What Are You Listening To?

[Aggie]

Just finished enduring the mp3 edition of the Koran.
I often felt the urge to shout: You have told that same story now for the umpteenth time and the part about the infidels and the companions and the lies is not new either for it comes up at least twice in each and every chapter. Do you think your audience has Alzheimer or do you suffer from it yourself? Cut and paste ad nauseam does not great literature make!

I'm reading it at the moment, but haven't got quite far enough to grasp the full scope of the repetition (although enough to see where you're coming from).  I suppose it's written for men and women, so repetition might be necessary  - the translation I'm reading says that when making business deals (loans, I think), one can have either two men as witnesses, or one man and two women, in case one of the women forgets the details.

I get the impression it's a rather historical document, meant to deal with some very specific historical events, moreso than the Gospels are.  Even the OT seems more of a record of oral traditions / historical events (you decide ) than being reactionary to the goings-on of the day.

[Swatopluk]

In places it is so 'problem of the day'-ish that annotations speculate what some incomprehensible verses mean or simply state that the context is unkown (sometimes even to Arabian commenters that lived not too long after the events). But there are similar things in Shakespeare's works.
Will people in 500 years understand Dubya jokes?

[Aggie]

Dubya jokes are not explicitly stated to be the last officially-approved commentary on the American presidency.

[Swatopluk]

Well, there are some who think differently
On the other hand, it's difficult to take seriously how some Christians try to find eternal meaning in every verse of the Bible, even if it is Saint Paul asking that someone forward him his coat he forgot during his last visit.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

He is obviously asking for the coat in a metaphorical way. 

[Swatopluk]

Premonitions of St.Martin, I presume.
Btw (wrong thread), did you know that the word chapel (German: Kapelle, latin: capella) is derived from latin capa (=coat, cape) and was originally the small church were the divided cape of St.Martin was worshipped?
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Icelandic vocabulary

[Lindorm]

He is obviously asking for the coat in a metaphorical way. 

Or, to quote the now sadly defunct "Bloom County":

"Hey. let's rope us some fillies! But of course, I only mean that in the strict biblical sense!"

[Swatopluk]

Do I/you know her? (ditto)

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Musical Sunday Riddle on the radio

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

A tenor strugling to sing Calaf on Turandot. The one we had before got sick and the replacement isn't half as good.

[Swatopluk]

Nessun dorma is already torture (due to overexposure even before Potts) even when sung properly.

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Soundtracks to Sky Capatain and the World of Tomorrow, Serenity, and Firefly

[Aggie]

even if it is Saint Paul asking that someone forward him his coat he forgot during his last visit.

Is this a jest or is it really in one of the letters?  I want to have a look, if so.

[Swatopluk]

No joke, it's in one of the letters but I don't remember in which one.
There are personal things in several letters (often requests to greet something from him).
A few remarks don't rhyme with official theology and/or are rather ambiguous.
E.g. he greets a female leader of a congregation and calls her great among the apostles (Hieronymous subtly changed the name, so it became male in the Vulgata)
Or he complains that some take offence if he travels with his wife as all the other apostles, esp. Petrus (first pope!) do (Hieronymous changed 'wife' to 'woman' in the second and 'female servant' in the third Vulgata edition)
And then there is that verse that, if taken literally, says that he sired a son while in prison.

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Hans Jonas (important German philosopher)

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Idle chat in the camerino. 40 minutes to the start of the show...

[Swatopluk]

I found the Icelandic soundtracks for the stage plays and the TV series of Lazytown on the net.
Btw, the Icelandic DVD has arrived by now. Unfortunately no subtitles at all. I did not expect English ones but HOH in Icelandic would have been nice due to the huge differences between spelling and pronounciation.

[Aggie]

Q played a Lazytown song for you on his Pirate Radio show last week.