Lake Effect Enters Week Three
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foofers posted reminded me of this. Combined with a lake effect show storm that is now entering its third week.
Christian missionaries, when working in barbarian countries, tend to adapt the local words to their faith. So it is that He of the Unpronouncable Name- YHWH wasn't supposed to SPELL anything, much the less Yahweh or Jehovah, the point was that you could NOT pronounce YHWH at all-- anyway, so it is that He of the Unpronouncable Name became God in the Germanic regions of northern Europe. And the firey Sheol became Hell.
But if you know your Norse myths, you know that Hel is not a place of fire. It is a place of endless cold and darkness where the sun never shines.
So it is appropriate that Hell is in Michigan. In fact, it's about three miles east of Pinckney. I'm sure that pinpoints it for all of you.
Hell doesn't have its own zip code, although it does have a postal substation-- mostly so you can get your cards and letters postmarked in Hell. As you might expect, the unincorporated village's chief product is tourist trash. Here is a BBC h2g2 entry about it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3868617
Be it noted, though that Hell is in SOUTHERN Michigan and is not in the lake effect snow belt.
Therefore, after three weeks of relentless lake effect snow and cold, I feel called upon to point out that my home town is colder than Hell, darker than Hell, more dismal than Hell, and one hell of a lot snowier than Hell.
And I'm sick as Hell of all of it.
foofers posted reminded me of this. Combined with a lake effect show storm that is now entering its third week.Christian missionaries, when working in barbarian countries, tend to adapt the local words to their faith. So it is that He of the Unpronouncable Name- YHWH wasn't supposed to SPELL anything, much the less Yahweh or Jehovah, the point was that you could NOT pronounce YHWH at all-- anyway, so it is that He of the Unpronouncable Name became God in the Germanic regions of northern Europe. And the firey Sheol became Hell.
But if you know your Norse myths, you know that Hel is not a place of fire. It is a place of endless cold and darkness where the sun never shines.
So it is appropriate that Hell is in Michigan. In fact, it's about three miles east of Pinckney. I'm sure that pinpoints it for all of you.
Hell doesn't have its own zip code, although it does have a postal substation-- mostly so you can get your cards and letters postmarked in Hell. As you might expect, the unincorporated village's chief product is tourist trash. Here is a BBC h2g2 entry about it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3868617
Be it noted, though that Hell is in SOUTHERN Michigan and is not in the lake effect snow belt.
Therefore, after three weeks of relentless lake effect snow and cold, I feel called upon to point out that my home town is colder than Hell, darker than Hell, more dismal than Hell, and one hell of a lot snowier than Hell.
And I'm sick as Hell of all of it.
