Comments on: What’s A Cubit?

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:17:23 +0000

You can also get it on iTunes, I think. That, or I burned it onto my iPod from a CD of Cosby routines I have somewhere around here.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:38:27 +0000

People forget that for most of their history the Jews were nomadic herdsmen, like most of the people in the Middle East. This is what you do in desert and semi-desert conditions.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:10:12 +0000

shipbuilding for sheepherders!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:13:12 +0000

You can’t expect shipbuilding accuracy in a book written by and for sheepherders, but it does tend to tilt the balances towards works rather than grace as he was required to provide sweat equity for salvation.

Most people know Cosby as a comedy actor, Jams, like Bob Newhart. They were very funny [IMHO] stand-up comics before ever going into sitcoms.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:15:17 +0000

I’d never heard the routine before. Very funny!

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:53:54 +0000

the only videos i watch [mostly] are the speedpainting ones. otherwise i use youtube to find music [mostly] to listen to at work. I never found out where Noye was supposed to find the fifty broads. perhaps noye was into bestyalite.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:28:33 +0000

As I’ve probably said before, I know all about cubits. My first starring role (as a recorder player) was in a high school rendition of Benjamin Britten’s setting of the 16th-century mystery play, Noye’s Fludde. I played the Dove’s music. “God” sat on a throne onstage, wearing a crown, and had more lines than in Cosby’s skit. His instructions to Noye began (as rendered only in rehearsal by our “God”),

Three hundred cubits
It shall be long
And fifty broads
To make it strong.

It is a miracle [sic] that the actor didn’t speak it that way in performance. I never found out where Noye was supposed to find the fifty broads.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:50:58 +0000

Fortunately some of us are not really into video, and others are on dial-up.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:07:36 +0000

the revolution will be youtubed. or else it won’t happen at all because we’ll all be youtubing.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:06:23 +0000

I felt sure some one would have put it up.