What's Latin for "wank"?
I guess you could say that this is from the Jesus fandom. One of the two recent pieces of news out of the Vatican that pissed off most of the planet was that individual priests will be free to celebrate the Tridentine Mass whenever they damn well please. The Tridentine Mass is the Latin service used worldwide by all Catholics from the 16th century until about 1970. The structure of the service itself is different, not just what language it's celebrated in.

(Full disclosure: Yes, I am one of those whackjobs who attends this kind of Mass.)

Well, this has caused such global waves of wank in the press and on the Internets that the entire planet is red and sore by now. I have many examples, but my favorite so far has got to be this innocent-looking article from Indianapolis. All would have been well...if this paper didn't have forums attached to every article.

"A dead language for a dead god. How appropriate," one commenter said oh-so-cleverly. And...they're off! Catholics aren't Christians! Protestants don't understand history! Anyone who believes in God is a fucking moron! Pedophile priests! FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!!!11

I'd pick out highlights, but really...there's too much here.

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threegoldfish
2007-07-19 11:23 am UTC (link)

Oh man, I took Koine at my religious-based undergrad and we had the *exact* same problem with some of my fellow students. And then there would be arguments about how what the prof thought was the correct translation didn't exactly match the King James and I headdesked a lot.

I did really love that class though. Prof was like a absent minded professor archetype and totally hot. Wish I had discovered the classics department sooner. :)

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mummimamma
2007-07-26 07:06 pm UTC (link)

Classics departments have the best parties! Join one now.

the correct translation didn't exactly match the King James
Oh, I feel your (and your professor's) pain! There are some loonies here who swear to the Norwegian translation of KJV - translation^4! *headdesk indeed*

Prof was like a absent minded professor archetype and totally hot.
I'm still working on that one, somehow it works better for men :(

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	threegoldfish 2007-07-26 07:11 pm UTC (link)
	These are people who have never ever played Telephone in their lives. (if you haven't, it's the game where you sit in a circle and someone whispers a sentence to one person and it gets whispered around the circle until the end and you all laugh hysterically at how it gets mangled.) Well, it also helped that he wore a lot of tweed and sounded just like Giles. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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