BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 May 11 - 05:00 PM

Eliza ~~ Absolutely. Precisely so: indeed, the etymology of 'rapture' in the present-day sense is exactly the same: that which seizes one's mind. All from Latin rapere, to seize & carry away. So that, etymologically, when you experience rapture, you are being raped, & of course vice versa: what will the feminists make of that, eh!?

Rapturous regards

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 May 11 - 06:13 PM

Rapturous thanks, Michael! So experiencing Rapture would not necessarily be a pleasure, merely the sensation of being grabbed and made off with? Regarding the etymological link with 'rape', I'm sure the Feminists (of whom I am not one) would definitely be 'unrapt'!
Kindest regards, Eliza

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 May 11 - 06:26 PM

'Feminists (of whom I am not one)" Guest/Eliza

Curious. Question: What does being a feminist mean to you?

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: gnu
Date: 22 May 11 - 06:29 PM

sIx... thanks for the link... that was Rapturing!. Enjoyed it immensely.

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: GUEST,girls gone winfield
Date: 22 May 11 - 06:36 PM

did you say you need a girls gone winfield sticker from winfield?

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 22 May 11 - 07:45 PM

No doubt another math mistake!

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: gnu
Date: 22 May 11 - 07:49 PM

I could understand girls gone Wingfield. He's quite a guy.

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: michaelr
Date: 22 May 11 - 09:28 PM

Is rapier related?

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 23 May 11 - 05:46 AM

Remember the sketch in Beyond the Fringe ? "Will the mountains be laid low brother?" "No, that's why we're up here, you fool."
Then when the world doesn't end. Long pause and: "Oh, well, same time tomorrow then, lads."
(I paraphrase from memory)

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 23 May 11 - 07:15 AM

When I heard about the Rapture for some reason Debbie Harry popped into my mind, don't know why.

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: gnu
Date: 23 May 11 - 02:12 PM

Debbie Harry? She could rapture me... as many times as she cared to.

Subject: RE: BS: The World Hasn't Ended Here
From: olddude
Date: 23 May 11 - 10:08 PM

It ended, you are now just thinking that it hasn't yup
kinda like how JR came back from the dead in the show Dallas ...

it is all over, you folks just can accept it ... talk about stubborn wow, admit it .. your dead ...

boy mudcatters are some kind of tough, they don't even know it when they passed away LOL

:-)