2006 Update: Chief of the Roman pantheon, lord of lightning. Wisdom was born when he cracked his own skull.
Sometimes I'm almost to the ground, oh, yes, Lord" -Nobody Knows The Troubles I've Seen, traditional.
While Minka and Puppytoes are sorely disappointed in me, their own fault due to impossibly high or medium expectations, Shayna is treating me dandy at her Music Highway Project. More on this later (when it can be up all day,) but it's the work of a warm heart. Thanks, Shayna.
By Jove!!! I'm first! hehe, sorry Minka! Wah hahahaha! D
ReplyDeletethe post was up for two seconds!
ReplyDeleteI am not palying anymore!
*sulking*
Jove, a gas giant about a handful away from the sun. Reflective of that size matters even to Gods! Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system!
ReplyDeleteJove, n. Jove->God...The ability of mankind to give new names to old phantasies.
ReplyDeletehah...three in a row! How do you like them apples?!
... sounds suspiciously like "Jehovah" to me.
ReplyDeleteFF, typical cat.
ReplyDeleteMinka, I thought it was all in how you orbit.
Brian, like the deities on Mount Olympus we like our fun to be wholesome.
AP3, It sounds suspiciously like Java to me.
Oh my Jove. You folks get up so early just to be first on Doug's blog. *whimper, pout, whine*
ReplyDeleteI can't be too jove-e-al this early. Java does sound good.
Jove: 8 April 1897?
ReplyDeleteplnffuk: plappern funk
So, I decided that's it's not fair... I was so here before everyone... including Doug :( 6 am is way too early... Java is good then, it gets me through my 8am class. Anyway, my take on Jove (since I am in a Mythology class) he's a wimp... he decided to eat the mother of one of his kids because he was SCARED the kid would kill him... doesn't sound like king of the gods material to me.
ReplyDeleteIs that why whenever I get an idea a light bulb flashes over my head?
ReplyDeleteJOE, n. Coffee.
ReplyDeleteJOVE, n. Espresso.
And I don't even drink the stuff. Ground burnt beans. Yeck.
:)
when Romans'd stolen Zeus, they decided to call him Jove. he didn't mind.
ReplyDeleteBy Jove! I thought that was Underdog - Lord of Lightning.
ReplyDeleteby jove, O'C, you're a tea drinker, right?
ReplyDeleteDoug, jove is even more obscure than some of the words you used last week... at the rate my brain is working, i may have something for ya by Thursday.
I'd hate to be a poet with that word, it just won't rhyme with love or dove or move... my crack is on the wrong end, I guess.
ReplyDeleteBon Jov-ee
ReplyDeleteJove: a) sufferer of Excedrin headache #1. b) inventor of asprin
ReplyDeleteA high Spaniard trying to say the word Dove but well, thick accents that they have Jove is all you get!
ReplyDelete"Loook! Looook at de Jove fla-ying khigh in de es-ky!"
Sounds better I tell you! Especially when I do it BY JOVE!
eexcltn~ Exclaimed Tina! Who's Tina?
Ok, BoheMia out!
Journey of Virtual Enjoyment. J.O.V.E. Also see Doug's blog.
ReplyDeleteTLP, have a mug on me.
ReplyDeleteHaha, Puppybrose. Making fun of me is a great way to start.
Solace, we don't pick our Gods, they pick us. In Jove's defense, he was himself eaten by his scared father whom he ran off. I blame it on a bad childhoos.
Indie, when you started that site lightning went off around the world.
O Ceallaigh, a nice algae broth?
Ariel, I believe he said "Merely, callest me thou not late to dinner."
G, I loved Underdog.
Puppybrose, you're blaming the wrong guy. I just open the book. The page and line are chosen from on high.
Haha, Icy, maybe you can just sing then.
Joel, the minorest of deities.
Quilldancer, I prefer the old method by Haephestus' axe.
Miz B, you're reminding me of Carlos Mencia's "How to get a yob"
Well, that's sweet and jovial, TLP. The coffee must have been just right.
Jove: the location of all lost causes in 19th century britain "You d----d heathens! We'll be back by Jove!"
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Rye Howerexis....inventor of the cheese typewriter
O Ceallaigh -- kudos
ReplyDeleteDoug -- getting hit upside the head with an ax -- even one so famous -- is not my idea of a good time. Besides, wisdom would not poor forth from the chasm, but sarcasm, and while that does appear to be a valuable commodity here, it is not in short supply.
First Nations, sometimes they come back. My favorite use of "By Jove!" is by Saeed Jaffrey in The Man Who Would Be King. Just in case you were wondering.
ReplyDeleteActonbell, that's ironic since "Jupiter" is a contraction of "Jove Pater." Don't be impressed, I did some googlery just now. The coyote pup has been there a week or two. One morning, the little fella came and sat on the hill on my back lot and chattered with Willie and Walela and I got to my camera in time. I actually tried it out as an avatar but it felt so disloyal I changed back and put the little predator in the header.
