Congratulations to DOCTOR STEUSS for achieving godhood!

[_Moniker]

No, you're not playing the game correctly. Try again! How about this:

??? Don't you mean pedant?

I don't get it. How does cksalmon's sentence make any sense of it reads, "I just wish you'd have released the album before your pedant into heaven?"

I wasn't trying to make sense. I was being sillllly. And making fun of myself.. and well... it's just not as much fun when I have to explain my frivolity. Just let me be. :)

[_KimberlyAnn]

Good grief. Don't you people know that in a religious sense assumption means being taken into heaven? :P

I have to look up lots of words Chris uses, but not this one!

Here's Dictionary.com's definition of assumption:

as·sump·tion /əˈsʌmpʃən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[uh-suhmp-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption.
2. the act of taking for granted or supposing.
3. the act of taking to or upon oneself.
4. the act of taking possession of something: the assumption of power.
5. arrogance; presumption.
6. the taking over of another's debts or obligations.
7. Ecclesiastical.
a. (often initial capital letter) the bodily taking up into heaven of the Virgin Mary.
b. (initial capital letter) a feast commemorating this, celebrated on August 15.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME assumpcioun, assompcioun, assumsion < L assūmptiōn- (s. of assūmptiō), equiv. to assūmpt(us) taken up (ptp. of assūmere; see assume) + -iōn- -ion]

—Synonyms 1, 2. presupposition. 1. hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory. 3. presumption. 5. effrontery, forwardness.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)

KA

[_Moniker]

Good grief. Don't you people know that in a religious sense assumption means being taken into heaven? :P

"you people"? I, for one, was just enjoying the rare opportunity to correct Shades' spelling. The rest was trivial. ;)


And now I'm probably gonna get my comeuppance.

[_cksalmon]

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about what happens to newly-styled gods here on MDB, but, all things being equal, I think "assumption" (meaning, per OED, "The action of receiving up into heaven; ascent to or reception into heaven") is probably what I was after here.

Chris

PS. If you actually care about this distinction, you need to go to bed.

[_Moniker]

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about what happens to newly-styled gods here on MDB, but, all things being equal, I think "assumption" (meaning, per OED, "The action of receiving up into heaven; ascent to or reception into heaven") is probably what I was after here.

Chris

PS. If you actually care about this distinction, you need to go to bed.

I don't care. Yet, I do need to go to bed. No doubt.

[_Doctor Steuss]

I just wish you'd have released the album before your assumption into heaven.

??? Don't you mean ascention into heaven?

Don't you all mean consumption?

Thank you all. Perhaps I will give a speech, perhaps not. As a side note, it's interesting becoming a "god" when I have yet to have posted anything resembling a meaningful contribution to a thread.

[_moksha]

As a side note, it's interesting becoming a "god" when I have yet to have posted anything resembling a meaningful contribution to a thread.

Hey, it's a numbers sort of thing. Otherwise many of us would still be sunbeams.

[Reflexzero]

As it is Friday night, and I am armed with a Wi-Fi connection here at the bar while waiting for my friend to get off work (and I have no desire to talk to the "daddy-didn't-love-me" skinfest that is trolling to know what it's like to cuddle with a burly Marmen), I figure now is a good time to give my "speech." So, ladies and gentlemen, I present my "speech" which will offend some, will put others to sleep, and will most likely not be read by anyone:

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Retribution for the Prostitution of our Consitution… Or: Where’s a Pimp When You Need One

**General disclaimer: The author neither claims nor disclaims the acclimations of assassinations carried out by Parody ninjas. Tongue-in-cheek is the salt of the earth, and sarcasm is the pepper. Sarcasm is also a tool and not a weapon. Those who use it as a weapon are usually tools… I am a hammer**

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Blood, sweat and tears. There was a time when the “Spinning Wheel” wasn’t associated with the savants of media-savvy propagandists. But now, it has become the core of capitalism. Reconstruction of destruction was once the task of seven-year-olds with a penchant for impromptu Fourth of July spectaculars featuring Lego and G.I. Joes as essential casualties. Now this task falls upon unctuous CEOs with their legions of lobbyists looking to leach upon the “blood, sweat and tears” of more than an elementary school collaboration of imagination.

Political policy makers are plagued by the perpetual protagonists of peace. “War good, peace bad.” This is the Neanderthalic title of liberty wielded by the contractors of collateral catastrophe. Despite the credence to Darwinian ideals towards a common lineage with primates, the IQ points pontificate upon anything that has a value potentially weighed by deceased presidents adorning federally facilitated wood pulp.

Honor no longer has a place when considering the “bottom line.” Our nation has taken dictators dealing with black-and-white dichotomies and sensationalized the shades of gray. Numbers nominate nationalists when nine-eleven is a nomenclature that rewrites the idiom of “the pen is mightier than the sword” to the new national anthem of “Bin Laden behooves a basic bombing of your Bill of Rights.” Bigotry is a battalion of 17th century Bostonian ideals if applied properly to the rationalism of religious racial profiling. A turban is a time-bomb ticking away towards inevitable totalitarian destruction; for it is this simpleton systematic classification that is essential to the sensationalizing of ethereal effigies of Buddhist historical archeological landmarks.

“If we don’t erase the curse, they will deface everything we hold dear. What is needed here is scorched earth; our Bill of Rights in a hearse, and of course the contractors need to be compensated with a healthy purse. We must remember that nothing is worse than to not ‘stay the course.’”

Only liberals break into hives when faced with the hypothetical lives lost through lies of the non-existent smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud that was most likely dreamt up… by the use of mushrooms.

[_harmony]

Well, I read it. Perhaps I qualify as "no one".

[_Doctor Steuss]

Well, I read it. Perhaps I qualify as "no one".

I am ready to admit when I am wrong, and this most certainly is a case of me being wrong. There are few constants in this world of ours, but I'm fairly certain that one such constant is that you do not qualify as "no one."