What if we petite? What if we winsome? Well, winsome, lose some.

I haven’t had coffee yet.

Not true! We nutrooters are well aware that there are so many sane members of the Waco community and environs.

And I, too, occasionally find myself saying “I will not buy this tobacconist, it is scratched” in a faux-Hungarian accent. Some things just never lose their funny.

*cough*

Anyway:
elocutionary – Adj.
1. elocutionary – of or relating to elocution; “elocutionary recitals”
2. elocutionary – (used of style of speaking) overly embellished; “an elocutionary Oxonian delivery”
affected, unnatural – speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

How much you want to bet this guy DIDN’T look that word up before using it? Seems to fit his entire diatribe eloquently.

I did some searching and while the WacoTrib article has been pulled (you can purchase a copy for $2.50 though) I was able to find a copy of the WacoTrib article but I am still unsure if Nye was disrespectful or not.

‘The Science Guy’ is entertaining and provocative at MCC lecture

Thursday, April 06, 2006

By Tim Woods

Tribune-Herald staff writer

Audience members who expected to see Bill Nye “The Science Guy” conduct experiments and wow their children received quite a surprise Wednesday when Nye spoke at McLennan Community College.

Nye instead addressed such topics as Mars exploration, global warming and energy consumption, particularly oil and gas. He even ruffled a few religious feathers along the way.

The scientist with a background in stand-up and sketch comedy kept spectators interested, entertained and at ease with his funny, sometimes hilarious, delivery.

Speaking as part of MCC’s Distinguished Lecturer Series, Nye spoke to two audiences, one at 1:30 p.m. and the second at 7 p.m., of about 600 each. He said the first audience, though littered with young children listening to some rather adult scientific topics, “was very supportive.”

The second group also was rapt from the beginning, greeting the scientist with a raucous standing ovation upon his introduction.

“You haven’t heard the presentation yet!” Nye told them.

Opening with a discussion of Mars and his hopes for further discovery on the neighboring planet, Nye encouraged the audience to take interest in discovery and “change the world,” a mantra he repeated throughout.

Nye indicated that the presence of water in Mars’ atmosphere — evidenced by the planet’s ability to form frost — leads him to believe that there is a strong possibility that the planet once supported life.

The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”

He pointed out that the sun, the “greater light,” is but one of countless stars and that the “lesser light” is the moon, which really is not a light at all, rather a reflector of light.

A number of audience members left the room at that point, visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence.

“We believe in a God!” exclaimed one woman as she left the room with three young children.

Nye also was critical of what he said was governmental agencies’ lack of action, even lack of understanding, in protecting the Earth from global warming and wasted resources.

Nye’s educational science show won 28 Emmy awards during its television run from 1992-98.

It seemed most in attendance were pleased to hear Nye speak, and some were even awed by the presence of a childhood icon.

“How cool is that, to be face to face with the man, Bill Nye?” said Jared McClure, who worked sound and video for the event. “And he’s funny, too.”

Some people claim that no one today really believes in the Bible so literally as to think that the moon gives off its own light. No one could be that ignorant. Oh ye of little faith!

Christian Apologetics Forums

The bible is correct. The sun ‘excites’ the surface of the moon much like a ‘glow in the dark’ toy is excited by light, which then glows by itself for a few moments. The moon does the same thing by making the sunlight its own light for that millisecond. What we see is the moon ‘glowing’, not really ‘reflecting’. That’s why the term ‘moonglow’ is frequently heard. Thus the moon becomes an independant light even though it was ‘excited’ by the sun. There is much more meaning to the relationship of the sun and moon that supports my supposition. This may help explain it:

Consider that the sun is the husband, and the moon is his wife. If the husband gives the wife money to care for the household and tells her to spend it any way she sees fit, is it still his money, or is it now hers?

There are several metaphorical meanings regarding the sun and moon. One is that the moon will rule in the absence of the sun, but that rule is facilitated by the sun. In other words the wife will rule the household in the (temporary) absence of the husband, whose resources facilitate her power to rule. The temporary transfer of authority is just that; a transfer of power (in this case light) from one to the other, and then to the family.

So the light, originating in the sun, is transferred to the moon, and is then transferred to the earth. Question answered, problem solved.

heh, indeed.

Loosing, as in making loose, or losing as in not winning? I imagine Mr. Huston here is one of those trolls who write “get a life, looser!” when he’s trying to insult you.

Actually, it’s translated from the original German’s.

I thought it sounded like it was machine translated from Chinese(’s).

So, just for fun, I ran it through Google translate and got:

????,?8?8????,????????,?????????????????,?3900???.

Which if you translate it back to English reads:

“What was funny was, in its August 8 story, so badly missed its target, and an inspiring display can not distinguish reality from the 3900 novel”

which curiously makes a little more sense than the original, if only because the the computer seems to be familiar with comma’s.

“It is hilarious in that their August 8th story so badly missed its target as well as instructive for its display of an utter inability to discern reality from their favored fiction.”

Actually, it’s translated from the original German’s.

Slim Tyranny said,

August 24, 2007 at 4:41

One last one, can’t resist. Here’s his deep thoughts on 9/11:

http://www.publiusforum.com/hustonhitem.html

Sadly, he did not have a dictionary handy to learn the difference between “aisle” and “isle.”

Oh, plus he’s an insane fucker. How’s this for moral authority:

“And last we must not allow our compassion for the innocence of those common Muslim men and women in countries whose governments harbor these terrorists organizations keep us from responding with quick, massive military air strikes against them. For if we demure, we tacitly approve of the common folks in those countries who are permitting their governments to harbor and sponsor such acts of infamy.”

Seriously, an insane fucker.
Damn son,he bitch slapped that sentence into submission!!I mean it borders on being some kind of DaDaist composition and shit.

August 24, 2007 at 4:38

“My guess? College level only, nothing of a grad school nature”

see how elietist you liberals are?
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I certainly hope us “elietes” set the bar higher than being able to spell “its” correctly.

Gauche, you have a blog? Can I see it? You must be really smart.

Also:

Shit, gauche damn, get off your ass and jam.

To whom?

If you can show me anywhere where WTH shows a lick of common sense, maybe we can have a discussion.

Heck, let’s not just pick on WTH, show me anybody in the upper levels of the Executive Branch with any common sense whatsoever.

Oh, wait, is this one of those deals where the wingnuts have made up new meanings for old phrases, and “common sense” now means “whatever Rush Limbaugh said today”?

August 24, 2007 at 4:38

“My guess? College level only, nothing of a grad school nature”

see how elietist you liberals are? nobody in the heartland buys your BDS or cares about the difference in degrees, common sense matters more.
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Sarcasm? I can’t even tell.

Gauche, you have a blog? Can I see it? You must be really smart.