM (PCK5/)

244 Yeshua, Joshua, Jesus, all equivalent, yes?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:54 AM (PCK5/)

Si.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:56 AM (g8Ew8)

245 Lotsa Mary.
Posted by: mustbequantum
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A whole lotta' Rosie

Posted by: Zombie Bon Scott at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (DDJSl)

246 Let me see if I remember correctly, Jews were forced to take names understandable to the locals under whose jurisdiction they lived. And adopt last names, because they did not have that "designation". For instance, in ancient times dwellings had depictions and flags to distinguish them from their neighbors. "Go to he house with a scorpion on the shield, then turn left". Anyway, take last name Adler. Means Eagle in German. Probably lived in a house that had an eagle depicted on it.

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (g47mK)

247 I'll wait and see. I don't trust anonymous "they said" predictions.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 25, 2025 10:44 AM (g8Ew

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They said you'd say that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (IBQGV)

248 Don’t a lot of Jews still have two different names, a Hebrew one and a non-Hebrew one, like Saul/Paul?
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Jerome / Jeroboam

Posted by: Operator Error at November 25, 2025 10:57 AM (rGPrJ)

249 Alternative interpretation of TWOO:

Dorothy and her crew represent the forces of laissez-faire classic liberalism (no connection to what is called "liberalism" today), defeating both the Stalinist/Maoist leftist personality cult of the Wicked Witch and the traditional society based on the notion of "nobility", represented by the fraudulent wizard.

It should be noted that in the original book, the magic slippers were silver (a metaphor for money), not ruby as in the film.

I suspect the change to ruby slippersbwas made just to show off their newfangled color photography.

I'm old enough to remember when television announcers would note at the beginning of the film that the Kansas scenes were in black and white while the Oz scenes were in color, just so people wouldn't think something was wrong with their sets.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (IG3/x)

250 2 nights in a row sleeping like crap.

I need a nap......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

251 Do not see a lot of Ahab or Jezebel as baby names.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

252 Do not see a lot of Ahab or Jezebel as baby names.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

The most popular name in the world is moohamhead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

253 250 2 nights in a row sleeping like crap.

I need a nap......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)

Broken sleep, or not falling asleep?

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (PCK5/)

254
Broken sleep, or not falling asleep?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (PCK5/)

All of the above.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

255 Many Jazmine, Jasmine. Comes from Jazz. Which is ...Jezebel music!

Posted by: runner at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (g47mK)

256
Do not see a lot of Ahab or Jezebel as baby names.
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:58 AM (PCK5/)

Yet, you do see Delilah, which is a headscratcher.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (BI5O2)

257 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

258 When my Mom worked as a nurse at U.-Mich. hospital, one black woman who gave birth there named her baby girl “Queen Esther.”

Posted by: Bulg at November 25, 2025 11:00 AM (77rzZ)

259 254
Broken sleep, or not falling asleep?
Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (PCK5/)

All of the above.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 25, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)

Ugh. Sorry bro. Get a copy of Systematic Theology by Louis Berkhof and read it in bed.

Posted by: tubal at November 25, 2025 11:01 AM (PCK5/)

260 Jerome / Jeroboam

I could go for a jeroboam of Veuve Cliquot right about now.

Posted by: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt at November 25, 2025 11:02 AM (ufSfZ)

261
nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 25, 2025 11:03 AM (tljrc)

262 > names understandable to the locals under whose jurisdiction they lived. And adopt last names, because they did not have that "designation".

Old joke:

Often the German officials would Jews demeaning name unless they were bribed.

Two Jews are returning from being assigned their new "family names".

Moshe: "So, what did he give you?"
Yitzhak: "Schweiss."
Moshe: "Schweiss? That's a stupid name. Couldn't you bribe him to get something better?"
Yitzhak: "It cost everything I had just to get the W'."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 25, 2025 11:05 AM (IG3/x)

263 @249 the magic slippers were silver (a metaphor for money)

What did you think "Oz." stood for?
The Baum story was an extended allegory of the bimetallism debate. There's a fair chance the Wizard is WJ Bryan.

The whole series was taken as pretty heavy business in politics, until the F.o.D. came along and fruited it up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 25, 2025 11:27 AM (zdLoL)

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