Comments on: A Typo of Biblical Proportions

By: cfukara

cfukara — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:08:10 +0000

" .. of Biblical Proportions"
I winder:
Is that supposed to be less evil than that 'of Bhagavad-Gita proportions'

By: Elvis Elvisberg

Elvis Elvisberg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:43:27 +0000

Thanks for the reply, Michael! I was trying to further the discussion, but that was rather a Colbertesque way to do so...

By: jayackroyd

jayackroyd — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:46:04 +0000

Too many typos. But I don't have preview, so that's an excuse.

By: jayackroyd

jayackroyd — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:44:41 +0000

Hahahaha.
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This stuff kills me. Getting the details of things that aren't true, or real, but have been written down, right.
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It was like reading the piece in the WSJ over the weekend about the guy in Germany who was questioning the existence of an actual guy named Mohamed. Some other academic guy noted that the evidence for an actual guy named Jesus was a heckuva lot more tenuous, so the Mohamed thing was looking pretty good to him.
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Low bar, I said to myself. And it doesn't matter, really, because there are any number of details, like God coming down and dictating the thing to him that is obviously not true. There are so many details attributed to the figure that are clearly false that it doesn't really matter if the guy was a guy or is a composite of a guy, or whether there is some guy that one could generally say was the guy to whom (thanks KO, caught that trialing preposition) they attribute all this not true stuff.
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And then I mentioned this to someone else, and SHE said "Low bar on the Jesus thing? Where's the God evidence? Any of it?"

By: michaelscherer

michaelscherer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:41:51 +0000

Elvis, The bible. Truth be told, though, I have never finished reading either one. I did just finish reading James Crumley's hippie noir masterpiece, a dark mess of a great read, called The Last Good Kiss. I recommend it to all, with the full expectation that some commenter will find in it more evidence of my (mythical) affection for John McCain. Ha.

By: Elvis Elvisberg

Elvis Elvisberg — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:32:24 +0000

MS, which book do you think has greater literary merit and moral weight? The Bible, or Infinite Jest?

By: Andy from MA

Andy from MA — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:44:28 +0000

I was just curious, that photo has been there forever, MS. I know it's not an endorsement.

By: michaelscherer

michaelscherer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:26:09 +0000

Yes, it's a Huckabee poster. That photo was taken by a Time photographer when I was covering Huckabee in New Hampshire. It's not an endorsement.

By: Andy from MA

Andy from MA — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:05:10 +0000

MS in your photo in the sidebar: is that a Huckabee campaign poster in the background? Why is it there?

By: michaelscherer

michaelscherer — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:57:37 +0000

thou (a typo that has since been corrected in this post) was my fault. Naaman is Huckabee's fault, and harder to fix, since the books have already been printed.