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Hocus Pocus
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Ideas & Questions
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From the Latin "Hoc est Corpus" - The medieval priest holding up the bread and water and turning it into the body and blood of Christ. Hence the ignorant or superstitious peasant adapted "Hocus Pocus" to apply to any magical act of transmutation or change, the classic mockery of power and authority.
There are alternate theories of the etymology, according to Sharon Turner in The History of the Anglo-Saxons, they were believed to be derived from Ochus Bochus, a magician and demon of the north, and the old Oxford English Dictionary attributes the term term to an abbreviated "hax pax max Deus adimax", a pseudo-Latin phrase used as a magical formula by conjurers.
Weird City
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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This looks perfect:
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A cruise ship on Kootenay Lake
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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That I'm on Kootenay Lake, Not Kootenay Lake, Kootenay Lake only much narrower and the mountains, from the edge, are so much higher...
I'm on a dock with my daughter, looking across, there's a miniature cruise ship, 4 stories above the water with 4 smokestacks just like the Titanic. And across the lake a glacier slips down and plunges in, a big wave and the cruise ship tips on it's side, I look at my daughter, I'm annoyed but I have to dive in and try and save some of the people, the water's going to be cold, I grab a garden hose from the dock and leap in...
Swimming, swimming, they don't need me at the ship, there weren't so many people on it after all,but there's a box that's fallen into the water, filled with - ?Pearls? I don't know, but it's sinking and sinking, the lid is open and it's contents are floating up but I'm swimming deeper after the box, the water isn't so cold after all...
Kijiji V Craigslist
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: For Sale
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I mean, at the end of the day, Craigslist is filled with perverts...
My ad, after a month, is still on page one.
I'm going to sell my Banana Pump without the perverts. There's clearly not enough of them.
So I go to Kijiji.
And, most of my visits are via people checking "See other items for sale from this user...", so the banana-pump views, they're climbing...
And it keeps me posting ads, different ads in all categories, because a surprising amount of sales come from people browsing your other ads.
So I gotta get a lot more ads out there. Drive a lot more visits. But - so far, Kijiji V Craigslist, Kijiji is winning.
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