summon the she-bears

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Dentist tomorrow, and as such, I recite the familiar mantra of "please please please don't let me need any new fillings". I wonder if one could argue that just as there are no atheists in foxholes, neither are there any in dentists' chairs? (I know I haven't needed any for a couple of years. That makes no difference to anything at all.)

In the middle of translating a chunk of Scales, about magical beings, with rough notes on personalities and suggested powers. I will merely note that lamias get more fun than unicorns, and that the proximity of one to the other is because the French for unicorn is "licorne".

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17: And Ezeliah said unto Benshazzar, Lo, for the Fight Scene
between Neo and all Those Agents was really Kick-Ass.
18: And the Lord looked down upon Ezeliah and Benshazzar,
and He said, Cease! for I have not seen this Movie yet, thou
Ass-hats.
19: But the two continued to speak of the Movie, but in hushed tones.
20: And the Lord was displeased, for He who is Creator could
hear their every Tone, and summoned two She-bears to
rend them and destroy them, that he might not hear
Spoilers for the Movie.
-- EDG

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[edg.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. :)

[edg.livejournal.com]

And further, as I was originally only being slightly bemused to find myself quoted...

Yes. Good luck with the dentist tomorrow; my thoughts will be with you.

Amusingly, the French ("licorne") looks like it's a borrow from Italian, although as I don't actually know either language I can't be sure. (Having now looked it up, Italian "unicorn" is, predictably, unicorno - but "horn" is corno.)

Stray thought

[(Anonymous)]

Can a Mother's tender care...
-mjj

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[incandescens]

Mm? (I fail to catch . . .)

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[(Anonymous)]

Then you were *not* brought up with a copy of Verse and Worse handy on the shelf as I feared you were. 'Can a Mother's tender care/ Cease towards the child she-bear.' Misheard hymns, as eg Gladly the cross-eye'd bear. Mondegreens, but early ones.
-mjj

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[incandescens]

Aha. I shall add that to my memory of intriguing tags. (Gladly my cross-eyed bear, I know, along with take his wife and child and flea into Egypt . . .)

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[(Anonymous)]

Round John Virgin, mother and child...
-mjj

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[incandescens]

Most highly flavoured lolly, gloria ...

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[(Anonymous)]

Mm? (And there you have *me.*)
-mjj

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[incandescens]

As sung in parody to the chorus of "The Angel Gabriel from heaven came" (Most highly favoured lady, gloria!) -- though deliberate parody rather than accidental childish mispronounciation, so perhaps not quite in the same category as the others above.

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[(Anonymous)]

(nods) While shepherds washed their socks by night.
-mjj

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[niihakase.livejournal.com]

At least when it was described in one of the Beverly Cleary books I realized I wasn't the only child who heard "by the dawnser's lee light" in "The Star Spangled Banner" and wondered what a dawnser was. Just like the character in the book, I figured a "dawnser" was some sort of huge lamp and lee meant "very bright".

koji

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[incandescens]

Ah, the benefits of a good imagination!

[rvdammit.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the dentist. I get to go play play with an odontist on Friday because of either a perferation (unlikely) or unusual tooth anatomy.