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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Gg: Godsmacked
Godsmack is a hard rock/metal/whatever band. They're pretty much awesome.
God Smack is a name of an Alice In Chains song. The band did NOT take their name from AIC. They're an influence, but no, Godsmack is not named after the song.
You wanna know what Godsmack really means? Basically Karma. Sully Erna, the vocalist, came up with it when he was making fun of Tommy Stewart (former drummer, played on the self-titled debut and Awake) who had a cold sore on his lip. Later, Sully had a cold sore on HIS lip. He said it was a "godsmack."
Before that, they were called The Scam.
person1- godsmack is whacked, who do they think they are ripping off Alice in Chains
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Aa: antinomianism
n.
1. Theology The doctrine or belief that the Gospel frees Christians from required obedience to any law, whether scriptural, civil, or moral, and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace.
2. The belief that moral laws are relative in meaning and application as opposed to fixed or universal.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Zz: Zealots
Monday, April 27, 2009
Aa: Acuity
n.
Acuteness of vision or perception; keenness.
[Middle English acuite, from Old French, ultimately from Latin actus, sharp; see acute.]
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Ll - LMAO Two Step
A slightly derogatory, humourous name for metalcore, particularly simple metalcore with too many 1 open chord breakdowns.
LMAO is an obvious reference to the internet acronym for Laughing My Ass Off and 2-step is both a dance seen at hardcore shows (which looks like an un-co version of skanking) and the section of a hardcore song which encourages such dancing. Putting the two words together implies that 2-step is laughable.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
Qq: QinA-Jealousy
Jealousy in Proverbs 27:4 uses the Hebrew Word Qina which also means Zeal; excessive fervor to do something or to accomplish something which can destroy others when out of whack. Too much energy destroys the Good in us and creates something diabolical.
Proverbs 27:4 (The Message)4 We're blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Aa: Ahistorical Soteriology
Ahistorical
adj. Unconcerned with or unrelated to history, historical development, or tradition:
(Together)Ahistorical Soteriology: Timeless theology of salvation as effected by Jesus.
For example, Pool criticizes the document for its neglect of pneumatological concerns, its ahistorical soteriology, and its Calvinistic hamartiology.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Pp: pneumatological
For example, Pool criticizes the document for its neglect of pneumatological concerns, its ahistorical soteriology, and its Calvinistic hamartiology.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Hh, hamartiology
-Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
For example, Pool criticizes the document for its neglect of pneumatological concerns, its ahistorical soteriology, and its Calvinistic hamartiology.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Ee: Ecclesiology
They warn against the dangers of a "bowling alone" ecclesiology common in many American churches, offering instead a range of models and typologies that avoid either a single "one size fits all" solution or a "choose your own" ecclesiology.
Gg: Gosh
Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006
"They plumb e't all the bacon and prunes and sugar and dog-food," Elijah reported, "and gosh darn my buttons, if they didn't gnaw open the sacks and scatter the flour and beans and rice from Dan to Beersheba.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Qq: Quaff
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee -- by these angels he hath sent thee Respite -- respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost LenorePoems by Poe, Edgar Allan
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Hh: Het Up
Meaning: Agitated.
Origin
Het is a shortened form of heated and has been used that way since the 14th century. That simple sense of het up as heated up is first recorded in the US newspaper The Freeborn County Standard, July 1884:
"Set it right down here by the fire Susan, so 't'll get het up before you knead it into loaves."
The first record I can find of someone using het up to mean agitated is in a work by the American physician S. W. Mitchell in 1886:
"I don't het up easy."
Friday, April 17, 2009
Jj: Jarts
Lawn darts
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Lawn darts (also called Jarts or yard darts) is a lawn game for two players or teams. A lawn dart set usually includes four large darts and two targets. The game play and objective are similar to both horseshoes and darts. The darts are similar to the ancient Roman plumbata. They are typically 12 inches (30 cm) long with a weighted metal or plastic tip on one end and three plastic fins on a rod at the other end. The darts are intended to be tossed underhand toward a horizontal ground target, where the weighted end hits first and sticks into the ground. The target is typically a plastic ring, and landing anywhere within the ring scores a point.
