Competition Results

[Griffin NoName]

In the latest competition, posting piral the most often, Griffin NoName The Watson of Sherlock came first with 4, and Swatopluk in second place with 3.

[Aggie]

What's a pirus? 

[beagle]

It could be:

The first virus wriiten in php.
A Toyota whose name badge failed QC.
A severely dyslexic Greek city or mythological figure.
A particularly virulent small pirate.

...

[Griffin NoName]

Theoretically this can be explained as "using a small part which when added to other part(s) makes up a whole. "

Griffin (2007) The Griffin Explanatory Manual London, The Griffin Writings in Cyberspace Press

[Griffin NoName]

Theoretically this can be explained as "using a small part which when added to other part(s) makes up a whole. "

Griffin (2007) The Griffin Explanatory Manual London, The Griffin Writings in Cyberspace Press

Don't tell me to get a life. I have one. Writing essays. 

[Swatopluk]

What about a vamless pire?

[Aggie]

An alcubus perhaps, that drains from your liquor cabinet while you're sleeping?

[Swatopluk]

A [insert prefix]cubus is into fornication not substance abuse .*
On the other hand Al Cubus sounds like a bizarre cartoon character (Did Picasso work for Marvel too?)

*good joke anyway!

[Griffin NoName]

What about a vamless pire?

To get a life? A vampless pire may be the stairway to heaven for certain people who need cremation after sinning with vamps, but I think I'll stick to essay writing for now.

[Aggie]

A [insert prefix]cubus is into fornication not substance abuse .*
On the other hand Al Cubus sounds like a bizarre cartoon character (Did Picasso work for Marvel too?)

*good joke anyway!

Perhaps you just haven't hit the bottle hard enough, Swato - substance abuse is well capable of getting one pretty f*@#'d up (not in reference to waking up with strangers, either).

succubus
1387, alteration (after incubus) of L.L. succuba "strumpet," applied to a fiend in female form having intercourse with men in their sleep, from succubare "to lie under," from sub- "under" + cubare "to lie down" (see cubicle).

So an alcubus should therefore be the evil spirit that causes one to pass out from drinking too much.
I know a number of spirits that will do this.... 


EDIT: Just realized that the etymological reasoning there is flawed.  Ah - I still like it.

[Swatopluk]

I always found it interesting that the devil allegedly obeys Catholic rules on coital positions (man on top, woman below). But he has always been a traditionalist.

[Aggie]

All the better to lure in Catholics, I suppose.  Those who are fond of other positions are obviously already under his influence.

Or perhaps these rules were simply created to increase entertainment value in the confessional?

[Swatopluk]

No jokes on that. Deviation from the divine geometry of knowing your spouse even once could get you ten years of bread and water only and several thousand Hail Mary-s at certain times. Just punishment for sinning in a way that not even the devil would dare. There is a lot of literature for priests how to get all the sexual sins out in confession without giving people ideas.
And for entertainment in the confessional, at times a woman was considered frivolous for going to the confession unarmed (due to extreme rape rates involving priests).

[beagle]

There is a lot of literature for priests how to get all the sexual sins out in confession without giving people ideas.

Let me guess, "The Joy of Sects" ?

[Kiyoodle the Gambrinous]

An alcubus perhaps, that drains from your liquor cabinet while you're sleeping?

Does that make me an alcubus?