The Hall of Fire

IT'S HARD IF I SAY IT'S HARD

*throws tantrum*

Its combined roll in a series of words can be malign, but the word itself is powerless, just like runes or symbols are mystical only if the viewer thinks they are. In truth, they're just blots or scratches. Sure. And Michelangelo's "David" is just a hunk of marble. :D Until it is crafted ...

If words had no power, Tolkien would just be another writer...no different than Danielle Steele. ;) Oh he's different. Much less compelling. Not enough (any) sex. And I wasn't saying that words have no power, just that no single word is "bad." Its combined role in a series of words can be...

Somewhere in my bookcase is a book on English usage that devotes 2 or 3 pages to the F word. Fascinating. If I can find it, or even if I can remember which book it is, I shall post it. I doubt it's Fowlers Modern English Usage. But it might be Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes. Chapter 10 is "Sexual...

Macs?

(Are those head coverings? No. Sorry)

No, Eru , I'm just terrified to lose my temper ;). I associated my Mom's language with a very... palpable anger. She is Irish... I didn't hear about the divorce-threat until I was grown up. Someone please tell baby tuckoo what is "bad" about a word. It is a word. It has reference, yes. It...

You've called it, Holbylad, though whether it was to himself is aperture to call.

Ms. Vison, you can find which and whereness nodoubtity by ogoogling it.

VTF: We do have that in common, though I saw it not at first. How could I miss The Lion of Judah? Well, sometimes one misses stuff. Vison: Irish for me, thanks, unless you've none. Then anything. As for my cognomen (I've used "moniker" for such in the past; yours is perhaps more accurate ...

How did you hear of our little community? It was whispered to me at an gathering of otherwise disreputable folk assembled for nefarious purposes and drunk on their assets. Being wealthy doesn't guarantee respectability. Perhaps the opposite. Based on their heraldry and the style of their brooches, ...

Being a good baby tuckoo, I come here first after reading the rules of engagement, etc. Then I read the consequences of "Not Coming Here First". Then I thought about the forces at work in society to cause general morality, even without direct supervision. Then I had a stiff drink and hurle...