Tattoos

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Way back, when TGRR was just a little girl, he was at Fort Drum, and was thinking of getting a tattoo of the 10th Mn patch on his left shoulder, like many people were.

Then his squadmate went, and they spelled "Mountain" wrong on the tab...they forgot the first "n", and my friend was in the "Moutain" division. 

TGRR decided he didn't really need a tattoo, after all.

[hooplala]

OFUK

I drew a tattoo for my wife of a tiny stylized elephant, and she wanted the word "LAW" under it, so I also drew up something which looked sort of like Times, just to give the artist the idea... he almost went ahead and drew my lettering which was SLOPPY... luckily I noticed just in time. 

[Cain]

Sappho doesn't EVER get enough praise...

Her lyrical work is amazing, but do to languages rapidly evolving at the time and the methods of archiving literary works, it sucks that nearly everything she had written is lost. Plus, when people bring up Sappho, it's like, you get the whole, "Oh the Lesbian feminist one?" Well yeah, she WAS Lesbian, as in, from the island of Lesbos, and so what if she did have women lovers? That was commonplace back then, and even so, no one knows for sure, as she could have been alluding to many things with her writing style.

Yeah, it truly sucks.  I remember being told the theory she was likely a priestess of Aphrodite, and so the poems were devoted to ideas of love, lust and beauty in all its forms.  I'm not certain if this is anything more than conjecture though.

[Suu]

She doesn't LOOK like a Canuck hater...

Trust me. Girl shits more hate than Roger at times. It's impressive.

Sappho doesn't EVER get enough praise...

Her lyrical work is amazing, but do to languages rapidly evolving at the time and the methods of archiving literary works, it sucks that nearly everything she had written is lost. Plus, when people bring up Sappho, it's like, you get the whole, "Oh the Lesbian feminist one?" Well yeah, she WAS Lesbian, as in, from the island of Lesbos, and so what if she did have women lovers? That was commonplace back then, and even so, no one knows for sure, as she could have been alluding to many things with her writing style.

Yeah, it truly sucks.  I remember being told the theory she was likely a priestess of Aphrodite, and so the poems were devoted to ideas of love, lust and beauty in all its forms.  I'm not certain if this is anything more than conjecture though.

Fragment 1 IS a Hymn to Aphrodite. It wouldn't surprise me. Of course Sappho is often quoted on mentioning a daughter and husband in some of her works as well. Again...common for a woman still, especially a devotee to Aphrodite to love everything anyway. She was like the feminine version of Socrates, who was enamored with the strength of men and male form.

[Cain]

It certainly seems to fit as an explanation.  I'm willing to go along with it.

[Suu]

Don't tell the Feminazis that though. They'll tell you that you are DOWNRIGHT WRONG because she was the first HARDCORE lesbian erotica writer and that the term LESBIAN was coined BECAUSE of Sappho. RAWR!

We had one in my Greek class. I think most of us wanted to strangle her.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Don't tell the Feminazis that though. They'll tell you that you are DOWNRIGHT WRONG because she was the first HARDCORE lesbian erotica writer and that the term LESBIAN was coined BECAUSE of Sappho. RAWR!

We had one in my Greek class. I think most of us wanted to strangle her.

Why?

Fanatics are funny.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

She doesn't LOOK like a Canuck hater...

Trust me. Girl shits more hate than Roger at times. It's impressive.

Possible, but I doubt it.

[Cain]

Don't tell the Feminazis that though. They'll tell you that you are DOWNRIGHT WRONG because she was the first HARDCORE lesbian erotica writer and that the term LESBIAN was coined BECAUSE of Sappho. RAWR!

We had one in my Greek class. I think most of us wanted to strangle her.

Ours was filled with upper class twits, because Classics is one of those things one is expected to know about, dontcherknow?

I blame British imperial ambitions entirely on an overemphasis on the Illiad and Roman history.

[Suu]

Trufax: There's better shit to read than the Iliad, and the Aeneid is obviously not one of them. 

[hooplala]

Hey.  I like the Illiad.

[Jenne]

I like The Illiad, too...but then I read Plutarch in jr. high.

[Suu]

Hey.  I like the Illiad.

I do too. But what Cain is saying that it's not something to base your entire country's strategy on. The Trojan Horse can only work so many times before your foot is shot off.

[hooplala]

Well, yeah . . . thats why they had the gods.

[Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ]

i just read the aeneid (and iliad and odyssey) ...i didnt think it was bad