Musical_Midnight & FJohnSharp: The Thread

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:25 pm

Can we start handing out the party hats and the wine now?

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:34 pm

Graffiti I saw in college.

My dog is dying by inches
and dying by inches is hard
so I took him out in the alley
and let him die by the yard.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:09 pm

My whistle tutor, not named Gunther:

edit: Not Gunther was scary that big.

Sunnywindo · Post by **Sunnywindo** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:20 pm

Bloomfield wrote:It's not "their" thread. It's a thread named after them.

Ahhh! I get it now....

Sara (who will "try" to follow the rules from now on)

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 4:23 pm

Seven times five is thirty five. Every time.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:00 pm

A brown bull ate an egg in heaven today.

Slan,
D.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:12 pm

I bought one of those nose hair trimmer thingies about a week ago.

aderyn_du · Post by **aderyn_du** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:17 pm

I haven't done my Yule shopping yet.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:23 pm

Our upstairs stoopid radiant floor heat like totally doesn't work and the whole floor is ice cold and I just put a flimsy space heater in my bedroom and it's still freezing and there's no-one you can call about stoopid radiant floor heat, and it's reallyreallyreallyreally making me cranky!

Crevan · Post by **Crevan** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:00 pm

pi is exactly 3!

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:29 pm

If you're in Annapolis eat at the Yin Yankee Café. The Panang Tofu Noodle Curry is so spicy it makes your mouth go twang, and also, it's very warm in there.

JMcCYoung · Post by **JMcCYoung** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:50 pm

For that hard-to-shop-for person:

The Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago is offering a
correspondence course on cuneiform as part of its adult education program.
"Cuneiform-by-Mail" starts January 17, 2005 and runs through May 9 (8
sessions over 16 weeks). More details as well as registration information
are available on the OI web site:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/OI_Public_Programs.html.

January 17, 2004 -
May 9, 2005

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE: Cuneiform by Mail
The cuneiform script is one of the oldest writing systems in the world. From
3100 B.C. to A.D. 75, scribes in the ancient Near East - particularly those in
ancient Mesopotamia who wrote texts in the Akkadian language - used cuneiform
to write a wide variety of documents such as law collections, private and
official letters, business records, royal inscriptions, myths and epics, and
scientific and astronomical observations. This eight-lesson course will
familiarize students with the development and history of the cuneiform
script in the ancient Near East while teaching them 110 frequently used
cuneiform signs and introducing them to the Akkadian language.

Complete each lesson and return the exercises by mail or fax to the
instructor, who will correct the exercises, answer any questions, and return
the materials to you.

Instructor Dennis Campbell is a graduate student in Hittitology in the
University of Chicago's Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations. He also works with Hurrian and Akkadian materials.

This course begins on Monday, January 17 and continues for 16 weeks.
Registration deadline: January 10. Pre-registration is required.

Required Texts:
A Workbook of Cuneiform Signs. Daniel C. Snell. Aids and Research Tools in
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 5. Malibu: Undena Publications, 1979.
Cuneiform. C. B. F. Walker. Reading the Past, Vol. 3. University of
California Press and British Museum, 1987.

Fee: $235 for Oriental Institute Members, $265 for Non-Members.

The deadline to register for "Cuneiform" is Jan. 10, 2005.

Inquiries can also be e-mailed to: oi-education@uchicago.edu

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:55 pm

I was thinking the other day, and I THOUGHT that my favorite candle scent was Macintosh, but you know, I really think that I like Vanilla Cookie better. I don't know...it just has a warmer smell to it. Maybe it's just me....

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:00 pm

This thread is like overhearing one side of a cellphone call. And another, and another ...

OK, I'll call you when I get there. Don't worry about me. Everything'll be fine.

Right.

Yeah. No, I won't forget.

OK, can you tell him for me?

Gotta go.

Oh, something about rules. Some kind of stupid rule. Look, I gotta go. Really.

Best wishes,
Jerry

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:42 pm

Once, I killed a man, just to watch him die.