# For our new friend Timo **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 21, 2013, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775 "2013-08-21T03:34:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775/101 "2013-08-23T14:59:13Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > I seem to remember a different pre-post pitting. Someone registered with a name similar or parodying a current member, and the current member did a preemptive pitting…anybody? I recall several slightly off names being registered in a short span. There’s an ATMB thread about this somewhere; don’t know if there’s also a Pit thread, though. ---
**Author:** ![HardlySanguine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HardlySanguine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HardlySanguine)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775/102 "2013-08-24T01:13:06Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > > Would that count as incest or masturbation? > > Parthenogenesis. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > > [@Reverend\_Meade](#): > > > > I can’t decide whether or not that’s a pun. > > I took it as one. Very funny. I’m not sure I get this… is it that Parthenogenesis is similar to “parthenon”-\>Greek-\>Oedipus-\>Incest…? And while we’re at it, can someone explain what God being sterile has to do with The Holy Trinity has to do with incest and/or masturbation? Something to do with Onanism? I know explaining jokes renders them unfunny but I would like to know. (If you can’t tell, I’m not and wasn’t raised in the Christian mythos…) ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775/103 "2013-08-24T01:23:48Z")
> [@HardlySanguine](#): > > I’m not sure I get this… is it that Parthenogenesis is similar to “parthenon”-\>Greek-\>Oedipus-\>Incest…? > > And while we’re at it, can someone explain what God being sterile has to do with The Holy Trinity has to do with incest and/or masturbation? Something to do with Onanism? I know explaining jokes renders them unfunny but I would like to know. > > (If you can’t tell, I’m not and wasn’t raised in the Christian mythos…) Parthenogenesis is asexual reproduction without fertilization. So it’s like reproducing on your own without a partner, hence the masturbation/incest angle. Someone correct me if I’m off here… ---
**Author:** ![HardlySanguine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HardlySanguine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HardlySanguine)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775/104 "2013-08-24T01:28:27Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Parthenogenesis is asexual reproduction without fertilization. So it’s like reproducing on your own without a partner, hence the masturbation/incest angle. You’ve lost me already - what does asexual reproduction have to do with incest and masturbation? ETA: Ohh, ok I think I’m starting to get the pun… Just glanced at the wiki page for parthenogensis: “The word _parthenogenesis_ comes from the [Greek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language) παρθένος, _parthenos_, meaning “[virgin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin)” and γένεσις, _genesis_, meaning “birth”.[[1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenogenesis#cite_note-1)” I’m still not understanding what the virgin birth has to do with incest, masturbation and God shooting blanks, though… ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775/105 "2013-08-24T01:30:15Z")
> [@HardlySanguine](#): > > I’m not sure I get this… is it that Parthenogenesis is similar to “parthenon”-\>Greek-\>Oedipus-\>Incest…? > > And while we’re at it, can someone explain what God being sterile has to do with The Holy Trinity has to do with incest and/or masturbation? Something to do with Onanism? I know explaining jokes renders them unfunny but I would like to know. > > (If you can’t tell, I’m not and wasn’t raised in the Christian mythos…) Parthenos is the Greek word for virgin, as used in the gospel of Matthew. Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It may have been intended as a pun, but I doubt it. The incest and masturbation ideas come from God being three-in-one (masturbation) as well as a Father and Son (incest). ---
**Author:** ![HardlySanguine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HardlySanguine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HardlySanguine)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775/106 "2013-08-24T01:34:27Z")
Past the edit limit. Maybe I should look at Wikipedia more often… Apparently it was The Holy Ghost (part of the Holy Trinity) which impregnated Mary, Jesus’ mum? I get the bit about God shooting blanks now, but not the incest nor masturbation connection. ---
**Author:** ![HardlySanguine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HardlySanguine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HardlySanguine)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775/107 "2013-08-24T01:39:36Z")
OK, thanks, **DrFidelius**. I think I get it… is this Holy Trinity thing supposed to make sense, by the way? Just skimming, it seems like a mish-mash of half-realized ideas about God. Granted, that is most religions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-our-new-friend-timo/666775.md?page=5)