Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking the Shakespeare play at first, and wondered if that happened before or after "exit pursued by a bear."

Aww, it's fun, most of the time. Good people, good food, nice summers and falls. The lake keeps us cool and breezy in ths summer, warm and breezy in the fall and dumps a metric shitton of snow on us every now again in the winter. Also snow days are great. (Says the person who's worked through every day of this…

I'm beginning to wonder the same thing. Maybe she was only mostly dead.

And now I need to watch the episode again. Are we really sure Skye's mom's really, permanently dead? Not just mostly dead? And it's not part of the Doc's plan to somehow resurrect her using the key and the temple and such?

Thanks! It might be interesting to go back and listen to what our crazy-haired doctor almost says. This episode in particular seems to emphasize that he's a liar with a habit of slips and near-slips — "Phil" and "wait, I don't know what that is" for instance.

"So Skye's dad wants revenge on Whitehall, and judging from his crazy ramblings, he seems to think he'll only be reunited with Skye in the afterlife."

I thought he was keeping Whitehall in the dark about the fact that she's alive - and nearly slipped there. Given what Whitehall did with that's-not-her-name's mom, I…

I really want to like this show. I just... ugh. There's probably a post in here about Hellblazer and the problems inherent in having been a trailblazer. "Has been" is right there, you know? It's been emulated in so many ways that, despite the fact that it arguably came first... it's now following the million…

Previous marriages. Died on the Lusitania. Bodies lost as sea. A shame, really.

I had more or less the same thought.

My point is it's a little like calling someone from Indiana a "Hoosier" and thinking you're cleverly insulting them. The ignorance I'm bemoaning isn't really on the part of the recipient, it's on the side of the issuer of the "insult." Basically, I was trying to agree with your point that it's not good to use xtian…

I don't have a side on this debate except to insert nuance where people prefer to ignore it. Hell, I'm not Catholic or even Christian anymore, but I'm still quite fond of the Church that taught me the critical thinking skills that would eventually lead to our breakup. I'm also not the one here using the word "xtian"…

Fucking geocetric. This is what I get for trying to brain on a sick day.

Giordano Bruno was a Dominican priest who had fled the order for heresy and continued to travel Europe in his Dominican robes lecturing on Hermetic magic (De Magia, Theses De Magia and De Vinculis In Genere) and publicly espousing the theory that Christ was nothing but an unusually skilled magician. The Inquisition…

It's a laughable attempt to insult. X is Chi. As in the first letter of Christ's name in Greek. It's a fully acceptable Christogram that has been used by the Church for thousands of years. Basically, it's only insulting to ignorant people.

Last month a friend announced that he was going to part the crowd where we were like Moses parted the Red Sea. He was going to spread his arms wide and announce: "You shall not pass!"

Gotta be this one. Hands down.

That image always makes me think of Andre Norton's All Cats Are Gray.

Marc?

My money's on eau de vie.

Pyx and pyxis. Oh the howling and gnashing of teeth when those are played...