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27 September 2008

The Perils Of Assuming That Everyone Is Familiar With The Pentateuch: An Anecdote! [More:]

Out with some colleagues last night, my housemate was describing another colleague's house as "a ma-hoo-ssive flat", which I heard as "a Methuse-flat", which really confused me because their apartment is relatively new and very not Methuselah-ish. I asked what the apartment's age had to do with anything, got a bunch of confused looks, asked if the colleague if she had said "Methuse-flat", was told one can add a hoo in between the syllables of massive, and crawled back into my linguistic hole.

Apparently no one told me there's an eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not assume someone is inserting random references from Genesis into Friday evening conversations at the pub.
Hmm. So, it used to be, I thought that it was important to be familiar with the Bible, in order to understand literary allusions and cultural references and whatnot. Is that changing, do you think?
posted by box 27 September | 08:26
A ma-hoo-ssive bottle of Champagne.
posted by StickyCarpet 27 September | 10:01
I think saying anything with "hoo" in the middle is rehoolly fuhoocking stuhoopid.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 27 September | 10:44
Oops, reading the comments it turns out that that is a mere jereboam.
posted by StickyCarpet 27 September | 10:58
Yes, but Jereboam smote the Tittie-ites, remember?

It's somewhere in the back if you don't.
posted by trondant 27 September | 23:25
i appreciate a little Methuselan reference, a Beastie Boys throw to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, even, but realize i am not your average bear or your every day pick a nick basket.
posted by ethylene 27 September | 23:36
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