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MAY 18, 2008 05:06 PM
Narghile said:
SockPuppet said:
Narghile said:
emevolloveme said:
Narghile said:
emevolloveme said:
i don't know if the mermaid necessarily looks like a prostitute...but the logo is just ugly. whoever designed that should be fired.
Why is it ugly? I'd say it is a pretty good representation of a fertility goddess.
i'd say it sort of looks like someone trying to rip themselves in half. she looks awkward and uncomfortable
She has two tails, and it's rather hard to fit inside a circle if you are linear, isn't it? 
Ouroboros?
Aye, but the ourobouros idea was invented before the thought that the word was spherical. It would not be biting its own tail if it merely spiraled around the earth, now would it?
Um, linear vs spherical ^
And, yes it would. The world just had to be flat and round, i.e. disc-shaped.
MAY 18, 2008 06:59 PM
SockPuppet said:
Narghile said:
SockPuppet said:
Narghile said:
emevolloveme said:
Narghile said:
emevolloveme said:
i don't know if the mermaid necessarily looks like a prostitute...but the logo is just ugly. whoever designed that should be fired.
Why is it ugly? I'd say it is a pretty good representation of a fertility goddess.
i'd say it sort of looks like someone trying to rip themselves in half. she looks awkward and uncomfortable
She has two tails, and it's rather hard to fit inside a circle if you are linear, isn't it?
Ouroboros?
Aye, but the ourobouros idea was invented before the thought that the word was spherical. It would not be biting its own tail if it merely spiraled around the earth, now would it?
Um, linear vs spherical ^
And, yes it would. The world just had to be flat and round, i.e. disc-shaped.
I acknowledged that the world was once thought to be flat and round. I don't see where your confusion is.
MAY 19, 2008 08:37 AM
Narghile said:
SockPuppet said:
Narghile said:
SockPuppet said:
Narghile said:
emevolloveme said:
Narghile said:
emevolloveme said:
i don't know if the mermaid necessarily looks like a prostitute...but the logo is just ugly. whoever designed that should be fired.
Why is it ugly? I'd say it is a pretty good representation of a fertility goddess.
i'd say it sort of looks like someone trying to rip themselves in half. she looks awkward and uncomfortable
She has two tails, and it's rather hard to fit inside a circle if you are linear, isn't it?
Ouroboros?
Aye, but the ourobouros idea was invented before the thought that the word was spherical. It would not be biting its own tail if it merely spiraled around the earth, now would it?
Um, linear vs spherical ^
And, yes it would. The world just had to be flat and round, i.e. disc-shaped.
I acknowledged that the world was once thought to be flat and round. I don't see where your confusion is.
Paint a snake along the rim of a frisbee. Tail, meet head.
MAY 19, 2008 06:54 PM
Chainlink said:
Necia said:
That 911 story sucks, but it turned out way better for that woman than it did for this one.
Wow 
Sounds like the Public Safety Communications Director needs some discipline.
What an asshat.
Wow!!! I've got the perfect cartoon "under the glass" on top of my toolbox to post on this...everyone will have to wait, though...not going back to work again tonight...
MAY 22, 2008 05:19 AM
RudieCantFail said:
ardour said:
DropkickWilly said:
just wanted to say it is spelled Yusifiyah, not Youssifiyah. i am currently deployed there about 8k from where it happened, and i was about 500 meters away when it happened. needless to say.........not a pretty site, and it outraged me that it happened. 
Well, I don't think there's really a "correct" way to spell it using the Latin alphabet, as that's not its origin. This is one of the reasons why there's so much confusion with terrorist watch lists and stuff, as there's no consistant spelling of terrorist names and groups. I could be wrong, it's just something I've always assumed.
That's accurate. There is no consistent Romanization of the Arabic alphabet, and it is one of the big problems with the Terrorist Watch List.
All of you are right - there's no official, globally-accepted transliteration of Arabic to English, but the US military does have a standardized transliteration guide that we all use (to facilitate information flow). According to that transliteration guide, it's spelled as DropkickWilly said: Yusifiyah.
MisterLinguist
Birmingham, AL
October 2005
MAY 18, 2008 05:02 PM