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Good evening. I'm IHCOYC, a handle I have been using on Usenet since around 1995, and on BBSs since maybe 1984. The handle deserves an explanation. There was a Commodore 64 BBS back then that ran homebrewed software that displayed data in ALL CAPS. When choosing a handle to use there, I was Ømomentarily moved to call myself IHCOYC XPICTOC (that is, IHΣOYΣ XPIΣTOΣ) to see if anyone got the joke. If you wonder what it stands for, think Greek. On a recent caprice, I have recently changed my handle here to "Smerdis of Tlön." Later, I was one of the operators of the Microdot BBS that operated in southern Indiana from 1985 to 1999. I still miss the BBSes.
My real name is Steve Gustafson. I practice law in New Albany, Indiana. My interests include Indo-European, Germanic, and Latin linguistics, nineteenth century French literature, the English Civil War, the Reformation, the 1600s. I am a proud member of the empty set, and a thorough and methodical pessimist.
I am neither the captain of my fate, nor the master of my soul. And I have no interest in filling the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. I am a Pepsi Generation dropout.
The party hasn't started until Schopenhauer gets there!
[edit] Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia
- (Thou) is used in solemn ritual occasions, in readings from the King James Bible, in Shakespeare, in starchily formal literary compositions that seek to evoke the solemn emotions called forth by these antecedents, and otherwise to address lofty persons like God, Achilles, or the Mighty Thor.
- From Punch and Judy: Featuring, as it does, a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating psychopath, who performs appalling acts of violence and cruelty upon all those around him and escapes scot-free, it is greatly enjoyed by small children.
- Interest in the Holy Foreskins has been specifically downplayed, with the observation in 1900 that these particular relics encouraged irreverent curiosity.
- Although most timpanists only have two hands, it is possible to play more than two timpani at once.
- From B,C,K,W System: in the context to recover [GKL], leave I without defining it: so, beware!.
- Wenn Prinz Adam sein Zauberschwert in die Luft streckt und die Zauberformel: "Bei der Macht von Grayskull!" ausruft, verwandelt er sich in He-Man, den stärksten Mann des Universums.
- The majority (of snakebite victims in the United States) are inebriated men, frequently unemployed, and almost universally tattooed.
- Attempts at using vacuum cleaner base units for (penis enlargement) have resulted in severe damage when the fan of the vacuum cleaner is contacted.
- As the song progresses, many of the other crucifixion victims . . . begin to dance in a very limited way
- Galileo made the same point, but said very little on the matter, perhaps not wishing to be burned at the stake.
- This term should not be confused with an act of war waged by Smurf cartoon characters.
- The referendum divided Kenyans and spurred violence between Orange and Banana supporters. . .
- From Year 2038 problem: Using a 64-bit value introduces a new wrap around date in about 290 billion years, on Sunday, December 4, 292,277,026,596 15:30:08 UTC. This problem is not, however, widely regarded as a pressing issue.
- The subject of the song is the arrival of the mighty Quinn, who changes despair into joy and chaos into rest, and attracts attention from the animals.
- May I submit UTOPIAN TURTLETOP? Do not trouble to answer unless you like it. - Poet Marianne Moore, suggesting a brand name for the Ford Edsel car.
- Singing Trolls relate their hate of humans, especially Christians, which are for them a plague to eradicate - and to eat.
