User: Ihcoyc

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Have you ever looked at your hand? I mean, really looked?

Good evening. I'm IHCOYC, a handle I have been using on Usenet since around 1995, and on BBSs since maybe 1984. The handle deserves an explanation. There was a Commodore 64 BBS back then that ran homebrewed software that displayed data in ALL CAPS. When choosing a handle to use there, I was momentarily moved to call myself IHCOYC XPICTOC (that is, IHΣOYΣ XPIΣTOΣ) to see if anyone got the joke. If you wonder what it stands for, think Greek. On a recent caprice, I have recently changed my handle here to "Smerdis of Tlön." Later, I was one of the operators of the Microdot BBS that operated in southern Indiana from 1985 to 1999. I still miss the BBSes.

My real name is Steve Gustafson. I practice law in New Albany, Indiana. My interests include Indo-European, Germanic, and Latin linguistics, nineteenth century French literature, the English Civil War, the Reformation, the 1600s. I am a proud member of the empty set, and a thorough and methodical pessimist.

I am neither the captain of my fate, nor the master of my soul. And I have no interest in filling the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

My personal home page, which deals mostly with Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures, is The Black Altar of Yezukriis.

The party hasn't started until Schopenhauer gets there!

Contents

1 Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia

2 Articles I am guilty of

2.1 Language and peoples:
2.2 Seventeenth century stuff:
2.3 French literature
2.4 Other art and literature:
2.5 American folklore and popular culture
2.6 Religious topics:
2.7 My morbid tastes:
2.8 Legal matters:
2.9 Miscellaneous:
2.10 Projects / To do list:

Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia

It is said of the angel of death that he is full of eyes.

(Thou) is used in solemn ritual occasions, in readings from the King James Bible, in Shakespeare, in starchily formal literary compositions that seek to evoke the solemn emotions called forth by these antecedents, and otherwise to address lofty persons like God, Achilles, or the Mighty Thor.

From Punch and Judy: Featuring, as it does, a deformed, child-murdering, wife-beating psychopath, who performs appalling acts of violence and cruelty upon all those around him and escapes scot-free, it is greatly enjoyed by small children.

Interest in the Holy Foreskins has been specifically downplayed, with the observation in 1900 that these particular relics encouraged irreverent curiosity.

Although most timpanists only have two hands, it is possible to play more than two timpani at once.

From B,C,K,W System: in the context to recover [GKL], leave I without defining it: so, beware!.

Wenn Prinz Adam sein Zauberschwert in die Luft streckt und die Zauberformel: "Bei der Macht von Grayskull!" ausruft, verwandelt er sich in He-Man, den stärksten Mann des Universums.

The majority (of snakebite victims in the United States) are inebriated men, frequently unemployed, and almost universally tattooed.

Attempts at using vacuum cleaner base units for (penis enlargement) have resulted in severe damage when the fan of the vacuum cleaner is contacted.

As the song progresses, many of the other crucifixion victims . . . begin to dance in a very limited way

Galileo made the same point, but said very little on the matter, perhaps not wishing to be burned at the stake.

. . . the Vombatiformes (which is the Latin for "wombat-shaped things").

From Folklore of the United States: Though Christopher Columbus did not participate in the founding of the American government. . .

This term should not be confused with an act of war waged by Smurf cartoon characters.

Articles I am guilty of

Immanuel Kant says: Drink Coca-Cola! It's the Thing In Itself!

Projects / To do list:

The stock character pages: I want there to be a page on each one, with illustrations and examples.
I mean to do an article for every word on Wikipedia:Common words, searching for which is not possible. It is my conviction that all of the grammatical particles of English are interesting and idiomatic enough, and raise issues of usage, esp. for non-native speakers, to warrant articles for themselves that go beyond mere dictionary definitions.

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User: Ihcoyc

Favourite quotes from the Wikipedia

Articles I am guilty of

Language and peoples:

Seventeenth century stuff:

French literature

Other art and literature:

American folklore and popular culture

Religious topics:

My morbid tastes:

Legal matters:

Miscellaneous:

Projects / To do list:

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