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Rules of Lawn Darts
There are a number of variations of lawn darts, including Traditional and Handly Cup Style. Either variation can be played one-on-one or in teams of two. In the team version the players stand with one member from each team at each end (when throwing, they should be sure to stand well back when the other side is throwing) and toss the darts to a target about 50 feet (15.25 m) away (with variation based on the players' skill and the venue in which the game is being played).
In Traditional Lawn Darts, points are scored when a dart lands in the target area. Usually if a player from each team lands a dart in the target, the scores cancel each other (so if Team A got 2 darts into the target, and Team B got 1 in, Team A would get 1 point and Team B would get 0). Also, some versions of Lawn darts include a smaller "bulls-eye" ring for additional points.
In Handly Cup Style Lawn Darts, scores are based on darts in the ring plus darts closer to the ring than any of the opposing team's darts. Darts landing inside the ring, or "ringers", are worth 3 points each, and can be canceled by an opponent also throwing a dart into the ring. Additionally, any dart that is closer to the ring (but outside) than any other dart by the opposing team is worth one point. This means that if neither team managed to place a dart into the ring, but Team A had two darts closer than any of Team B's darts, Team A would score 2 points. If Team A had one dart in the ring, and one dart closer than any of Team B's darts, they would score 4 points. If both teams have darts in the ring it is impossible for a dart outside the ring to score any points (as it is farther from the ring than the opposing team's dart that is inside). If Team A and Team B each had a dart inside the ring, and Team A also had two darts outside the ring but closer to the ring than any of Team B's other darts, neither team would score any points for that round. Handly Cup Style matches typically are played in teams of two, with the pairs alternating, until one teams total score is 21 or more. In addition, for a point to count the dart must stick into the ground.
- A variation is "nuclear lawn darts": old maps are used as targets.
Banned from sale in the U.S. and Canada
Image from U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission notice
On December 19, 1988, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned lawn darts from sale in the United States.[1] Shortly after, in 1989, they were also banned in Canada.[2] Lawn darts, used in an outdoor game, have been responsible for the deaths of three children.[1]
Safety lawn darts can be found in a few stores around the United States. [3]
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Dd: doppelgänger
doppelgänger
(German ‘double-goer’) apparition of a living person, a person's double, or a guardian spirit. The German composer and writer E T A Hoffman wrote a short story called ‘Die Doppelgänger’ in 1821. English novelist Charles Williams (1886–1945) used the idea to great effect in his novel Descent into Hell (1937).
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Bb: Balletic
Adj. characteristic of or resembling or suitable for ballet
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.
Spiky nosegays of lighting fixtures sprouted from the floor, creating a futuristic garden where barefooted Parker Lutz, in a beige unitard with puffy sleeves, performed brief balletic variations to music by Mike Iveson, Bert Janusch, and, most startlingly, given Michelson's experimental pedigree, Leo Delibes (large chunks of the score for Sylvia).
Sarah Michelson by Zimmer, Elizabeth / Dance Magazine
Monday, April 13, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Oo: Onanistic
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Aa: Akathartos
Akathartos:
- not cleansed, unclean
- in a ceremonial sense: that which must be abstained from according to the levitical law
- in a moral sense: unclean in thought and life
Friday, April 10, 2009
Ff: framboise
Noun | 1. | framboise - the common European raspberry; fruit red or orange red raspberry - any of several raspberries bearing red fruit |
POP ART RASPBERRY (Framboise) ICEBOX CAKE
27 chocolate wafer cookies
2 ounces bittersweet bittersweet, name for two unrelated plants, belonging to different families, both fall-fruiting woody vines sometimes cultivated for their decorative scarlet berries. chocolate, melted and slightly cooled
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
3 tablespoons cold water
1 (12-ounce) bag frozen raspberries
3/4 cup sugar
2 cups heavy whipping cream, chilled
2 tablespoons framboise (raspberry liqueur)
1 teaspoon vanilla
Line a 9 1/2x4x3-inch loaf pan with plastic wrap, making sure plastic wrap is tucked into all corners and there is at least 1 inch overhanging top of pan on all sides. Working with one cookie at a time, spread the more rounded side of 9 wafer cookies with a thin layer of melted chocolate and place 3 of them, chocolate side down, on the bottom of pan. Place another 3 cookies against each long side of the pan, chocolate-coated sides facing the pan. Place pan in the freezer.
Sprinkle gelatin over cold water in a small bowl and let soften 2 minutes.
