# Calvary is the hill Jesus was crucified on. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2009, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094 "2009-02-02T06:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/81 "2009-02-03T22:10:31Z")
> [@dmatsch](#): > > You’re the ex-President for Christ sakes. Didn’t you have advisors??? Of course not. He has _aids_. That is funny on no fewer than 29 levels. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/82 "2009-02-03T22:27:56Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I sound like a broken record, but want to take every chance to point out it’s _restaurateur_, not restauranteur. I did not know that. You, girlie, have successfully fought ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/83 "2009-02-03T22:28:59Z")
> [@dmatsch](#): > > FUCKING **NU-CLE-AR**!!! > > You’re the ex-President for Christ sakes. Didn’t you have advisors??? It’s deliberate with many Republicans since Eisenhower. They want to sound like they fit in. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/84 "2009-02-03T22:37:30Z")
**Poison** is ingested. **Venom** is injected. Snakes are **venomous**. Spiders are **venomous**. Plants are **poisonous**. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/85 "2009-02-03T22:46:08Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Not as often seen but also annoying: > **humorous** - having the quality of humor > **humerus** - bone in the upper arm > **humerous** - ??having the quality of a bone in the upper arm?? **Humus** - biological matter in soil **Hummus** - a middle eastern dip (no, not Khamenei) ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/86 "2009-02-03T22:52:53Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > **Capital** - a city > **Capitol** - a building, probably in that city Sometimes you need capital to build a capitol. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > **Poison** is ingested. > **Venom** is injected. > > Snakes are **venomous**. Spiders are **venomous**. > > Plants are **poisonous**. What if you eat the snake or spider? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/87 "2009-02-03T23:06:44Z")
You spelling nitpickers are whiny loosers. Really, why does a mispelling effect you? Your like some school principle or something. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/88 "2009-02-03T23:54:13Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > A highlight of the 1988 Winter Olympics. Hey, there… is that window seat taken? _Ticket to hell for one, please._ ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/89 "2009-02-03T23:57:47Z")
> [@Peanut\_Gallery](#): > > Until this thread, I had no idea Jesus was crucified in Canada. –golf clap– **Through** : The boar bored his way through the bored core of the crowd. **Thorough** : The boar was extremely thorough in goring to the core of the crowd. Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all weak. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/90 "2009-02-04T00:07:00Z")
**Humerus** : Bone from mid-arm to wrist. **Humorous** : A cause for hilarity or gaity. Laughter-producing. - Smacking your humerus is sometimes quite humorous\*. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/91 "2009-02-04T00:17:38Z")
The pile of gold that a dragon guards is a “hoard.” The army of Orcs fighting the dragon is a “horde.” Crap fantasy writers, please take note. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/92 "2009-02-04T00:25:36Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > You spelling nitpickers are whiny loosers. Really, why does a mispelling effect you? Your like some school principle or something. _twitches_ ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/93 "2009-02-04T00:29:54Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > **Humerus** : Bone from mid-arm to wrist. You must have some extremely strange anatomy. It’s possible that the bones from mid-arm to wrist are the _ulna_ and the _radius_, and the humerus is instead the bone between the acromioclavicular joint and the elbow. But heck, what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/94 "2009-02-04T00:30:05Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > **Missed the darned E.T.A. window.** Also missed the darned post #73? 😃 But thank you for joining in in solidarity! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/95 "2009-02-04T02:03:46Z")
> [@](#): > > **Boyo Jim** > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by **njtt** > > Que > > (n.) A half farthing. > > I had no idea you could do a half fart. Isn’t that like being a little pregnant? Is that a very feeble joke or just poor reading comprehension? ```auto FARTHING, n. 1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being the fourth of a penny in value. In America we have no coin of this kind. We however use the word to denote the fourth part of a penny in value, but the penny is of different value from the English penny, and different in different states. It is becoming obsolete, with the old denominations of money. 2. Farthings, in the plural, copper coin. 3. Very small price or value. It is not worth a farthing, that is, it is of very little worth, or worth nothing. 4. A division of land. [Not now used.] Thirty acres make a farthing-land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee. [Webster](http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/farthing) ``` I cite the old version of Webster here because most modern dictionaries do not include the last definition. However, it will be familiar to readers of Tolkien (as there are four Farthings in the Shire, he is probably riffing on both meanings one and four). Farthing coins were still in circulation in Britain in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/96 "2009-02-04T02:04:22Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Also missed the darned post #73? 😃 But thank you for joining in in solidarity! 🆒 \<----- Cracked up. Does that make us a solitary duet ? Indeed, what do you know- you’re a fish. Make no bones about it, you work for scale and if you haddock preference you’d have been born a lobster. 😃 ( I sit corrected, anatomically and informationally. Ignorance and bizarre physiologies stamped out !! ) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/97 "2009-02-04T06:14:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Que > (n.) A half farthing. As an example of correct usage, if you’re around G then Z would be a farthing and que would be a half farthing. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/98 "2009-02-04T06:37:24Z")
> [@SisterCoyote](#): > > I had the opposite problem - I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why there were so many “Cavalry” churches out there. They need places for the horses’ asses to go to church on Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/99 "2009-02-04T06:42:18Z")
You win some, you loose some. A lot of people like to play fast and lose with the language. Penultimate just sounds more impressive than ultimate. Nine out of ten people couldn’t tell you the difference between decimate and devastate. This stuff does, at some fundamental level, bug the hell out of me. I try to console myself with the following, not from this board: Originally posted by **James Nicoll** : > [@](#): > > "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that the English language is as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary. " Originally posted by **fleetmouse** > [@](#): > > God, I love the Frankenstein’s monster that is English. Sewn together out of dead languages and living ones that it kills and uses for spare parts. If the human race were exterminated, English would find a new host or wait for one to evolve. English does not sleep. It waits. My fellow prescriptivists, lost causes may be the only ones worth fighting for, but I’m afraid that the truth is, as far as usage goes, best expressed by Rorschach: it’s not locked up in here with us, we’re locked up in here with it. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094/100 "2009-02-04T14:39:58Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > You spelling nitpickers are whiny loosers. Really, why does a mispelling effect you? Your like some school principle or something. Hey, look at that! I’m bleeding from my ear! > [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I did not know that. You, girlie, have successfully fought ignorance. I take no credit–I got schooled by someone else on the Dope and am passing it on. But it is cool– restaurer - Fr. to restore restaurant - gerund restoring restaurateur - restorer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvary-is-the-hill-jesus-was-crucified-on/484094.md?page=6)