Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin is one of the oldest wordplays in literature. A mene was a small Greek copper coin, it also meant to count or measure. Tekel was a silver Phoenician coin, in Hebrew, a shekel. It also meant to weigh. Upharsin was a gold Persian coin, and it also meant to divide. You can see why they needed a specialist to decipher the message. 🙂
It’s clearly a typo, but it’s still appropriate: after all, we are talking about BUGS.
P.S. The color combination on this comment entry field is horrible:illegible medium gray on light gray,. Artsy fartsy pastels are for the birds. Could we have some nice BLACK on WHITE, please?
Eh, a “G” is better than mene, mene, telek, parsin.
*tekel
Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin is one of the oldest wordplays in literature. A mene was a small Greek copper coin, it also meant to count or measure. Tekel was a silver Phoenician coin, in Hebrew, a shekel. It also meant to weigh. Upharsin was a gold Persian coin, and it also meant to divide. You can see why they needed a specialist to decipher the message. 🙂
Absolutely zero of that made any sense to me.
I suppose you mean the band The Beatles, and not a bunch of beetles?
It’s clearly a typo, but it’s still appropriate: after all, we are talking about BUGS.
P.S. The color combination on this comment entry field is horrible:illegible medium gray on light gray,. Artsy fartsy pastels are for the birds. Could we have some nice BLACK on WHITE, please?
I have black on white. Windows 7, Chrome.
Maybe he’s getting a taste of his own medicine with a plague of beetles? O_o
I’d bet Adam did that on purpose.
Whoops! Yep. Will fix.
You’re telling me that wasn’t intentional? I’m stunned.
This might seem daring, but I say: God would be bigger than the Beatles.
A pen, I would have expected Him to sign it with licks of fire like writing the tablets in “The Ten Commandments.”
At least I have some proof that the Beatles actually existed.
Mr. Dant obviously never heard of the Paul is Dead theory….