[edit] Stuff I done
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[edit] Articles I am guilty of
[edit] Language and peoples:
Geats - Svear - Metathesis - Propertius - laryngeal theory - augment - vowel stems - irregular verb - lorem ipsum - archaism - thou - period (rhetoric) - alliterative verse - skald - scop - standard language - Old French - indicative mood - ain't - subjunctive mood - negation (grammar) - Wikipedia:English phonetic spelling - English verb - Larry Trask - athematic - ankh - monophthong - Vulgar Latin (much of it) - origin of language - ablative absolute - cadigan - oldest language - Latin profanity
Geneva Bible - Great Bible - Bishops' Bible - King James Version of the Bible (large additions and edits) - Pilgrim's Progress - Joseph Glanvill - Sadducismus Triumphatus - Demon drummer of Tedworth - Jeremy Taylor - Holy Living and Holy Dying - Conventicle Act - penal law - Melancholia (large addition) - Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy - demonology - Thomas Browne - Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial - Divine right of kings (large addition) - Wonders of the Invisible World - Isobel Gowdie - Matthew Hopkins - Olaus Wormius - Eikon Basilike
Emile Nelligan - Rémy de Gourmont - Albert Giraud - Emile Verhaeren - Jean Moréas - Stuart Merrill - Renée Vivien - Jean Lorrain - Albert Samain - Nathalie Barney - Gustave Kahn - Symbolism (arts) (much of it) - chanson de geste - Ogier the Dane - Doon de Mayence - Bayard - Paul Adam - Reynard - Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym - Léon Bloy
[edit] Other literature:
prose poetry - Pamela Colman Smith - Jan Toorop - degenerate art (large addition) - Cesare Lombroso - Max Nordau - Spenserian stanza - Conrad Aiken - Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Harry Crosby - Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock - Grand Guignol (most of it) - Hammer horror - Russ Meyer - ribaldry - Homeric hymns - The Omen - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Aubrey Beardsley - Austin Osman Spare - goliard - Archpoet - Peter of Blois - Walter of Châtillon - alliterative verse - Félicien Rops - Georgia O'Keeffe - Bram Dijkstra - Sir Orfeo - Invictus - Venantius Fortunatus - Schopenhauer's aesthetics - art for art's sake - Elizabeth Siddal - June and Jennifer Gibbons - Sotades - This Be The Verse - Carlos Schwabe - The City of Dreadful Night - airport novel - Julia A. Moore - Bernard of Cluny - Ysengrimus
Psychedelic music (list) - Roky Erickson - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - riff - Guillaume de Machaut - motet (most of it) - Babatunde Olatunji - Llibre Vermell de Montserrat - Marquee Moon - Stagger Lee - Thomas of Celæno - Dies Iræ - Mass (music) - requiem - vespers - Magnificat - Lyke-Wake Dirge
Psychedelia - melodrama - The Little Engine That Could - Underdog - Jonny Quest - He-Man - Hercules (comics) - Ballantine - anti-intellectualism - peplum - legend tripping - La Llorona - Mike Fink - Lydia Cabrera - faxlore - Billy Jack - Moment of Truth Movie - sword and sandal - The Sons of Hercules - John the Conqueroo - Prince Charming - Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS - men's adventure magazine - Kirby dots - rabbit's foot - Bad Girl Art - Margaret Brundage - weather house - The Greening of America
[edit] Religious topics:
vicar - priesthood of all believers - atonement (now at sin) - scapegoat - Sadducee - Saint Christopher - civil religion - end times - dispensationalism - Hal Lindsey - Whore of Babylon - Great Apostasy (Calvinism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism) - Ten Commandments (Protestant section) - Cyrus I. Scofield - Scofield Reference Bible - imperial cult - pow-wow - John George Hohman - divine grace - Magi - Gog - Quanta Cura - Syllabus Errorum - Thérèse de Lisieux - megachurch - Maria Monk - righteousness - List of names for the Biblical nameless - prelate - Oahspe - Douay Bible - demigod - Vetus Latina - Port-Royal - Oholah - ecclesiology - St. Ides - metrical psalter - holy water - holy card - rex Nemorensis - suovitaurilia - regifugium - Christianity and politics
[edit] My morbid tastes:
mourning - decomposition - coffin - requiem - sarcophagus - funeral (large addition) - embalming - memento mori - Et in Arcadia ego - Death (personification) (under that title) - symbols of death - José Guadalupe Posada - shrunken head
[edit] Legal matters:
escheat - intestacy - List of Uniform Acts (United States) - Uniform Commercial Code - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Twelve Tables - pater familias - mortgage - trial by combat - Assize of Clarendon - outlaw - Sir William Blackstone (most of it) - Commentaries on the Laws of England (most of it) - legal positivism - fee simple - fee tail - life estate - legal fiction - posse - small claims court - foreclosure - common scold - Jones Act (workers compensation for seamen) - doctrine of worthier title - testamentary capacity - attestation clause - statute of repose
[edit] Miscellaneous:
Pool of Radiance - Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures - Parker-Hulme Murders - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy - atavism - Monsignor Jozef Tiso - Ara Pacis - toga - quest - Marie Laveau - List of occultists - Joe Hill - List of famous tuberculosis victims - Gogmagog - ouroboros - Gilles de Rais - Maciste - spork - Rexism - femme fatale - damsel in distress - patent medicine - Whig history - A. P. Herbert - here - testimonial - nonsense - chicken sexer - artifact (fantasy) - Sotadic zone - Ring of Gyges - cad - Termagant - Shoe flinging (major changes) - Bartok (game) - Mithridates VI of Pontus - Tarot of Marseilles - Minchiate - Ka-Bala - striking clock - time discipline - Blemmyes - high modernism - Japanese clock - healthism
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The Epic Barnstar |
I hereby award you this Epic Barnstar for your brilliant work on Latin profanity. —Keenan Pepper 02:01, 30 March 2006 (UTC) |
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The Rosetta Barnstar |
For appearing out of nowhere to translate many magical mottoes with precision. Many thanks. SynergeticMaggot 16:09, 4 August 2006 (UTC) |