Quilldancer, I think you should read up on The Paradox of Value aka the Diamond-Water Paradox. Here ya go. Enjoy. I love teaching economics.
Brian, I think Socrates was more likely to decorate in mauve but nice rhyme.
By Venus! I think you got it
ReplyDeletebhbtg: by Hercules, by the gorgonzola
BY JOVE, phr. What the good gentleman in Her Majesty's Brittanic Empire spoke, when what he really wanted to say was HO LEE [deleted]. But then, the historians all tell us that the Victorian English were prejudiced against the Chinese.
ReplyDeleteTea it is, puppyneva. And I guess for quilldancer too. Either that or she loves espresso.
Tea, and occasionally a bit of miso soup - speaking of algae broth, there, Doug. Thought you had me, didn't you?
:)
my mistake. I was going to say Jupiter not Jove, and so my comment is only slightly related. is that a problem on this site?
ReplyDeleteAriel
ReplyDeleteJove...I got nothing. Jove damnit.
ReplyDeleteTea? TEA?!? No, no, no...pink bubbly crack. Because, y'know, I handled it so well last week.
I'm with you Jenna. I got nothing. Except of course 'hi Doug'.
ReplyDelete*woof*
Jove,
ReplyDeleteSmall Island a little south of Java, obliterated when Krakatoa erupted
True, Brian. You're talking about a different hemlock now.
ReplyDeleteKarma, I have so missed your verifiers. I'm still chuckling.
By Jiminy, O Ceallaigh. I never think I have you. The breadth of your knowledge exceeds my horizons and aspirations.
Ariel, if irrelevancy was a problem on this site I'd have to delete it. Besides, Jupiter is a synonym for Jove (see my comment above to Actonbell so I can get credit again for my googlery.) Oh, and anonymity is ok, too.
Jove dammit is cute, Jenna. You did fine.
Hi, Kyah! *arf*
VI, wasn't that story the basis for the film, Jove, North of Java
oh Doug, do you think any of us figured Jupiter out without Google? (if so, my depest respect to the person!)
ReplyDeleteTLP and Actonbell both made me laugh, so funny comments!
am I the only one to think that Karma's verifiers are getting special new meaning with that naked ass next to them?
Ariel! i think you're on to something with Karma's verifiers (which are always exceptional). and without Googlery and/or Wikipediocy, how would i have known Jove/Jupiter was the original namesake of Thursday? (which is why my earlier comment was more clever than anyone realized. at least in my *head* it was!)
ReplyDeleteO'C: i, for one, am a big fan of miso soup! lovelovelove it! there's also a swell line of chapstick marketed by a company called Miso Pretty but, by jove, i guess that ought to be saved for another conversation on another day!
Jove: The non-musical past tense of jive. Made so to rhyme with Rove.
ReplyDeleteAriel, I like to think I'm as smart as Wikipedia and almost as accurate.
ReplyDeletePuppybrose, that's impressive but don't you mean Wednesday? Help me out, Minka.
Nice, Indie. I would vote re-elect if I could hear Karl Rove scat.
Karl Rove IS scat. Oh. Pardon me. ♥ xoxo
ReplyDeletenope... puppy is right, it is Thursday. DoUGLAS, DOUGLAS DOUGLAS! *SHAKES HEAD*
ReplyDeleteThere goes my whole belief system of you being as smart as Wikipedia. *sobs*
since i'm nothing, if not a Wikipediot:
ReplyDelete"The name of the god was also adopted as the name of the planet Jupiter, and was the original namesake of the weekday that would come to be known in English as Thursday"
just sayin'...
ha! minka... i didn't see you there! but yay for Wikipedia, eh? xox
ReplyDeleteaw poor Doug, are the penguin and the TT picking on you? bite 'em!!
ReplyDeleteI studied this at school ;)*showing off and being perfetcly fine with it*
ReplyDeleteDouglas, if you look at Latin based languages:
you can see the names for Thursday all derive from Jovis Dies which is "Day of Joves(Jupiter)". Now that was the internet talking though. *blushing*
Mireille, I think the heart may be the wrong dingbat for that sentence.
ReplyDeleteHeroes die hard, Minka. I've warned you all how easy it is to overestimate my intelligence.
Puppybrose, that makes sense since in Latin-derived Spanish, Thursday is named Jueves. Thank you for the education. Just to explain myself, Wotan/Wodan/Odin is the Norse equivalent for Zeus/Jupiter/Jove and the English name Wednesday honors him. Still, folly is folly and one day, there may be a Foliday named after me.
Kyahgirl, thank you. The scorn of my friends is a burden I carry lightly.
Minka, by Jove, you found a way to teach me some Latin. Thank Thor for you.
