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Discussion Groups / English Usage / March 2010Family see Jesus image in Marmite
This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm Why does the Marmite connection make it more noticeable than if had been, say, raspberry jam?  SignatureMike Page Google me at port.ac.uk if you need to send an email. > This might count as just about on topic because of the food > connection. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm > > Why does the Marmite connection make it more noticeable than if had > been, say, raspberry jam? That is obviously Nefertiti. The Marmite connection is reminiscent of the chapter of the Chuang-Tsu (Zhuangzi), in which a disciple questions the sage closely and in a reductionist-scientific manner about the Tao (Dao). I have it in Thomas Merton's lovely translation of selected passages but I can't find the book, and so summarise: "Is it in me, is it in that pig, is there anything else it is in?" Yes, yes, and yes: it is in that dogturd." "At this," it says here, "the student was silent for a space." And well he might be. The Lord vouchsafeth to spread his handmaiden yea even upon the humblest and the most icky. > This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm > Why does the Marmite connection make it more noticeable than if had > been, say, raspberry jam? because, since they are eating marmite, you already know there is something fundamentally (ha ha) wrong with them. I mean, nromal people eat Strawberry jam. SignatureNO. I CANNOT BE BIDDEN. I CANNOT BE FORCED. I WILL DO ONLY THAT WHICH I KNOW TO BE RIGHT. --Mort > This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm > > Why does the Marmite connection make it more noticeable than if had been, > say, raspberry jam? it looks more like Frank Zappa. >> This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm >> >> Why does the Marmite connection make it more noticeable than if had been, >> say, raspberry jam? > it looks more like Frank Zappa. Ooo, spoooooky! It does look like Frank! SignatureYes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate covered candies and, y'know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don't care, because I do believe in it. Bottom line: it's couples who are truly right for each other that wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don't let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time. If it's right, and they're real lucky, one of them will say something. Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be. --Small Gods >This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm > >Why does the Marmite connection make it more noticeable than if had >been, say, raspberry jam? It's a clear message. The Christ has become bored of being transubstantiated as bread and wine. He now wishes to be Marmite. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) On Mar 9, 9:15 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <m...@peterduncanson.net> wrote: > >This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > It's a clear message. The Christ has become bored of being > transubstantiated as bread and wine. He now wishes to be Marmite. But the real problem lies in the recognition. A chap with a beard and an ancient eastern visage might just as easily be Mahomet or Moses. It's not as if we have His original driver's licence application photo, countersigned by a JP (Judaean Prefect). The Turin Shroud is of less than persuasive evidential value, besides being Italian, by Papal Fiat. -- franzi > On Mar 9, 9:15 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <m...@peterduncanson.net> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >> It's a clear message. The Christ has become bored of being >> transubstantiated as bread and wine. He now wishes to be Marmite. I don't know what that's going to do to attendance at communion. > But the real problem lies in the recognition. A chap with a beard and > an ancient eastern visage might just as easily be Mahomet or Moses. > It's not as if we have His original driver's licence application > photo, countersigned by a JP (Judaean Prefect). The Turin Shroud is of > less than persuasive evidential value, besides being Italian, by Papal > Fiat. You'd think he'd drive something posher. A Lancia maybe. SignatureMike Page Google me at port.ac.uk if you need to send an email. > > On Mar 9, 9:15 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <m...@peterduncanson.net> > > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > You'd think he'd drive something posher. A Lancia maybe. I thought I read that the Lancia was the Roman soldier in the Calvary, but I'm not sure that the Romans ate boiled eggs as we do, with Marmite soldiers. A Lancia may be posher, but is that consonant with kosher? -- franzi >>>>> This might count as just about on topic because of the food >>>>> connection. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > but I'm not sure that the Romans ate boiled eggs as we do, with > Marmite soldiers. That would be a heavy cross to bear. > A Lancia may be posher, but is that consonant with kosher? I hear the sound of silence ... SignatureSkitt (AmE) with a cavalier demeanor > > > On Mar 9, 9:15 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" > > > <m...