Emily’s NEW positivity and being nice to each other thread

He may have wanted everyone to think he was rubbing his dick. "My, what an enormous cock the Emperor has."
Ah, that makes more sense. Thought you were referring to the story (seems to be apocryphal) that he'd injured his hand in battle and that was why he was often painted with it hidden in his jacket.
 
Ah, that makes more sense. Thought you were referring to the story (seems to be apocryphal) that he'd injured his hand in battle and that was why he was often painted with it hidden in his jacket.
The version I heard a while ago was that it was an artistic style. When he was young, he was often painted in dramatic poses, but as he grew older he wanted to be seen as a mature statesman.

During the Enlightenment, if I'm remembering this correctly, a trend developed to adopt the idea of the classical orators not to use their hands to emphasise their arguments. Let their words do the talking, not their bodies. They'd stick their hands in their togas just to prove it.

So in the 18th and 19th centuries, this conceit was copied by people who wanted to show how serious they were.
 
I'll say nice things in contrast to un-nice things.

You don't realize how polite the average AHer is until, every now and then, a Dark Influence surfaces to harsh the local mellow. When that happens, I count on all the wonderful diehards here to return this forum to sanity ASAP and, hopefully, keep it there with wit and booby references.

Well done, everybody.
 
This is a foolish thread.

It’s about foolish things. Being goofy. Making each other laugh. Occasionally saying something nice about someone else (let’s get that vibe going again maybe). All foolish things, that don’t amount to a hill of beans. Things that serious folk might look down on. This thread serves no authorial purpose. It doesn’t help us hone our craft. It doesn’t increase the collective wisdom of humanity. Maybe the opposite.

But jokes, and kindly-intended jibes, the odd bit of encouragement (not that kind), and plain silliness are also the stuff that community is forged from. To be goofy is to be human. It might be our best defense against the rise of the machines.

Emily (who needs to work on her oratory, or something beginning with ora…)
 
This is a foolish thread.

It’s about foolish things. Being goofy. Making each other laugh. Occasionally saying something nice about someone else (let’s get that vibe going again maybe). All foolish things, that don’t amount to a hill of beans. Things that serious folk might look down on. This thread serves no authorial purpose. It doesn’t help us hone our craft. It doesn’t increase the collective wisdom of humanity. Maybe the opposite.

But jokes, and kindly-intended jibes, the odd bit of encouragement (not that kind), and plain silliness are also the stuff that community is forged from. To be goofy is to be human. It might be our best defense against the rise of the machines.

Emily (who needs to work on her oratory, or something beginning with ora…)

Ask not what Emily's thread can do for you, but what you can do for Emily's Thread?
 
This is a foolish thread.

It’s about foolish things. Being goofy. Making each other laugh. Occasionally saying something nice about someone else (let’s get that vibe going again maybe). All foolish things, that don’t amount to a hill of beans. Things that serious folk might look down on. This thread serves no authorial purpose. It doesn’t help us hone our craft. It doesn’t increase the collective wisdom of humanity. Maybe the opposite.

But jokes, and kindly-intended jibes, the odd bit of encouragement (not that kind), and plain silliness are also the stuff that community is forged from. To be goofy is to be human. It might be our best defense against the rise of the machines.

Emily (who needs to work on her oratory, or something beginning with ora…)

I did mention booby references.
 
My spousal unit just inquired regarding the etymology of “beaver” as it came to be vernacular for the female nether region. 😉

(And I wonder how far back it goes. The producers of Leave It to Beaver had to know this!)
beaver (n.3)

"female genitals, especially with a display of pubic hair," by 1927, British slang, ultimately from beaver (n.1), perhaps transferred from earlier meaning "a bearded man" (1910), or directly from the appearance of split beaver pelts.

I prefer "Map of Tasmania"
 
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