# Angels **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [February 4, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160 "2008-02-04T01:55:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/21 "2008-02-04T23:52:21Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] May I just take this opportunity to say I love your food cake. [/QUOTE] Not me. I love the Other Guy’s food cake. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/22 "2008-02-05T01:27:57Z")
Every time a bell rings, [an angel spams a messageboard.](http://christianforums.com/t77399-i-am-an-angel.html) ---
**Author:** ![Find\_Friends](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/23 "2008-02-05T03:09:32Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] Ahhhh, ya gotta love Gaudere… [/QUOTE] I’m just a newbee, so I had to look up the reference. So what are you saying? Did I mispell something? * * * TBJ ---
**Author:** ![askeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@askeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/askeptic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/24 "2008-02-05T03:56:24Z")
[QUOTE=True Blue Jack] I’m just a newbee, so I had to look up the reference. So what are you saying? Did I mispell something? * * * TBJ [/QUOTE] I guess the whoosh is on me… eta:apropos of nothing this is my first post from my iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/25 "2008-02-05T08:54:26Z")
[QUOTE=askeptic] I trust you will forgive me if I don’t take your word for it. [/QUOTE] What? An angel wouldn’t lie, still less one whose posting is personally approved by God! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/26 "2008-02-05T09:45:37Z")
Is it just me, or does ‘Angel Food Cake’ grate on your nerves too? It just seems so grammatically awkward and redundant. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/27 "2008-02-05T11:01:55Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Is it just me, or does ‘Angel Food Cake’ grate on your nerves too? It just seems so grammatically awkward and redundant. [/QUOTE] I presume there is angel food fo some sort, and then you can make a cake out of it. However, Dog Food and Dog Food cake would seem to have the same grammatical construct, and yet Dog Food Cake is pretty disgusting to contemplate eating. That said, isn’t Mangetout “eats everything”? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/28 "2008-02-05T11:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=Attack from the 3rd dimension] I presume there is angel food fo some sort, and then you can make a cake out of it. [/quote] Yeah, it must be something like that. Still feels wrong. Angel cake, Angel food, OK, Angel food cake, wrong. It just stumbles off the tongue. > [@](#): > > However, Dog Food and Dog Food cake would seem to have the same grammatical construct, and yet Dog Food Cake is pretty disgusting to contemplate eating. Not if you’re a dog. Then again, if you’re a dog, horse shit cake probably sounds appetising. > [@](#): > > That said, isn’t Mangetout “eats everything”? It certainly is. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/29 "2008-02-05T12:09:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Grassy hills, I could quite enjoy - I’m not sure about long, unspaced paragraphs though. Does everyone in heaven write out huge blocks of text like that? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sera’naphsus] We angels know that your bible as it stands was nothing more than a futher affect or perversion from the fallen and a clever one at that. [/QUOTE] The fallen, it seems, are much more adept at formatting what with the books, chapters, verses and such. Either that or this proves once and for all that Grammar and Spelling are truly the purgative of Evil. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/30 "2008-02-05T13:45:27Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Not if you’re a dog. Then again, if you’re a dog, horse shit cake probably sounds appetising. [/QUOTE] Ah, I see you’ve met my dog. ::barf:: ---
**Author:** ![xavierrudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/5f9b8f/32.png) [@xavierrudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xavierrudd)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/31 "2008-02-05T14:28:33Z")
You made a spelling error. You left the ‘e’ out of whether. Unless angels can make up there own words as they go. Or maybe you were just testing us, huh. ---
**Author:** ![xavierrudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/5f9b8f/32.png) [@xavierrudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xavierrudd)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/32 "2008-02-05T14:43:41Z")
Your funny. I like you. Sorry I commented on your spelling, mine is bad to. And I’m not even an angel! Now I have to go and eat some ‘I’m not crazy’ cake. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/33 "2008-02-05T16:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=John W. Kennedy] No, it’s just an old Hebrew euphemism, like saying “bathroom” or “lavatory” or “water closet” or “head” or “necessary” or “toilet” or “privy” or “outhouse” or “restroom” or “wayside” or “basement” or “garderobe” when you actually mean “crapper”. [/QUOTE] Thank goodness the NT is written in Greek, then, or the whole “Jesus washes his disciples’ feet” thing would have had rather oogy implications. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/34 "2008-02-05T16:22:26Z")
Bow chicka bow chicka bow wow wah. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/35 "2008-02-05T17:22:05Z")
A few things: Did the fall of the angels precede the winter of our discontent? Are there any seemingly grassy knolls? How are the efforts coming to get the angels unionized? ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2008, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/36 "2008-02-05T18:23:18Z")
I’m not sure this fits with the tone of the thread, but that is one epic response **Dex**. Nicely done! Not to ruffle any feathers, but is **Dex** the same person as **CK Dexter Haven**? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/37 "2008-02-06T00:05:50Z")
Will the angel return or is this a onetime visitation? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/38 "2008-02-06T00:42:00Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Yeah, it must be something like that. Still feels wrong. Angel cake, Angel food, OK, Angel food cake, wrong. It just stumbles off the tongue. [/QUOTE] How do you feel about “Devil’s food cake”? Is that okay, or should I start calling it “Devil cake”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/39 "2008-02-06T03:17:14Z")
[QUOTE=SiXSwordS] Not to ruffle any feathers, but is **Dex** the same person as **CK Dexter Haven**? [/QUOTE] Yep. Both is me. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160/40 "2008-02-06T08:54:07Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] How do you feel about “Devil’s food cake”? Is that okay, or should I start calling it “Devil cake”? 😃 [/QUOTE] That one seems to work a bit better anyway - partly because of the conspicuously possessive noun. I think it’s probably because there are also such things as angel cakes, so angel _food_ cake - even though it means _cakes that are suitable for feeding angels_ - still sounds awkward - like there’s something called ‘food cake’, implying there are other, non-food types of cake too - perhaps _lightweight throwing cake_ or _automatic tire damage cake_. ETA: ‘Soft eating cake’ (appearing on a lot of baked goods from the Netherlands) strikes me in the same way - as if there must also be things like a (less popular) ‘Soft _sleeping_ cake’… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels/436160.md?page=3)