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Wandering - a Thursday Prompt - humor
Sometimes I wonder where my brains are at... have you seen them? If so, please leave them in an unmarked box on my doorstep. I'll take it from there.
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MOVIE OSIRUS: ... Odysseus! Odysseus!
MOVIE ODYSSEUS: Osirus!
RALPH: No, no. Leave it on for a minute ...
MOVIE OSIRUS: Odysseus, my friend! What has happened to your nose?
RALPH: Yeah, yeah. I have seen this before. Go ahead. Turn it off.
MOVIE ODYSSEUS: What news of my family?
MOVIE OSIRUS: Oh! Horrible, horrible!!
MOVIE ODYSSEUS: What! How did ...
SOUND: The TV set is turned off.
MOVIE ODYSSEUS: Osirus!
RALPH: No, no. Leave it on for a minute ...
MOVIE OSIRUS: Odysseus, my friend! What has happened to your nose?
RALPH: Yeah, yeah. I have seen this before. Go ahead. Turn it off.
MOVIE ODYSSEUS: What news of my family?
MOVIE OSIRUS: Oh! Horrible, horrible!!
MOVIE ODYSSEUS: What! How did ...
SOUND: The TV set is turned off.
This was an interesting take on the Odyssey, and I quite like the pun that game with Odysseus' name change mid-story (quite a cool detail is that it comes very close to Οὖτις/Outis - or as we say in english, 'Nobody.')
Your characterization of Odysseus himself as a younger man is definitely unique, whereas he's usually depicted as an older, more weathered man. I do think its a bit of a stretch that he wouldn't know what an oar is though, but it made for good humour.
For all my enthusiasm for Ancient Greek history and folklore, I'll admit Priapus is not a god I was familiar with. I almost thought you meant to refer to Pan at first before I looked him up(Priapus certainly has his similarities with the goat-footed piper.) You learn something new everyday.
The scene of the sacrifices is accurate, and just goes to show that while the society of the Greeks was in some ways ahead of its time, it was far from perfect.
Your characterization of Odysseus himself as a younger man is definitely unique, whereas he's usually depicted as an older, more weathered man. I do think its a bit of a stretch that he wouldn't know what an oar is though, but it made for good humour.
For all my enthusiasm for Ancient Greek history and folklore, I'll admit Priapus is not a god I was familiar with. I almost thought you meant to refer to Pan at first before I looked him up(Priapus certainly has his similarities with the goat-footed piper.) You learn something new everyday.
The scene of the sacrifices is accurate, and just goes to show that while the society of the Greeks was in some ways ahead of its time, it was far from perfect.
Naming or renaming a boat has the same issues. This obscure process is actually a combination of ancient rituals designed to appease Neptune and the Four Winds so as to provide fair winds and smooth seas for the newly named boats. In the distant past this ceremony has supposedly included such currently politically incorrect practices as covering the boat with freshly tanned animal hides or sacrificing a virgin. Sailors these days are a bit more civilized, probably due to the scarcity of virgins and PETA howling in protest at slaughtering an animal for any reason much less renaming a boat. Thus the virgin’s blood has given way to red wine or some other libation and the uratic (or is it uric?) acid in the tanned hides has been replaced by...well...with whatever the skipper can get away with without being arrested for indecent exposure or water pollution. I currently use a puff or two of "Buck Stop", pure meat fed female red fox urine, when I'm called upon to do the ceremony.
Red wine does make for a fine libation. I think I've used a little over half of the sangria I buy for offerings, and the remaining amount for the occasional drink. Said offerings are always absent of flesh, cow's breast milk or honey, best to avoid harming another if it can be helped...and any possibly of needless pissing any of the theoi off.
I reckon it isn't a matter of political correctness or incorrectness, as the response to that typically is to keep doing the same acts, but dressed up with nicer, more comforting words and euphemisms to make people feel better about it.
I think, if anything, it goes to show that cultures and traditions ought to be questioned and inevitably have to evolve over time in some form, as we continue to evolve ourselves. Be it due to our changing philosophies and values, scientific discoveries, or due to other methods, just as effective, becoming more feasible.
On the subject of PETA, I'm saying this as an animal liberation advocate - PETA's full of shit, for lack of a better word (the reasons why are better left for another conversation.) Yet, with all this being said, I must concede that they were not wrong to speak up about that as they did (if, in fact, they did.).
Apologies for the lengthy post, I hope it isn't too much of a mess, and that it makes some amount of sense. Your words have given me a good deal of food for thought, Morgan.
I reckon it isn't a matter of political correctness or incorrectness, as the response to that typically is to keep doing the same acts, but dressed up with nicer, more comforting words and euphemisms to make people feel better about it.
I think, if anything, it goes to show that cultures and traditions ought to be questioned and inevitably have to evolve over time in some form, as we continue to evolve ourselves. Be it due to our changing philosophies and values, scientific discoveries, or due to other methods, just as effective, becoming more feasible.
On the subject of PETA, I'm saying this as an animal liberation advocate - PETA's full of shit, for lack of a better word (the reasons why are better left for another conversation.) Yet, with all this being said, I must concede that they were not wrong to speak up about that as they did (if, in fact, they did.).
Apologies for the lengthy post, I hope it isn't too much of a mess, and that it makes some amount of sense. Your words have given me a good deal of food for thought, Morgan.
Apology accepted...I laughed out loud at your comment about PETA so we're more than even. Anyhow, those rituals were changing long before PETA ever existed. Besides, you put an interesting philosophical slant to what what was intentionally written with a humorous bent. I originally wrote most of it for an article I authored for our sailing club newsletter some 15 years ago.
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