The pics thread

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It's not. WTF?

 

[Valerie]

You know your joke goes over people's heads and/or isn't funny when only Zeph quotes and laughs at it

 

[cookiecutter]

I am a huge proponent of free speech and so I would never want to see a group like this silenced as bad as they are. There are laws regarding how far you must be from funerals to protest and as long as they follow the laws, they should be allowed to do what they do. I think anti-hate speech legislation is wrong.

 

[Rabid Headbanger]

Baseball bats and molotov cocktails do much more then legislation.

That said I wish more people would physically attack these assholes.

 

[Zephyrus]

You know your joke goes over people's heads and/or isn't funny when only Zeph quotes and laughs at it

Anyone who's read Sophocles should understand that picture. Oedipus tore his eyes out after finding out that he indeed killed his father and married his mother.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I didn't read "Broedipus" with the right pronunciation at first. Then by the time I figured it out that it rhymed with "Oedipus", I was just wondering why he was even holding a piece of bread. There's so much mental work involved in the joke that the funny nonsequitur part came across as just another weird riddle to be deciphered.

 

[The Ozzman]

Explain.

I just read the specifics of what a hate crime is. Nevermind.

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

Anyone who's read Sophocles should understand that picture. Oedipus tore his eyes out after finding out that he indeed killed his father and married his mother.

I've read Oedipus Rex several times, but I don't get why he's holding a piece of bread.

edit: Oh, now I get it. It's a fairly long walk, I think.

 

[Zephyrus]

Heh, didn't take me too long. So long as you know the common pronunciation of "Oepidus".

 

[ThisIsACoolName]

I usually read it as "Eedipus", so I saw the picture and thought "Uh.. Br-eedipus?... What...?"

 

[Zephyrus]

In ecclesiastical Latin, the oe dipthong is pronounced like a short e. However in the original Greek it was pronounced more like a true dipthong.

 

[unknown]

there he goes

 

[Zephyrus]

In classical Latin, it would be pronounced Oydipuss.

 

[panzerfaust666]

Ive been meaning to/wanting to learn Latin for quite some time now.Its such a beautiful language.

 

[Zephyrus]

Pay me and I'll tutor you.

 

[panzerfaust666]

fuck yeah!
I do however live on the other side of the continent

 

[Zephyrus]

Minor detail.......

 

[panzerfaust666]

hmmmm...Ill try to get around that somehow.
If you cant tutor me, any suggestions of where/how I can learn it,besides school?

 

[Zephyrus]

I'll have to search for some books you could buy.

 

[skeptik]

The problem that I had with Breadipus was that I was so used to Lady V making "bro-" jokes that I thought she was doing one of those, so by the time I realized that wasn't what she was doing, it lost teh funay.