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I don’t use the iggy button because I’m too nosey
and a like a good fight because it can be a change from all the Hi’s, Byes and mwaaaahs
but I would’nt moan about it because if it gets too much I know there is an iggy button
You tend to find us old chatters have seen it all before and now its just water off a ducks backI have used the iggy button though when the person gets boring
@rubyred wrote:
sensible my erse :) now what do i win ?
same as what I win if Sarah wins Big Brother :)
exactly what I mean Rubes
I used to get up on a morning, make a cuppa and while i was waking up trawl the boards
Bit like reading morning paper with your first cuppa and a cig
Smile at a lot of the posts and perhaps add my own
Now its like opening that brown envelope that arrived by post
You wonder what its going to bring
or what sly comment one of your own posts has receivedSomeone pmd me the other week saying they hadnt seen me posting for a while
truth is the boards were not *doing it* for me
and left me feeling flat.I read peoples posts and,even if their opinion differs from mine, I take in what they are saying
Some people call that cowardly
its just me though
and I wont change for anyone@P EBBLES LUVS HER D ILDO wrote:
i got mine because of the fact that pebbles cant get a man, so she resorts to using her banana.
Oh, and heres me thinking it was because you are a thicko
@pete wrote:
Peter
Next to Jesus, Peter is probably the most important figure in the New Testament. Roman Catholics revere him as the first pope, and all Christians revere him as Jesus’s number one guy. Most biblical scholars agree that whatever the resurrection was, Peter was probably the first to recognize it and the first to spread the message to other people. If we have Jesus to thank for the message, we have Peter to thank for determining that the message was important enough to pass on after Jesus’s death.
The etymology of Peter’s name is interesting. “Peter,” as most of us familiar with biblical passages will know, was actually a nickname. His birth name was Simon – or, in Aramaic, “Shimon” (pronounced “shee-mone”). However, according to the Gospels, at some point during his ministry, Jesus gave Simon a nickname. Matthew’s gospel says that Jesus decided to call Simon “the rock” because he would be the rock upon which the church was built (thus the Roman Catholic claim to apostolic succession). This is how Simon ended up being called Peter.
The New Testament, despite describing people who were Aramaic-speaking Jews, living in Roman-controlled Palestine, was written entirely in Greek. “Peter,” then, is an English transliteration of the Greek name “Petros.” “Petros,” on the other hand, was a Greek translation of the original Aramaic nickname. In Aramaic, the word for “rock” was “keef” (again, that’s an English spelling…but it shows how the Aramaic word would have been pronounced). Thus, when Jesus decided to call Simon “the rock,” he began calling him Keepha (or Kifa, or Keefa, or any of another dozen ways you could spell it in English). The New Testament, as I said above, was written in Greek. So in a few places, the Greek writers of the New Testament transliterated “Keepha” into Greek, thus calling him “Cephas.” If you’ve ever heard of the name “Cephas” before, and wondered why that was an alternative to Peter’s name, this is why – it was a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic nickname (my grandfather had a brother named Cephas). However, in many places in the New Testament, the writers simply translated (not transliterated) the Aramaic nickname into Greek. Since “petra” is the Greek word for “rock,” they called him Petros, to denote that it was a male name. And then, from “Petros,” we transliterate it into English as “Peter.”
When you look at the etymology of this name, you begin to realize that “Peter” is probably the most nonsensical choice – historically speaking – of names to call this apostle. As illustrated above, it is a transliteration of a Greek translation of an original Aramaic nickname. It would make a lot more sense to simply call him “Petros,” using the translated Greek name that is most often used in the original language of the New Testament, call him “Keepha” in order to stick to the actual Aramaic name, or, at the very least, translate the name from Aramaic directly into English, instead of first going through Greek.
Of course, if we did that, then the father of the Catholic Church, and Jesus’s closest apostle, would be Pope Rocky.
oh and my name is Peter so i lobbed the r off
a simple *my name is Peter* would have sufficed :roll:
I buy scratch cards very occasionally when the mood takes me
same with National Lottery ticketsPebbles has called me worse
Its my badge of honour :)I know I’ve dragged this up from the archives where it belongs
but
just cleaned the cover to the fluorescent light in my kitchen
and Ive found 486 dead flies in it
How do they get there ?
Ive thought of a new flycatcher
a circular fluorescent tube about 6 ” across with a colour co ordinated cover
artistically positioned in a high place
JML could sell it exclusively through Boots, Woolworths and Poundstretchers
I shall email them now
This could make my fortuneI won’t forget you, my friends……..
I wont bother trying to join then :?
I’m with you