@peterduncanson.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > A Lancia may be posher, but is that consonant with kosher? Posher kosher nosher? -- >>> On Mar 9, 9:15 pm, "Peter Duncanson (BrE)" <m...@peterduncanson.net> >>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > A Lancia may be posher, but is that consonant with kosher? A Lancia would be kosher only if the end of its exhaust pipe had been snipped off. SignatureLaura (emulate St. George for email) On Mar 9, 11:49 pm, franzi <et.in.arcadia.fra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > But the real problem lies in the recognition. A chap with a beard and > an ancient eastern visage might just as easily be Mahomet or Moses. > It's not as if we have His original driver's licence application > photo, countersigned by a JP (Judaean Prefect). The Turin Shroud is of > less than persuasive evidential value, besides being Italian, by Papal > Fiat. Amazing how they reconfigure those things with the open top and all. S in B > On Mar 9, 11:49 pm, franzi<et.in.arcadia.fra...@googlemail.com> > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Amazing how they reconfigure those things with the open top and all. How about Jesus in a frying pan? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7424976/Image-of-Jesus-a ppears-in-a-frying-pan.html http://tinyurl.com/y8kdf7j SignatureDavid >> On Mar 9, 11:49 pm, franzi<et.in.arcadia.fra...@googlemail.com> >> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > http://tinyurl.com/y8kdf7j That's clearly Albrecht Dürer. SignatureJames >>> On Mar 9, 11:49 pm, franzi<et.in.arcadia.fra...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > That's clearly Albrecht Dürer. Aged 22 and living in Salford? Oh, you mean the image. You could be right, although Dürer may have been channeling Jesus when he painted that self portrait. SignatureDavid [...] > You could be right, although Dürer may have been channeling > Jesus when he painted that self portrait. ObAUE: ... self-portrait. Obligatory hyphen. Signature~~~ Reinhold {Rey} Aman ~~~ >>This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >It's a clear message. The Christ has become bored of being >transubstantiated as bread and wine. He now wishes to be Marmite. One the general matter of Christ and substance there were the Monophysites, now there are the Marmites. I prophesy a schism leading to the Vegemites. SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) BrE filted: >>>This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. >>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Monophysites, now there are the Marmites. I prophesy a schism leading to >the Vegemites. Shirley this report is rejected by the Christian authorities...Marmite is neither meat nor vegetable, but fungus...as such, it's cheek-by-jowl with decay and corruption, making it an unfit association for anything holy....r Signature"Oy! A cat made of lead cannot fly." - Mark Brader declaims a basic scientific principle > BrE filted: > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > neither meat nor vegetable, but fungus...as such, it's cheek-by-jowl with decay > and corruption, making it an unfit association for anything holy....r Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth, rust and Marmite doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal. -- franzi > This might count as just about on topic because of the food > connection. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm > > Why does the Marmite connection make it more noticeable than if had > been, say, raspberry jam? The resemblance is astonishing. Here also is Jesus' first television appearance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC0nRLvQXuE (For some inexplicable reason, the middle part of the clip also shows a flock of emus trying to kick a dunny down.) SignatureRegards John for mail: my initials plus a u e at tpg dot com dot au Mike Page <mikeorang@ntlworld.com>: >This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. > >http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8071865.stm AAMOI how accurately does anyone alive today know what Jesus actually looked like? SignatureMike Barnes Cheshire, England > Mike Page <mikeorang@ntlworld.com>: >>This might count as just about on topic because of the food connection. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > AAMOI how accurately does anyone alive today know what Jesus actually > looked like? That's easy. Just look inside the Marmite jar. SignatureLes (BrE) > AAMOI how accurately does anyone alive today know what Jesus actually > looked like? A few years ago someone tried to recreate the appearance of a typical Gallilean man of the first century. He used some pseudoscientific method involving DNA or something. As I recall, the result looked something like a Mexican motorcycle gang member. Oh yes, it Googles right up: http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013151.html SignatureJohn Varela > Mike Page <mikeorang@ntlworld.com>: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > AAMOI how accurately does anyone alive today know what Jesus > actually looked like? We know what Nefertiti looked like. |
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