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We're on a roll this week with eleven.
Today's AWAD "hendecasyllabic " is really an "X-Bonus". Pls scroll down: The AWAD for Day 1 is:A crapshooter hopes to roll "seven" But he can also win with "Yo-leven". Eleven years, you'll throw To win "Yo" in a row. It's called undecennary heaven. How Craps WorksHow to call "11"; "Yo" or "Yo-leven" so it isn't mistaken for the "seven".Because the 7 has the greatest number of combinations (six), it is the number that has the potential to come up most often, which is why 7 is the magic number in craps. For 3 and 11, the odds are 17 to 1 and are paid off at 15 to 1, giving the house an edge of 16.67 percent.http://stuffo.howstuffworks.com/craps7.htm
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"Yo" Curse
There's one way to make "Yo-leven":
Six plus five adds up to eleven.
It's just as hard to make verse
As to beat the "Yo" curse
Without using "seven" or "heaven".
I don't think I can think of five different ways to make "11" limericks this week. I could come up "snake eyes" tomorrow.
So I'm posting this excuse today. :)
Note: "Yo" is short for "Yo-leven" which is shooters' talk for "Eleven".
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from wwh [Dr. Bill]:
'Elevenses' I have seen for Brit morning snack.
Thanks, Dr. Bill. :)
Elevenses is the AWAD for Day 2 so I've made it into a separate post - below.
Hey, Dr. Bill. You're on a roll. Do you think you can come up with Anu's "11" AWAD for tomorrow? There's 3 days left in the week so I'll give you 3:1 odds. :)
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Tea or coffee along with a snack
Will fend off a luncheon attack.
So drop your defenses
Go out for elevenses
It'll be lunchtime by the time you get back.
American Heritage Dictionary: elevenses
PLURAL NOUN: "Chiefly British Tea or coffee taken at midmorning and often accompanied by a snack."
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What has a front and obverse Eleven-sided, it'll fit in a purse? Hendecagon it is And handy for biz. It's a Loonie you can trade at a bourse. Merriam-Webster Dictionary: bourse noun Etymology: Middle French, literally, purse, from Medieval Latin bursa -- more at PURSE 1 : EXCHANGE 5a; specifically : a European stock exchange 2 : a sale of numismatic or philatelic items on tables (as at a convention) The Canadian dollar coin, nicknamed Loonie, is a hendecagon. per Anu http://mint.ca/en/catalogue/3dview/loon.htmDictionary.com: obverse n. The side of a coin, medal, or badge that bears the principal stamp or design.
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Funny how nothing gets done
Until the 10th hour has run.
The eleventh hour
Is the power hour
When everyone's under the gun.
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From wwh [Dr. Bill]
Preamble: Anu explains in his AWAD today that "eleventh hour", meaning "the last moment", comes from:
From the parable in the Bible where laborers hired at the eleventh hour of the twelve-hour workday were paid the same as those hired earlier.
From Dr Bill:
And it occurred to me that I did not know etymology of
'parable', so looked it up in online etymology dictionary:
parable c.1325, "saying or story in which something is expressed in terms of something else," from O.Fr. parable, from L. parabola "comparison," from Gk. parabole "a comparison, parable," lit. "a throwing beside," from para-"alongside" + bole "a throwing, casting," related to ballein "to throw." Replaced O.E. bispell. In V.L. parabola took on the meaning "word," hence It. parlare, Fr. parler "to speak."
Interesting that O.E.'bispell' disappeared, while German still has 'Beispiel' = example.
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re "related to ballein 'to throw.' Replaced O.E. bispell." ... Interesting that O.E.'bispell' disappeared, while German still has 'Beispiel' = example.
Hey, Dr. Bill: A "parable" is certainly an "example".
Your [typically] astute observation prompted me to wonder if there is a connection between our english word "spiel" [see definition below] and the "spiel" in "glockenspiel", and also in "beispiel".
It's easy to see the connection between a "spiel" and bells playing [see definition of "glockenspiel", also below].
But the connection with "Biespiel" is less obvious. Maybe[?], if we go back to where "biespiel" came from, we have our answer: Your definition: "related to ballein 'to throw.' Replaced O.E. bispell."
There is an element of "throwing" in "spiel", wouldn't you say? Throwing a spiel is like pitching a line.
We can also find a connection between our english word "spiel" and "parable" if we go back to the German roots of "spiel" - German, play in definition below.
First, let's compare a "play", in the sense of a "stage play", with a parable. Both tell a story. And a "stage play", like Shaw's "Major Barbara", can be allegorical, just like a parable.
And there is also a trace of light-hearted "play" in parable. A parable is wisdom play-acting as an entertaining story.
You could say a parable is 'playful' on the surface, but deep underneath ... just like the parable Anu gave us in today's AWAD "eleventh hour".
From Dictionary.com: glockenspiel
The glockenspiel (German, "play of bells", also known as orchestra bells and, in its portable form, lyra) is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It is similar to the xylophone, in that it has tuned bars laid out in a fashion resembling a piano keyboard. The xylophone's bars are wooden, while the glockenspiel's are metal.
Dictionary.com: spiel Informal n.
A lengthy or extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
intr. & tr.v. spieled, spiel·ing, spiels
To talk or say (something) at length or extravagantly.
[German, play, or Yiddish shpil, both from Middle High German spil, from Old High German.]
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What does the parable of the "eleventh hour" mean?Dr. Bill. I apologize for making this a separate post, but the preceding post was getting pretty lengthy. And this post pursues an entirely different line of research connected to today's AWAD "eleventh hour" [which, as Anu's AWAD explains, comes from a parable]. The "eleventh hour" parable is new to me. But your inquiry into the derivation of "parable" got me thinking: "What does the parable of the "eleventh hour" mean?" I think its meaning is pretty interesting when you dig into it, especially when you consider when this parable arrived, from 'above', so to speak, in the context of what is going on 'below', here in AWADtalk. Maybe it's just coincidence that Anu sent us this parable today ... or maybe it isn't. Only Anu really knows.
XXV. Parable of the Laborers Who Received the Same Wages
This parable, which some Church writers call the parable "of the husbandmen called to work at various times of the day", we find in the Gospel according to Matthew.
The "penny" ["denarius" in Greek] is the recompense of eternal beatitude in heaven. Those who came early in the morning and those who came late received the same remuneration. This very much grieved those who came early and they began to murmur against the owner. Here human, formal fairness wants to set itself up against divine compassion and love.
The husbandmen would not have begun to murmur against the owner if he had given to the "last" less than one denarius, that is, a sum insufficient for a day's sustenance. They had no business with those who had come "last"; in their souls there appeared envy, unfriendliness and condemnation of the owner's supposedly unfair compassion, which hurt their pride. How could he make those who were called "first" equal to those who came "last".
The elder brother in the parable of the prodigal son also spoke in a like manner: Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: but as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf (Luke 15:2930).
This whole gamut of morally insignificant feelings, which gripped the "first" (and the elder son of the parable), already, in essence, undermined the quality of their labor in the Lord's field. After all, one can work even a whole day in a bad mood and still not do anything good; but in "one hour", one can do more and better if the work is performed with full diligence, love for the work and trust in the owner.
The husbandmen's appraisal proved to be formal, while the owner's was spiritual and moral. And according to this appraisal, the "last" became "first", and the "first" "last", and, perhaps, were even completely deprived of participation in the Kingdom of Heaven. For, Christ added, many be called, but few chosen (Matthew 20:116).
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Sometimes the best thing about Anu's AWAD is his "X Bonus". We have to go to some trouble to find it at the very bottom of his message every day, but it's usually worth the trouble. [You have to dig for some of Anu's gems. Like buried treasure. :) ]
There is no limerick I could possibly write about "hendecasyllabic" which would not look foolish and shallow in the shadow of Anu's "X-Bonus" today --- so I won't try.
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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From Dr. Bill [wwh]:For a short time, Armistice Day was eleventh day of eleventh month, and called for a moment of silence at eleven AM. Here's a link about it. http://www.patriotism.org/veterans_day
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Dr. Bill: I see that "Armistice Day" is now called "Veterans' Day". We call it "Remembrance Day" in Canada, also celebrated on November 11th. I wasn't sure what "armistice" means. It isn't the end of a war, as I thought. It is only a truce or a cease-fire *. Veterans' Day (formerly Armistice Day)
"November 11 is the anniversary of the Armistice which was signed in the Forest of Compiegne by the Allies and the Germans" on November 11, 1918.
http://www.patriotism.org/veterans_day
Here is an "armistice" limerick to close the week. A "cease-fire" always inspires hope.
An armistice is a cease-fire
A truce which, alas, will expire
If one side fights
For basic rights
And the other disdains that desire.
* Dictionary.com: 2 entries found for Armistice
n: a temporary cessation of fighting by mutual consent; a truce
n: a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms [syn: cease-fire, truce]
[French, from New Latin armistitium : Latin arma, arms; see arm2 + Latin -stitium, a stopping; see st- in Indo-European Roots.]
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