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CantingAdjective: affectedly pious or righteous <a canting moralist> [Origin: 5Cant.]
(1663)
1Cant
Adjective dialectal, England: Lively, Lusty. [Origin: Middle English, probably from Middle Low German kant.]
(14th Century)
²Cant
Transitive verb.
1: to give a cant or oblique edge to: bevel.
2: to set at an angle: Tilt.
3: Chiefly British: to throw with a lurch.
Intransitive verb.
1: to pitch to one side: lean.
2: slope.
[Origin: ³Cant]
(Circa 1543)
³Cant
Noun.
1: Obsolete: corner, niche.
2: an external angle (as of a building).
3: a log with one or more squared sides.
4a: an oblique or slanting surface b: inclination, slope.
[Origin: Middle English cant side, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle French dialect; Middle Dutch, edge, corner, from Middle French dialectal (Picard), from Latin canthus, cantus iron tire, perhaps of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh cant rim; perhaps akin to Greek kanthos corner of the eye.]
(1603)
4Cant
Adjective.
1: having canted corners or sides.
2: inclined.
(1663)
5Cant
Intransitive verb.
1: to talk or beg in a whining or singsong manner.
2: to speak in cant or jargon.
3: to talk hypocritically.
[Origin: perhaps from Middle French dialect (Norman-Picard) canter to tell, literally, to sing from Latin cantare.]
(1567)
6Cant
Noun.
1: affected singsong or whining speech.
2a: the private language of the underworld. b: obsolete: the phraseology peculiar to a religious class or sect. c: jargon.
3: a set or stock phrase.
4: the expression or repetition of conventional or trite opinions or sentiments; especially: the insincere use of pious words.
(1640)
“You could certainly call it that,” said Cornish. “Pompous, canting old hypocrite!” he went on. “Everybody’s got it in for him. Throws his weight about, ultra sanctimonious, and neck deep in graft for years past!” – The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, Agatha Christie.
There’s a lovely old Elm outside the apartment complex, this is a bit of it. Click for full size.
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TÝR – Hold The Heathen Hammer High.
The location where I spent this spring’s vacation has a very interesting path through the forest – many tree stumps along it are carved into beautiful statues, some somewhat realistic, some completely abstract. I saw an empty truck parked there with link to this website of Czech artist Jan Kužel. The style of the statues there corresponds to statues in the forest, so it is reasonable to deduce those statues are at least in part his work. These are done mostly with the use of a chainsaw, which is very impressive.
I checked and double checked and AFAIK Czech Law does not prohibit photographing and sharing of photographs of any art that is permanently displayed on public land with unrestricted access. Which is this case. So the photographs are mine, but the art they are depicting belongs to someone else. I will post only a couple of pictures at a time, because there is a lot of them.
It has begun on a clearing with a simple table and a couple of benches, and a road sign reading “To the Mountains” on the left and “Home” to the right.
©Charly, all rights reserved. Click for full size.
From Giliell, click for full size!
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I am not entirely sure what species it is. Looks like Poseur dramaticus.
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With this offer you will receive eight (8) Freeze Dried Columbian Coffee Pouches-60 servings per pouch, one (1) Vanilla Pudding Pouch-10 servings per pouch, one (1) Morning Moo’s Low Fat Milk Pouch-20 servings per pouch.
End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker dedicated his entire television program today to pitching his new line of survival coffee, telling his audience that things will get so desperate when the Last Days arrive that those who are prepared will be able to get a new car in exchange for one packet of this coffee.
Citing the passage in the Bible in which Joseph was put in charge of Pharaoh’s palace in order to prepare for a coming famine, Bakker reiterated his claim that God made Donald Trump president in order to give Christians an opportunity to prepare for the End Times … by buying Bakker’s survival products.
Oh yes, if you just have a bunch of buckets o’ yuck, everything will be just fine for all those “left behind”, you bet. I can’t imagine why Jim would care in the slightest what happens to anyone after he’s safely raptured and tucked into Jesus’s lap or whatever, so it has to come down to plain old greediness, as always.
When the End Times arrive, Bakker said, a bucket of coffee is going to be worth its weight in gold.
“What do you think that is worth if the sun don’t shine?” he asked. “What will it be worth if the power goes out and there’s no trucks running [due to an] EMP bomb or whatever they’re talking about for these Last Day events? This two gallon bucket of packs of coffee, you could trade them for whatsoever you want. You could probably get a new car for one packet of coffee.”
Uh, right. A new car which won’t run because EMP bomb and a lack of fuel, yeah? I’d rather hang onto the coffee, but not your bucket coffee, Jim. Besides, in all the hysterical depictions of “end times”, most people would be gone, disappeared into whatever, so it seems people could just help themselves to whatever they liked. I just can’t find any motivation to spend $80.00 on your crappy coffee and morning moo. Ugh.
Several of my pictures are about hands, one way or the other. I liked drawing hands. Not so dissecting them.
What I said about watching human heads sans skin in formaldehyde being creepy goes doubly so for hands. Mucking around in someones guts left me cold, but dead hands I have found disconcerting. In many aspects a human hand is much more intimate than, not to put a too fine a point on it, genitals. Genitals in a jar are just another organ. A hand is a part of someone’s life in a much more profound way.
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Human hands are a marvel. Their flexibility is nearly unsurpassed in the animal kingdom and they are extremely good in their ability to grasp things ranging from feathers and eggs to sticks and stones. But what people generally do not know is that the strength of the hand does not lie in the muscles in the palm. Palm muscles only position the fingers and shape the palm, but what curls and straightens the fingers – and thus gives them strength – ale muscles of the forearm, whose tendons go under a series of ligaments to the base of the last digit segment like ropes through pulleys.
I have also found that many people do not realize that the smallest of fingers – the pinky – is essential for strong grip. Without pinky it would be difficult to get a firm grip on a tool or a weapon, be it a hammer or a chisel, an axe or a sword.
The one interesting thing that Professor Kos has mentioned and I remember is the muscle Musculus palmaris longus. This muscle is not present in all people, and in some people it is present only in one hand. Its absence has no ill effect whatsoever, so from evolutionary point of view it seems to be a neutral trait.
Orden Ogan – Gunman. Lyrics at the link.
Milkweed
Milkweed, before the autumn fuzzies set in, ©voyager, all rights reserved
It’s a beautiful morning so Jack and I set out early trying to beat the anticipated heat and we came upon some glorious milkweed. We didn’t see any butterflies, but the Monarchs love this stuff so I think they may have been hiding from the large snorfling dog.
Our first port of call after leaving Moscow was the beautiful and ancient city of Uglich, which lies on the southern portion of the Volga River. These photos were taken just after we slipped through yet another lock and our ship headed towards the landing dock at Uglich. Most photos are below the fold.
Lock on the Volga River
Magpies here are very difficult to photograph. They are shy and scamper away at the slightest movement even behind a window.
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