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10/07/2025 🕌MYTHOLOGY & RELIGION⛪   Leave a comment

I’ve had many Christians over the years try to convince me to take everything in the Bible literally. As a kid my late Mother was notorious for bringing me comic books about religion containing all kinds of cutesy cartoon characters of saints, sinners, angels and yes, even of God himself. At a very young age I realized that religion came across to me as mostly mythology while mythology also had certain characteristics of religion. I decided to ignore all of the parental and societal influences and proceeded with my life and eventually decided to believe neither.

Todays post will test your knowledge of both the Bible and Mythology. As always the answers will be listed below.

  • The diet of what mythical monster periodically included seven youths and seven maidens?
  • In the Bible, which of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rides a red horse?
  • How were Noah and Methuselah related?
  • Who is the only woman whose age is mentioned in the Bible?
  • According to legend, what Hindu God died as Achilles did, from an arrow shot into his heel?

  • What was the Bedouin Mohammed adh–Dhib looking for when he discovered that Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947?
  • What was the total population of the world at the time of Christ?
  • How many people were on Noah’s Ark?
  • Who were the parents of King Solomon?
  • In the Bible, who saw the handwriting on the wall?

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Answers
The Minotaur, War-Book of Revelations, Methuselah was Noah’s paternal grandfather, Sarah, Krishna, His lost goat, Approximately 200,000,000, Eight, David and Bathsheba, Babylonian King Belshazzar.

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(My Mother would be so proud.)

Posted October 7, 2025 by Every Useless Thing in Bitch & Complain, Education, Entertainment, History, Just Saying, Kill Me, I'm Begging You, Looking Back, Quiz, Religion, Sarcasm, Trivia

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01/27/2024 “Editing”   2 comments

After writing this blog for so many years, I tend to write and read everything six times trying to correct my many mistakes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be the norm for other people to edit themselves, even those who are magazine and newspaper editors. It’s commonplace in everyday advertisements to see misspelled words, bad grammar and a general lack of concern for accuracy. It appears that our education system may be partially responsible for some of these issues, and it drives me effing crazy. Here are a few examples of “malaprops” collected from grade school, high school, and college examination papers. What do you think?

  • The American colonists won their Revolutionary War and no longer had to pay for taxis.
  • The air is thin high up in the sky, down here, it’s fat.
  • The flood damage was so bad they had to evaporate the city.
  • A horse divided against itself cannot stand.
  • The U.S. Constitution was adopted to secure domestic hostility.

  • Columbus discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
  • Brigham Young led the Morons to Utah.
  • Socrates died from taking a poison called wedlock. 
  • The police surrounded the building and threw an accordion around the block.
  • To prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray medicine into your nose.

Here’s one of my favorites:

Achilles’ mother dipped him in the River Stinks until he became immoral.

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Posted January 27, 2024 by Every Useless Thing in Bitch & Complain, Education, Entertainment, History, Humor, Kill Me, I'm Begging You, Looking Back, Quotations, Stupidity, Trivia

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