We’ve all been there. We’ve had some burning question that has taken up residence in our brains, but never really thought that they were a big enough deal to actually warrant starting a thread about them. So let’s make an ongoing thread devoted to those questions. I’ll start:
In two fairly recent songs, “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson, Bruno Mars, etc, and “Riptide” by Vance Joy, Michelle Pfeiffer is held up as the quintessential example of beauty. Why her? I’m sure there are some fans of the songs young enough to not remember her in her youth. Not to say that she’s not still attractive, but it seems almost anachronistic to use her. I suspect it’s more that her name can be easily inserted to fit the rhythm of a song, and fairly easy to rhyme.
In a couple of other songs (“Some Nights” by fun.,“Roar” by Katy Perry, and “You Got to Stand for Something” by John Mellencamp are three right off the top of my head), there’s a notion expressed that people need to “stand” for something. I don’t understand the notion, though. How does one stand for something? What do I stand for? What do you stand for? How did you determine what you stand for? Did you announce it?
Come on, Dopers, what have you always wondered, but just never asked?
Is the l in Holmes (as in Sherlock, for instance) meant to be silent? I always thought “Homes” was just the way posh people say it. Now I’m unsure.
Also, are the words Poll and Pole homophones?
I don’t think it works that way in biblical terminology. It is a series of days labeled in sequence with a number. Friday is the 1st day, Saturday is the 2nd and Sunday is the 3rd. Sure, 11:59 pm Friday night to 12:01 am Sunday is just barely over 24 hours but that isn’t the scale they were using. We even use this type of scale today for some things like payroll and other hard deadlines.
Since it appears that the thread was intended for CS-style questions, and since both of the questions in the OP are of that form, this thread can stay here. Please limit further questions to the arts. If you have other such questions on other topics, feel free to open a companion thread in GQ.
Actually, it might come from a folk belief among Jews at the time that you weren’t fully dead until you were three days dead. The belief probably stemmed from a lack of understanding of altered states, and a poor ability to tell when someone was actually dead. After three days of being unconscious, somebody probably was dead, though, because in that particular climate, they may have died of thirst while in an altered state, especially if they were weak from something else.
Anyway, there were enough cases of somebody suspected of being dead who “came back to life” after an hour, or even a whole day, that there would be nothing impressive about Jesus coming back to life after that short a time. He had to come back after being dead for three days.
Now, he may not have been dead for three full 24 hour periods, but if people at the time were satisfied with the way the days were reckoned that he was dead enough for it to add up to 3 days, I’m not going to argue. Not being a Christian, I don’t believe in the resurrection anyway, so I don’t know what shenanigans were going on, but Jesus apparently passed muster as “3 days dead.”
Shredded Wheat (including bite size) contains no salt and no sugar. Why can’t (or won’t) cereal manufacturers make any other style of cereal with no salt and no sugar?
I didn’t think of this before, when I commented on Jesus being dead for three days, but people had been raised from the dead before, without any intervention of moshiach, or the suspicion that the person doing the deed for HaShem being suspected of being moshiach; nor is it predicted anywhere in the Jewish scriptures that moshiach will have been raised from the dead.
Just thought I’d note that. I’ve had people ask me “Why don’t Jews believe when Jesus was raised from death?” That’s the answer in a nutshell.
There’s more, concerning, we don’t really know for sure what happened to Jesus, etc., etc., but that’s beside my point.
Speaking of all this Easter stuff, has anyone here ever checked out the original Cecil B. DeMille King of Kings (1927)? That’s some awesome epic shit there, with the opening and resurrection scenes shot in two-color technicolor. Magnificent crucifixion scene and death of Judas. The huge gate they built was re-used six years later in King Kong. H.B. Warner had to have lunch in his trailer every because the producers didn’t want Jesus to be seen waiting in line at the canteen.
Fascinating social pop history too; DeMille went around to every damn clergyman in L.A. and got testimonials from the heads of all the local Christian and Jewish denominations. Didn’t want any cracker bible thumpers or Billy Sundays to call him a heretic.
Because then it would also be shredded wheat or plain oats or bran or something similar. Is it really the only one with no salt or no sugar? The bran and grain cereals that taste like chewing on gravel have sugar (or just salt, maybe)?