Folliday? i believe we've just added another great word to the ever growing WA lexicon! (which, of course, *more* than makes up for a minor academic stumble)
ReplyDeleteOh sweety, we didn´t mean it quite like that. No reason to put us on display like that *whispers in his ears: people might throw stuff!*
ReplyDeleteand I already saw you over at Shayna´s place...you don't need to brag about it! :) Although it is very sweet of you to advertise that endearing project in which I will also feature at some point.*bragging*
Doug, wouldn't your Folliday Holdiay be April 1st?
ReplyDeleteMinka and Puppytoes dissapointed in you? What's I miss???
ReplyDeleteI like ap3's observation abouty it sounding like Jehovah.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Romans decided to give Jehovah a nickname and use it for their main god. They certainly stole from the Greeks, so why not the Hebrews?
I find it difficult to take anyone named "Jove" seriously as a Lord of anything, much less lightning. The name sounds like a "men's fragrance".
ReplyDeleteis that a Sadie Sadie Married Lady i see up there? welcome back, and Aloha, Squaregirl! xox
ReplyDeleteDoug: we may mock, but disappointed in you? mordez votre langue!
This is the ONLY song I know that has JOVE in it... and BTW... thanks for the plug... :) :) xoxo
ReplyDeleteSmell of good earthy herbs makes my nerves shudder but where were you that cold December
cos we were in the Grasshopper spending guilders
Central Station, charged up like Scarface Amsterdam ain't a nice place off your face, we
enter the race
Walk down, been there before, done that, no joy, if you're bored, let's go see Roy, get
fucked up with the boys
Calvin, Schmalvin, I'm well within my limit, oh hang on a minute, these mushrooms just
kicked in, think I might be finished
The ball game heads for the worse, for what it's worth I might just fall off the edge of
the earth, brain's kind of surfing now
We wander down darkened pathways in a daze, "Want to buy any cocaine?", am I paranoid? "Yes,
you're paranoid"
Charlie, darling, please save me, this is raving, take me home to my baby, two bags of
mushrooms, room's mushed up and I need a cradle
In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy
In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy
Now getting to the bar's gonna be trouble
So the Marlons'll have to be doubles
Then you drink doubles
The same speed you drink singles
Ah beautiful, the barman holds aloft the crystal glass and I'm having all that's in the
bubble in the bottom of the bottle
Then by three or four, your head's a bit mangled
Club's full, you mingle
You dance the fandango
You sing all your favourite jingles
Far gone on one, call me Baron Von Marlon
One has a monocle and cigar
Dickie-bow and long johns
My utility belt tells me it's to the bar Batman
Fat cans of that lager then it's straight to the dance-floor
For much more fancy footwork, it's adored by many amour
Don't awe me with your little sidestep technique
Gget to the beat, loosen up, it's The Streets
In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy
In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy
We eat junk food, sat drunk on the tube
Every time the train clunks I feel like puking
Wonder whether that beautiful bird'll ring,
Then it all goes hazy, these are the days we're walking up out and back to the road, talking
Well shouting actually, loads more drunk, by Jove, mind's focused, balance fucked up
Ra, ra, ra, it's all back to the Dogstar and if it's his round I'm quite partial to another
Marlon at the bar
Bad idea to start again late, should've given my brain a break
Take it easy mate, you start to think you're a state, you definitely are a state
In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy
In its own little way, my body was trying to say that you better stop drinking brandy
Puppybrose, I couldn't get into the suggest a topic comments at Central Snark, so I would like to suggest this one here: How about name a Folliday.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Minka, I never asked for your admiration but now I realize how much it meant.
Quilldancer, April 1 is for everyone, like Thanksgiving. I think we need follidays for each religion, ethnicity and great leader. It's in the first category that I count myself.
HEY, Squaregirl's back. Or should that be Squarewoman?
Could be, Jamie Dawn. And Adonis might come from Adonai.
Unlike "Poobah" which sounds like a man's scent.
Yet another wound, Puppybrose?
Shayna, I can't guess.
Doug: With that scat comeback, I think you can move on to writing Marx Brothers sketches.
ReplyDeleteWhatever that is, Indie, I'm against it.
ReplyDeleteLong Live Freedonia!
what is there not to admire in a mind that's weak and a back that's strong? I sure do.
ReplyDeleteAriel, you're a discriminating woman. I admire that right back.
ReplyDeleteHail Hail Freedonia! When did you add this extra tidbit?
ReplyDeleteG, Freedonia refers to Indie's suggestion or did you mean the part in the post. That was added when I found out it was my turn at My Music Highway Project.
ReplyDeleteNot the Freedonia part - the Minka/Puppy/Shayna. Saw your music highway song choice - loved it.
ReplyDeleteIf people are mean to you just let me know, I'lltale care of them.
ReplyDeleteG, when I realized I was up on Shayna's project right after your NBFF and Minka were enlightening me.
ReplyDeleteCooper, I know you're true blue, lady.