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Discussions in my First-Year Seminar! What's a gal to do? Too lazy to research the topic, but...
Topic #1 was Gay Marriage Topic #2 was MP3 downloading!
I was the most knowledgeable person on both topics, because of lurking on Hatrack discussion threads!! I know all sides of each issue, each main argument, and multiple refutations of each!
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Whew... Glad I read your explanation. From the title, I was afraid you were saying Hatrack made you look smart because the rest of us were so...
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Today in my East Asian Imperialism class, the teacher asked who knew who Onan was...
And I was the only one who did. All because of Hatrack. I thought I'd bump this thread to thank you. I luvs you guys!!
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Many people have mentioned, (in various threads since I've joined) that some threads are an "onanism" and I've never had the guts to ask what it meant..
Guess this gives me something to research on the web the rest of the day.
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I knew I was missing the Holy Handpaddle of Antioch from the Mafia Props inventory! Celia, when you're done with it, would you mind putting it back in its case in Bin 35A?
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He was Judah's younger son, smote for refusing to raise up seed unto his brother. Instead he spilled his seed. Hence his name has been incorporated into a metaphor for typing with one hand.
Though I'll risk being contraversial and remark that obviously everyone who does that doesn't get smote. But Judah's family was supposed to bring forth some important figures in Jewish history. David and Solomon at least. And even more important ones in Christianity. So I think he was smote more for the not propogating and less for a sin he could have repented of. Eh, I don't mean contraversial. I mean stuffy. Eh, I don't know what I mean.
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Yeah, AJ, it's one of those weird things. Like Lot's daughters, who also wind up in the lineage of David and eventually Jesus. Not to mention David and Bathsheba. Though their story is a little more sad.
When I was reading Sarah, I was wondering when the narrative about Lot was going to cut off. Posts: 11017 | Registered: Apr 2003
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When Europeans built empires in East Asia, they tried to impose their ideas about sexuality on the people. That's where "The missionary position" got it's rather odd seeming name.
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So I guess it isn't an exclusively Hatrack-coined phrase, huh?
(learn something new every day)
Farmgirl
::edit -- that's weird. When I use google as a hyperlink (above) it gives different result each time I click on it -- so what you see may not be what I saw!::
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I think it's hilarious that every time someone tries to "shock" the room with the latest news or starts into the newest "hot topic", I already know all about it and consider it old news due to Hatrack!
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quote: You know, I wonder if the teacher wondered WHY you knew about Onan.
I told him it was from an online forum.
quote: I certainly didn't think of it when Ryuko mentioned an East Asian Imperialism class!
Our teacher is very, very, VERY weird. We're reading a book on homosexuality in the East Asian colonies right now...
quote: I think it's hilarious that every time someone tries to "shock" the room with the latest news or starts into the newest "hot topic", I already know all about it and consider it old news due to Hatrack!
Yeah, although the novelty of that has worn off since I made friends with someone who's on Something Awful. Anything we get, they get hours/days/weeks/months earlier. So I have new news, and he always always knows already. Fortunately, this means I can talk to him about stuff without having to explain anything. Bonus. Posts: 4816 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Just tonight a friend was telling me about lego websites and he started telling me about a lego replica of an Escher drawing and I already knew all about it thanks to a Hatrack link. (Said friend is MUCH more web-savvy than I am, so I earned a few "cool" points )
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