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A nice FLAIR (FLuid Attenuated Inversion Recovery) view from the not-too-distant past. Every abnormality you can see on this scan (and there is more than one!) is asymptomatic at present. Alongside is a picture of me walking the walls at Fremont Studios, a sign of a damaged brain.
Maybe I am crazy, but I had no problem parsing this cartooon Heidi posted.
Admittedly, I could be mistaken. :-)
The sentence:
There's only one thing to remember.....you're never too bad to come in......and you're never too good to stay out.
We'll ignore for a moment that there are appaarently two things to remember (or maybe even three if you have to remember that the Rev. Croom can't count, which could be important if you are listening to the Sunday morning sermon and he is moving from thirdly to fourthly!).
Heidi was definitely focused on those next two pieces of the sentence.
To me, the first part is about how there is nothing that you can do that is so awful that you would be shut out. Easy.
Extra, snarky comment: This is obviously a pretty common sentiment that churches would communicate, although I am sure that any kind of situation that has a bit of a dress code (be it temple, church, synagogue, mosque, or meeting house) might cause there to be a bit of silent and not-so-silent judgment if someone came in while wearing a bathing suit or shorts or whatever. And it is hard to believe that if outward signs can make such a difference that inward feelings could not block a person from coming.
And again to me, the second part is about how there is nobody who is so good that they should decide to sleep in and miss showing up.
Extra, snarky comment: A slightly less common sentiment, and one that I think is if anything even less fully believed than the first one. There would not be expressions like Jack mormons or two-day Jews if there was not such a huge contingent of people who do not feel any sense of need to be following all the rules and showing up for every service. I would argue that most people feel that they are good enough that they do not need to go.
Perhaps the sentence would have been more comfortable had it been phrased:
There's only two things to remember.....you're never too bad to come in......and you're never so good that you should stay out.
But then you'd lose that nice rhythm that "to come in" and "to stay out" give us, and after all there is only so much room in a comic strip.
Of course the fact that the Reverend can't count would make me nervous about his sermons. It isn't like Spanish Inquistion that has Monty Python players thinking of new reasons every time they state their immutable principles that requiring them to be muted! :-)
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In a response to my Channel 9 appearance, drloc asked:
Dear Michael, Can ya plz tell ma about Urdu Language Support in Vista and Vista Urdu Localizationz.......... THankz
Well, I have an answer now, and I think there is a pattern developing here.
So looking back at past posts on LIPs:
It is my pleasure to add to the list the Urdu Language Interface Pack!
Some interesting information about the language:
Number of speakers: ~60 million native speakers, ~40 second language speakers Name in the language itself: اردو Urdu is the national language of Pakistan. Although English (the second official language) is widely used in elite circles and Punjabi has more native speakers, Urdu is promoted and expected by the administration to eventually prevail in Pakistan. It is taught as a compulsory language up to high school and has started becoming the lingua franca. Urdu is also spoken in India and has official language status in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, and in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.From a strictly linguistic perspective, Urdu and Hindi are two standard forms of one language rather than two different languages (This phenomenon is referred to as a "diasystem" and known from language groups like Persian/Dari/Tajik, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (formerly known as Serbo-Croatian), Danish/Norwegian or Malay/Indonesian. The issue is, of course, politically highly charged, and speakers of these languages normally consider them as distinct languages). Urdu has been borrowing more from Persian, while Hindi has been using Sanskrit to extend its vocabulary, and both are written in different scripts.Fun facts: There are large numbers of Urdu speakers outside of South Asia in countries with Urdu workers or immigrants: The United States, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom each have between 350,000 and 400,000 speakers. The language name Urdu is related to the English word horde: Urdu started to develop under the Muslim courts which ruled South Asia from the early 13th century. The rulers, the Moghuls, originally spoke Turkish. Their word ordu, meaning tent or army, was eventually used for the language of the army - which became modern Urdu. Classification: Urdu is an Indo-European language. Script:Urdu is written with an extended Persian script (which is an extended Arabic alphabet).
Number of speakers: ~60 million native speakers, ~40 second language speakers Name in the language itself: اردو Urdu is the national language of Pakistan. Although English (the second official language) is widely used in elite circles and Punjabi has more native speakers, Urdu is promoted and expected by the administration to eventually prevail in Pakistan. It is taught as a compulsory language up to high school and has started becoming the lingua franca. Urdu is also spoken in India and has official language status in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, and in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.From a strictly linguistic perspective, Urdu and Hindi are two standard forms of one language rather than two different languages (This phenomenon is referred to as a "diasystem" and known from language groups like Persian/Dari/Tajik, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (formerly known as Serbo-Croatian), Danish/Norwegian or Malay/Indonesian. The issue is, of course, politically highly charged, and speakers of these languages normally consider them as distinct languages). Urdu has been borrowing more from Persian, while Hindi has been using Sanskrit to extend its vocabulary, and both are written in different scripts.Fun facts:
Classification: Urdu is an Indo-European language.
Script:Urdu is written with an extended Persian script (which is an extended Arabic alphabet).
So, drloc and everyone, Enjoy!
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