User:Ihcoyc
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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 (http://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki.cgi?If-) 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 (http://members.iglou.com/gustavus).
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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 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
Language and peoples:
Geats - Svear - Metathesis - Propertius - laryngeal theory - augment - vowel stems - irregular verb - lorem ipsum - archaism - thou - period (rhetoric) - alliterative verse - skald - scop - standard language - Old French - indicative mood - ain't - subjunctive mood - negation (grammar) - Wikipedia:English phonetic spelling - English verb - Larry Trask - athematic - ankh - monophthong - Vulgar Latin (much of it) - origin of language - ablative absolute - cadigan
Seventeenth century stuff:
Geneva Bible - Great Bible - Bishops' Bible - Pilgrim's Progress - Joseph Glanvill - Sadducismus Triumphatus - Demon drummer of Tedworth - Jeremy Taylor - Holy Living and Holy Dying - Conventicle Act - penal law - Melancholia (large addition) - Robert Burton - Anatomy of Melancholy - demonology - Thomas Browne - Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial - Divine right of kings (large addition) - Wonders of the Invisible World - Isobel Gowdie - Matthew Hopkins - Olaus Wormius - Eikon Basilike
French literature
Emile Nelligan - Rémy de Gourmont - Albert Giraud - Emile Verhaeren - Jean Moréas - Stuart Merrill - Renée Vivien - Jean Lorrain - Albert Samain - Nathalie Barney - Gustave Kahn - Symbolism (arts) (much of it) - chanson de geste - Ogier the Dane - Doon de Mayence - Bayard - Paul Adam - Reynard - Alexis-Vincent-Charles Berbiguier de Terre-Neuve du Thym
Other art and literature:
prose poetry - Pamela Colman Smith - Jan Toorop - degenerate art (large addition) - Cesare Lombroso - Max Nordau - Psychedelic music (list) - Roky Erickson - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - riff - Spenserian stanza - Conrad Aiken - Silent Snow, Secret Snow - Harry Crosby - Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock - Grand Guignol (most of it) - Hammer horror - Russ Meyer - ribaldry - Homeric hymns - The Omen - Babatunde Olatunji - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Aubrey Beardsley - Austin Osman Spare - goliard - Archpoet - Peter of Blois - Walter of Châtillon - alliterative verse - Félicien Rops - Georgia O'Keeffe - Bram Dijkstra - Sir Orfeo - Invictus - Venantius Fortunatus - Schopenhauer's aesthetics - art for art's sake - Elizabeth Siddal - June and Jennifer Gibbons - Sotades - This Be The Verse - Carlos Schwabe - The City of Dreadful Night - airport novel - Julia A. Moore
American folklore and popular culture
Psychedelia - melodrama - The Little Engine That Could - Underdog - Jonny Quest - He-Man - Hercules (comics) - Marquee Moon - Ballantine - anti-intellectualism - peplum - legend tripping - La Llorona - Mike Fink - Stagger Lee - Lydia Cabrera - faxlore - Billy Jack - Moment of Truth Movie - sword and sandal - The Sons of Hercules - John the Conqueroo - Prince Charming - Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS - men's adventure magazine - Kirby dots - rabbit's foot
Religious topics:
vicar - priesthood of all believers - atonement (now at sin) - scapegoat - Thomas of Celæno - Dies Iræ - Sadducee - requiem - Mass (music) - vespers - Magnificat - civil religion - end times - dispensationalism - Hal Lindsey - Whore of Babylon - Great Apostasy (Calvinism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism) - Ten Commandments (Protestant section) - Cyrus I. Scofield - Scofield Reference Bible - imperial cult - pow-wow - John George Hohman - divine grace - Magi - Gog - Quanta Cura - Syllabus Errorum - Thérèse de Lisieux - megachurch - righteousness - List of names for the Biblical nameless - prelate - Oahspe - Douay Bible - demigod - Vetus Latina - Port-Royal - Oholah - ecclesiology - St. Ides - rex Nemorensis - suovitaurilia
My morbid tastes:
mourning - decomposition - coffin - requiem - sarcophagus - funeral (large addition) - embalming - memento mori - Et in Arcadia ego - Death (personification) (under that title) - symbols of death - José Guadalupe Posada - shrunken head
Legal matters:
escheat - intestacy - List of Uniform Acts (United States) - Uniform Commercial Code - Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - Twelve Tables - pater familias - mortgage - trial by combat - Assize of Clarendon - outlaw - Sir William Blackstone (most of it) - Commentaries on the Laws of England (most of it) - legal positivism - fee simple - fee tail - life estate - legal fiction - posse - small claims court - foreclosure - common scold - Jones Act (workers compensation for seamen)
Miscellaneous:
Pool of Radiance - Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures - Parker-Hulme Murders - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy - atavism - Monsignor Jozef Tiso - Ara Pacis - toga - quest - Marie Laveau - List of occultists - Joe Hill - List of famous tuberculosis victims - Gogmagog - ouroboros - Gilles de Rais - Maciste - spork - Rexism - femme fatale - damsel in distress - patent medicine - Whig history - A. P. Herbert - here - testimonial - nonsense - chicken sexer - artifact (fantasy) - Sotadic zone - Ring of Gyges - cad - Termagant - Shoe flinging (major changes) - Bartok (game) - Mithridates VI of Pontus
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.