Combine raspberries and sugar in a medium heavy saucepan and cook over medium-low heat, stirring a few times, until sugar dissolves and mixture is warm to touch. Stir in gelatin mixture. Let cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally.
Combine cream, framboise and vanilla in large bowl and, using an electric mixer, whip until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in cooled raspberry mixture, taking care not to deflate (file format, compression) deflate - A compression standard derived from LZ77; it is reportedly used in zip, gzip, PKZIP, and png, among others.
Unlike LZW, deflate compression does not use patented compression algorithms. cream.
Remove pan from freezer. Pour all but 1/4 of mousse into pan. Smooth top with a rubber spatula spatula /spat·u·la/ (spach´u-lah) [L.]
1. a wide, flat, blunt, usually flexible instrument of little thickness, used for spreading material on a smooth surface.
2. a spatulate structure. . Insert remaining 18 cookies into mousse, arranging them vertically in three rows of six so they are lined up with chocolate wafers on sides of pan. Spread remaining mousse over wafers and smooth with spatula. The pan should be full to the top. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze until completely set, at least overnight and up to 1 week.
To unmold un·mold
tr.v. un·mold·ed, un·mold·ing, un·molds
To remove from a mold: unmold a lemon mousse. , gently tug plastic wrap that lines pan to loosen cake. Place a serving platter over pan and turn over. Gently tap to release. Carefully peel plastic wrap from the cake. Cut into slices and serve immediately. Makes 6 servings.
From ``Icebox Desserts,'' by Lauren Chattman.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Pp: plenoxia
Law of diminishing returns which turns to greed and need for more and more or
"the insatiable desire to have what rightfully belongs to others"
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Pp: Porneuo
Ss: Shrek's Law
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tt: Traipsed
Monday, April 6, 2009
Ss: Swain
n.
1. A country lad, especially a young shepherd.
2. A beau.
[Middle English, young man, servant, from Old Norse sveinn; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Pp: Pneumatology
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Rr: Rue
v. rued, ru·ing, rues
v.tr.
To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow for.
v.intr.
To feel regret, remorse, or sorrow.
n.
Sorrow; regret: "To their rue, the Social Democrats have to acknowledge that the Conservative-Liberal coalition has captured the center where elections are won" Elizabeth Pond.
[Middle English ruen, from Old English hrowan, to affect with grief, and hrowian, to repent.]
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Rr: Rubicon
Ancient name of the small river flowing into the Adriatic that, under the Roman Republic, marked the boundary between Italy proper and Cisalpine Gaul. When Caesar led his army across it 49 BC, he therefore declared war on the Republic; hence to ‘cross the Rubicon’ means to take an irrevocable step.
The Rubicon is believed to be the present-day Fiumicino, which flows into the Adriatic just north of Rimini.
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Ee: Epitome
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Pp: Pneumatology
is the study of spiritual beings and phenomena, especially the interactions between humans and God. Pneuma (πνευμα) is Greek for "breath", which metaphorically describes a non-material being or influence. World Book Dictionary defines pneumatology as "1. Theology the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. 2. The doctrine of spirits or spiritual beings, in the 1600s considered a branch of metaphysics. 3. pneumatics. 4. Obsolete word for psychology."
In Christian theology pneumatology refers to the study of the Holy Spirit. In mainstream Christian doctrine, the Holy Spirit is the third person of God in the Trinity. Unitarian forms of Christianity believe that the Holy Spirit is personal, although holding that it may, in some sense, influence people. In the Gospel of John, pneuma is linked to re-birth in water and spirit, which has been suggested to be baptism.
"The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome."[1]
[1] Hamlet, Act I, scene 1, lines 115-116
And, therefore, their all hitting upon this is a striking fact in pneumatology, which we recommend to the attention of spiritual media generally.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
PP: Paracletos
From the Koine Greek word παράκλητος (Parakletos) (Strong's G3875) meaning "one who consoles - a comforter" or "one who intercedes on our behalf - an advocate". It may reflect Hebrew: מְנַחֵם mənaḥḥēm "comforter". According to Walter Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature: "the technical meaning 'lawyer', 'attorney' is rare." The word appears a few times in the New Testament and, as a title for the Holy Spirit, is used in Christian Pneumatology and Trinitarian
Classic Literature Reference
They removed his body to the Paraclete afterward, and when Heloise died, twenty years later, they buried her with him, in accordance with her last wish.The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark