GMM Season 2! WOOT!---How to Make the Olympics Awesome

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 6, 2012 at 11:06am

@ Uniwolfasaurus ~

Thanks for posting! If you would like to take up the task of setting up the daily post (AND COMMIT TO BE DEDICATED), I can make you a group administrator. Give it some thought and let me know.

@ GMM Fans ~ who will carry the standard if Uniwolfisaurus is not up to the challenge of a daily grind?

The standardized header should be:

GMM Season 2 ~ Episode #1 - - - How to Make the Olympics Awesome
GMM Season 2 ~ Episode #2 - - - Rutabega Soup for Lunch
GMM Season 2 ~ Episode #3 - - - Snorkle vs. Scube - The Great Debate Continues
GMM Season 2 ~ Episode #4 - - - Breaking News! Rhett shaves his head for charity
etc.

Video thumnail (copied from http://www.youtube.com/rhettandlink2) is centered and sized at 500 pixels wide.

Permalink Reply by Lilian Brandon (Tachyonic Raven) on August 6, 2012 at 11:27am

I just want to say that "Snorkel vs Scuba" should totally be a conversation topic for a Friday episode.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 6, 2012 at 11:31am

P.S. - - video thumbnail should also contain a link to the original corresponding GMM episode at the rhettandlink2 vlog series.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 6, 2012 at 11:22am

A cockatrice is a legendary creature, essentially a two-legged dragon with a rooster's head. "An ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans", Laurence Breiner described it. It featured prominently in English thought and myth for centuries. The cockatrice was first described in its current form in the late twelfth century.

The Oxford English Dictionary gives a derivation from Old French cocatris, from medieval Latin calcatrix, a translation of the Greek ichneumon, meaning tracker. The twelfth century legend was based on a reference in Pliny's Natural History that the ichneumon lay in wait for the crocodile to open its jaws for the trochilus bird to enter and pick its teeth clean. An extended description of the cockatriz by the 15th-century Spanish traveler in Egypt, Pedro Tafur, makes it clear that the Nile crocodile is intended.

Its reputed magical abilities include turning people to stone or killing them by either looking at them - - - "the death-darting eye of Cockatrice" - - - touching them, or sometimes breathing on them.

Does the Modern Culture section of this Wiki page now require an additional entry?

I think it does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatrice

Permalink Reply by Phil (Duckbilled Baronyx) on August 6, 2012 at 2:09pm

There's a cockatrice in the excellent fantasy "The Book of the Dun Cow" by Walter Wangerin. If you haven't read it, it's worth your time. I had heard many great things about it before I read it, but I still had to wade into it bit before finding it very exciting. Well, I guess I could point you to my review. Don't mean to self-promote here, but it's a great book.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 6, 2012 at 4:43pm

The Biblical references are doubtless to a serpent, the word "cockatrice," with its medieval implications, having been introduced by the translators of the King James Version to designate the Hebrew Tzepha, or Tsiphoni, a serpent of a highly venomous character,.

Isaiah 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Isaiah 59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Permalink Reply by Earl Kennedy on August 6, 2012 at 4:48pm

GMM Season 2 is PHENOMINAL!!!!! It is exactly what i need to keep my day going and also something to make my fellow co-workers intrigued enough to watch as well. Thank You Rhett and Link for coming back just when we needed you to.