The Eighth Day
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 12:39:27 +0100 (BST), philip_ayres@ wrote
Months ago, when we were first visiting the venue, Rachael commented that
I didn't seem to have as many opinions as her. My answer was that there
were only two things I wanted: for her to turn up; and, when she got there,
to say "I do". At the time, this seemed incomprehensible to her.
Now, after nine months of planning, she tends to agree with my view.
ObSF: Yesterday I spotted that Robert Heinlein pulled a fast one. In his
book "Number of the Beast" (probably in the IFIS library, yes) he offered
the theory that although the King James Bible said "six hundred, three
score and six", that this was because the Jacobeans didn't understand
raising numbers by powers. The Greeks did, though, and so the original
Greek was "zeta zeta zeta"; that is "six [^] six [^] six".
I looked it up yesterday. It isn't. It's "six-hundred sixty six" in the
original. (For those of you who speak Greek, try Rev. 13:18.)
I feel vaguely cheated. Robert Heinlein was generally good at consistency
and doing his homework, and to discover that he made stuff up is, well,
a bit of a let-down. :-(
Simon wrote:
you ????
What are these pre-wedding-nerves of which you speak?And if that doesn't scare you, try this:-
http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1475
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0326004
A "Preacher" film? I'm scared.
Is that just the idea of a Preacher film or pre wedding nerves getting tohttp://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1475
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0326004
A "Preacher" film? I'm scared.
you ????
Months ago, when we were first visiting the venue, Rachael commented that
I didn't seem to have as many opinions as her. My answer was that there
were only two things I wanted: for her to turn up; and, when she got there,
to say "I do". At the time, this seemed incomprehensible to her.
Now, after nine months of planning, she tends to agree with my view.
ObSF: Yesterday I spotted that Robert Heinlein pulled a fast one. In his
book "Number of the Beast" (probably in the IFIS library, yes) he offered
the theory that although the King James Bible said "six hundred, three
score and six", that this was because the Jacobeans didn't understand
raising numbers by powers. The Greeks did, though, and so the original
Greek was "zeta zeta zeta"; that is "six [^] six [^] six".
I looked it up yesterday. It isn't. It's "six-hundred sixty six" in the
original. (For those of you who speak Greek, try Rev. 13:18.)
I feel vaguely cheated. Robert Heinlein was generally good at consistency
and doing his homework, and to discover that he made stuff up is, well,
a bit of a let-down. :-(