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Monday, December 22. 2014

Luminous is good

Christmas card from Alma Mater. I like it.



Posted by Bird Dog at 21:31 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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The picture is nice, though would it have been too inflammatory to use the words "Merry Christmas"?
#1 ron snyder on 2014-12-23 08:26 (Reply)
Christ is the Light of the World, is he not?
#1.1 Bird Dog on 2014-12-23 08:46 (Reply)
Perhaps, though thinking that using "Lost" languages to publicize the Word gets an "F" for effort.

How many people in America know Latin, or Greek, or most any other language? 2%? Bi-lingual we are not (excluding Pig-Latin), especially in the classics.
#1.1.1 ron snyder on 2014-12-23 11:56 (Reply)
Yeah, the Latin quote is "In your light, we see light," from St. Augustine. But we can't have anything, you know, God related, in the English part of the Christmas-- oops, the holiday-which-dare-not-speak-its-name-- card. Let's put some Latin in there to sound educated, while steadfastly refusing to engage with the concept it expresses. It might lead to actual, you know, illumination.
#2 Janet on 2014-12-23 08:49 (Reply)
Janet wins the internet today!
#2.1 mary on 2014-12-23 10:46 (Reply)
Meh, looks like the US Treasury Building.

What is that place? A radio broadcasting college inside of a mall?
#3 Ron Burgandy on 2014-12-23 11:25 (Reply)
It is a humanities library.
#3.1 MissyW on 2014-12-23 11:36 (Reply)
I am not going to urinate on BD's card as he likes it.

But.

I wonder how many cards they send out? The manpower and materials could get expensive. Where does the money come from? Is there no smarter way to spend it?

I don't receive a card, Christmas or otherwise from my Alma Mater.

Perhaps it is because I don't send them money?
#4 feeblemind on 2014-12-23 13:17 (Reply)
It's an e-card
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2014-12-23 14:03 (Reply)
That would be called the library at Columbia College.
#4.1.1 Bird Dog on 2014-12-23 19:13 (Reply)

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