Cringe at "Crimbo"

[UnquietDad]

Please sign in here if you do. I think people who use it should be shot.

Ah-ha

indeedy, Threadie. I too must go.
Habbibu - what bunfight thread? Tell me, for next time I've got something unpleasant to put off.

Alas, I too am off - the baby awakes.

Does she mean the one about men getting their wives to cook 'em something nice for the office. Ho ho.

well, if you won't read my posts

By Habbibu on Tue 16-Dec-08 14:36:09
Here, onebat. But you're only to post if you utterly agree with me. Otherwise I'll cry.

Before I go, however: cooooooo-eeee, finknottle - should you return... Please answer my question! Thanking you.

I don't want to tread on Penthesileia's toes, but can I just suggest that MP (mu rho) on a Christian icon could be MITIR (mother). It was the first thing I thought of.

Just to clarify re the Greek icon (it has been bothering me, I really need a new hobby!)

I think they don't tend to write Maria on icons, it's usually Theotokos or Panagia

Good thinking, alexpolismum! Not toe-treading at all! I was a bit hmm about the mu rho anyway.

Yes - MHTHP would make more sense than Mariam, etc. Interesting about the Greek ikon thing: I'm not familiar with them, really.

Hooray! Thank you!

Grr - frustratingly, if you put mu rho MHTHP into Google an article comes up that seems to offer the solution, but I can't open it. Anyway - it appears you are completely right.

Threadworrm - look this way!

V interesting. Thank you both.

So it says 'Mother' on one side, then 'Son of God' on the other, then (below) ic(with line over c), then 'Christ the Saviour'.

The writing is very indistinct and seems to function as a set of labels for the images. But why? Why have the writing? The images are, well, iconic, and need no explanation.

Well, I suppose it has something to do with the perceived and mystical incantatory importance of writing, on the one hand (since it was invented, writing's been seen as a strange kind of power), and on the other hand, it is about writing the word of God. So, if you think of the beginning of John (In the beginning was the Word (logos)), then you can see that words, writing, have a special place in Christianity; Christ was the Word.

Word up.

Take this UQD !

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gUxxXIwGvK0

Merry Crimbo

Hey finknottle - seems I have my answer, btw, about the mu rho.

Oh, and in case they are any theological philosophers out there, I know that logos is, like, totally more complex than that. Ok?

Crimbo is a very bad word

Words like Chrimbo are the evolution of the english language. They are our proud affirmation that we don't have an Academy like the French and the Germans to lay down rules, yet our language still beats theirs, because its simple and flexible, and people can start saying Crimbo and similar if they feel like it.

I Crimbo

go and put your cardie on UQD, and smoke your pipe in front of the gas fire!

I just thought of another one.

Crimbo deccys (deccies?)

A friend says this when talking about putting up decorations.

'Crimbo' is ghastly.

I spell out 'Christmas' even in texts.

Deccies for decorations is awful too, in fact any pseudo-scouse/australian abbreviation makes me cringe.

I also hate 'Uni', & a friend of mine used to say 'bonk' as in 'I had a bonk'. Yuk, yuk, yuk!

Yes, I thought about magical, incantatory power. But I didn't know whether that formed a part of the Byzantine tradition or not.

It seems strangely anti-Judeo-Christian to make a fetish of the written word, notwithstanding 'In the beginning was the Word.'

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 'Crimbo'.
And God saw Crimbo and saw that it was naff.

And he said unto his people
Worship ye not the word Crimbo
Or I will smite ye
Yeah unto the very end of your people

I love the word crimbo :-p

i ope you all ave a proper crimbo

UQD - Crimbo is just slang for Christmas. I would prefer people to say intoxicated or squiffy rather than wrecked or pissed-up. This thread doesn't belong in Pedants' Corner; it's a Room 101 thing.

Sweet Christmas, I'd forgotten about Deccies. Say it in a Derek Hatton accent for full buttock-clenching effect.

you're quite right, Swedes. Again.