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davywavy ([personal profile] davywavy) wrote2003-01-16 11:31 pm
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Very erudite

Out to see a client today, and, whilst waiting for them, I was watching a report on one of the cable channels in their waiting room about US preparations for war in the Gulf. The shot showed missles being loaded for transit, and, as usual, people had stencilled messages like 'Saddam Buster' onto them.
However, one of them had 'Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin' stencilled on it, which I thought very erudite for a member of the armed forces.
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[identity profile] karohemd.livejournal.com 2003-01-16 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Impressive, young Skywalker

Very impressive

[identity profile] applez.livejournal.com 2003-01-16 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I learn something new every day. :-)

Sadly, it's right back to the 'This isn't a Crusade, honest guv'

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Also...staying scarce from my quotation meme, aren't you?

[identity profile] applez.livejournal.com 2003-01-16 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
What, afraid? ;-p

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Re: Also...staying scarce from my quotation meme, aren't you?

[identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com 2003-01-17 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Nope: offline :)
Been out seeing clients for a few days, and so I only get online at evenings that way.
I'm in work today & so will have more time.

[identity profile] godzuki.livejournal.com 2003-01-17 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
I love how searching for the meaning of this quote turned up a whole raft of conspiracy sites. Dont ask me why, but I love laughing at this stuff.

Im particularly impressed by this one : http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/delacroix/169/mene_tekel_upharsin.htm

A few choice quotes from the rant..


CAIN WAS A FARMER, AND A WALKER, AND WAS MARKED
GEORGE MEANS FARMER, ROCKEFELLER MEANS OWNER OF A RYE FIELD.
BARBARA MEANS STRANGER
BUSH MEANS SILVERY FOX.
IS IT A COINCIDENCE THAT HIS WIFE HAS THE LAST NAME OF WELCH (AS IN GRAPE JUICE)?



He also has something against womens equality...


WOMEN WENT TO WORK AND MANY MANCHILD'S WERE BORN.
MEN WITH NO WISDOM. INTELLIGENCE YES, WISDOM NO.

The Airline Industy seemed like a good thing to begin with but its end will be destruction. Stewardesses have played a huge roll in this. Again, I am not blaming anybody. I am blaming what we are all doing wrong because everyone will stand judgement.



Mrrr...crazies.

[identity profile] souldier-blue.livejournal.com 2003-01-17 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, I don't know what it means...

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[identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com 2003-01-17 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
'Mene Memne Tekel Upharsin' were the original writing on the wall - The Book of Daniel in the Old testament. During a feast of King Belshazzar, King of Babylon (modern Baghdad) the words appeared on the wall, written by teh hand of God. They were interpreted as meaning that God had wieghed his rule, judged his kingdom wanting, and decided it was to be destroyed - as it subsequently was by King Cyrus of the Persians.

Quite apposite given the current climate, really.

[identity profile] jonnyargles.livejournal.com 2003-01-17 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani?

Ex Manus Meum.

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[identity profile] davywavy.livejournal.com 2003-01-17 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
'Father, why have you forsaken me?', yes?

Does that crop up in Leviticus too?

[identity profile] jonnyargles.livejournal.com 2003-01-18 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, my Hebrew was from the Crucifixion,

But the Leviticus thing was:

"Any man who lieth with an animal as he does a woman should be put to death."

Something to put the fear of God into those mid-westers.

Although Friends of Dorothy come in for some similar stick a couple of lines later.
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