Day: December 1, 2006

Found at The Random Yak: the “Things I’ve Eaten on the BBC’s List of Things I Should Eat Before I Die” blogosphere meme pool game, based on the BBC’s list of “50 Foods to Eat Before You Die.”

The game? Copy the text below into a plain text editor, remove any comments I’ve appended, then paste the list into a post, BOLDING items you have eaten. Then, changing the Random Yak’s meme game a bit, link to this post and the Random Yak’s post. If you find this somewhere else, add their post in linkage, as well. Oh, cut it off after you’ve reached four blogs or so back.

Kinda like this:

The Random Yak
Third World County
Blog X
Blog Y
(Your Blogpost permalink and TB if you wish)

Something like that kinda structure gives folks an easy (lazy man’s) shirtsleeve way to track the game’s spread.

So, cutting my yabber off,

Things I’ve Eaten on the BBC’s List of Things I Should Eat Before I Die

1. Fresh fish

2. Lobster

3. Steak

Continue reading “50 Foods meme pool game”

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While leafing through an old Lutheran hymnal, legacy of my wife’s family, I happened across the second Sunday in Advent featuring the following:

No, the old hymnal didn’t have an embedded mp3 file, silly. It had the following words set to the tune above, words you are likely familiar with:

O come, O come, Emmanuel,
And ransom captive Israel,
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Wisdom from on high,
Who orderest all things mightily;
To us the path of knowledge show,
And teach us in her ways to go.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan’s tyranny;
From depths of hell Thy people save,
And give them victory over the grave.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here;
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night,
And death’s dark shadows put to flight.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, O come, great Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes on Sinai’s height
In ancient times once gave the law
In cloud and majesty and awe.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Root of Jesse’s tree,
An ensign of Thy people be;
Before Thee rulers silent fall;
All peoples on Thy mercy call.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Desire of nations, bind
In one the hearts of all mankind;
Bid Thou our sad divisions cease,
And be Thyself our King of Peace.

Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.

And in an even older tongue, transliterated for use in English: maranatha!