Reminds me of my favorite visual puns from James Thurber:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/images/agozzino2.png

Sad to hear that it is no longer there.

@ 13: Yah, Grapes of Wrath was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.

Wow…that certainly brought back some mental images I was trying to distance myself from.

(kra{shti}n) [a. It. crine or ad. L. cr{imac}n-is hair: cf. F. crin hair, horse-hair.]

1. Hair, head of hair. Also attrib.
1614 SYLVESTER Du Bartas, Bethulia’s Rescue I. 160 Priests, whose sacred Crine Felt never Razor. 1768 Bristol Jrnl. Oct., Hose of Goatskyn, Crinepart outwards. 1865 Athen. No. 1969. 119/3 Both crines look like ill-made wigs.

2. Hawking. = CRINET 2.
1883 SALVIN & BRODRICK Falconry Brit. Isles Gloss. 150.

crine, v.
SECOND EDITION 1989
Sc.

(kra{shti}n) [app. a. Gael. crìon to wither, f. crìon dry, withered.]

1. intr. To shrink, shrivel, contract from dryness.
1501 DOUGLAS Pal. Hon. III. 845 All wycht but sycht of thy gret mycht ay crinis. 1724 RAMSAY Evergreen, Interl. Droichs xiii, I am crynit in for eild. 1818 SCOTT Hrt. Midl. xxxix, ‘And mine bairns hae been crining too, mon.’ 1849 MRS. CARLYLE Lett. II. 62 He had grown old like a golden pippin, merely crined, with the bloom upon him. Mod. Sc. The meat (in stewing) has crined into very little.

b. trans.
1847 Whistlebinkie (Sc. Songs) (1840) II. 165 The drouth it had krined up and slackened the screw. 1878 DICKINSON Cumbrld. Gloss., Crine, to overdo in frying or roasting.

{dag}2. To sweat or clip (coin). Obs. rare{em}1.
1513 DOUGLAS Æneis VIII. Prol. 97 Sum trachour crynis the cun{ygh}e, and kepis corn stakis.

Hence crined ppl. a., shrunken, shrivelled.
1861 RAMSAY Remin. 2nd Ser. 121 A very little ‘crined’ old man.

Peter

1. The 8 Immortals
2. Lady White Snake
3. Vices and virtues
4. 10 courts of Hell
5. Journey to the West

However, there is a poster with a picture of the statue above. And it’s labelled as mother-in-law (to make it less shocking??)

Entering school a year late never tasted so sweet!

…

And by sweet, I mean the sweet taste of breast milk.

Coming out of my friends’ breasts. Because, you know, I’m older than all of them.

It was funnier on the internet in my head.

“Relationships

One theme central to Confucianism is that of relationships, and the differing duties arising from the different status one held in relation to others. Individuals are held to simultaneously stand in different degrees of relationship with different people, namely, as a junior in relation to their parents and elders, and as a senior in relation to their younger siblings, students, and others. While juniors are considered in Confucianism to owe strong duties of reverence and service to their seniors, seniors also have duties of benevolence and concern toward juniors. This theme consistently manifests itself in many aspects of East Asian cultures even to this day, with extensive filial duties on the part of children toward parents and elders, and great concern of parents toward their children.

Social harmony — the great goal of Confucianism — thus results partly from every individual knowing his or her place in the social order and playing his or her part well. When Duke Jing of Qi asked about government, by which he meant proper administration so as to bring social harmony, Confucius replied,

“There is government, when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.” (Analects XII, 11, tr. Legge).

[edit] Filial piety

“Filial piety” (Chinese: 孝; pinyin: xiào) is considered among the greatest of virtues and must be shown towards both the living and the dead (ancestors). The term “filial”, meaning “of a child”, denotes the respect that a child, originally a son, should show to his parents. This relationship was extended by analogy to a series of five relationships (Chinese: 五倫; pinyin: wÇ”lún)[1]:

1. Sovereign to subject
2. Parent to child
3. Elder to younger brother
4. Husband to wife
5. Friend to friend (Older friend is higher in rank/class than younger friend)”

It was torn down to make way for more luxury high-rises.

What a waste.

http://www.bigwhiteguy.com/
http://www.hongkongphotographic.com/

Where’s the hell for bad parents? You reap what you sow, not the other way around?

Religion never made much sense.

It certainly explains my adult self’s predilection for dismembering plastic toys and painting them red with marker ink, that’s for sure.

In Taoist and Buddhist mythology, hell is made up of ten courts, each ruled by one of the 10 Yama Kings and 18 levels in which wrongdoers are punished.

In some literatures, there are references to 18 types or subtypes of hells, or 18 hells for each type of punishment, rather than just 18 levels of hell. In some literatures, there are different types of punishment on each level.

The concept of ’18 levels of hell’ started in the Tang Dynasty. The Buddhist text Jian Di Yu Jing (間地獄經) mentioned 134 worlds of hell, but was simplified to 18 levels of hell for convenience.

1. Chamber of Wind and Thunder – People who kill and commit heinous crimes out of greed are sent here for punishment.
2. Chamber of Grinding – Wealthy men who do no good and waste food are ground into powder in this chamber.
3. Chamber of Flames – People who steal, plunder, rob and cheat are sent here to be burnt.
4. Chamber of Ice – Children who ill-treat their parents and elders are sent here to be frozen in ice.
5. Chamber of Oil Cauldrons – Sex offenders such as rapists, lechers, adulterers are fried in oil in this chamber.
6. Chamber of Dismemberment by Sawing – Kidnappers and people who force good women into prostitution suffer the fate of being sawn in this chamber.
7. Chamber of Dismemberment by Chariot – Corrupt officials and landlords who oppress and exploit the people are dismembered by a chariot in this chamber.
8. Chamber of Mountain of Knives – People who cheat customers by earning more than they should, profiteers who jack up prices and cheat on the quality of goods are made to shed blood by climbing the mountain of knives.
9. Chamber of Tongue Ripping – Gossips who stir trouble and liars suffer the fate of having their tongues ripped out in this chamber.
10. Chamber of Pounding – Cold-blooded murderers are pounded in this chamber.
11. Chamber of Torso-severing – Scheming and ungrateful men have their torsos severed in this chamber.
12. Chamber of Scales – Crooks who oppress the innocent, people who cheat on the quality of goods and daughters-in-law who ill-treat their in-laws have hooks pierced into their body and hung upside down.
13. Chamber of Eye-gouging – Peeping toms who go around peeking and leering have their eyeballs gouged out in this chamber.
14. Chamber of Heart-digging – People with evil hearts have theirs dug out in this chamber.
15. Chamber of Disembowelment – Instigators, hypocrites and tomb-robbers have their bowels dug out in this chamber.
16. Chamber of Blood – Blasphemous crooks who show no respect to the gods suffer the fate of being skinned in this chamber.
17. Chamber of Maggots – Crooks who use loopholes in the law to cheat and engage in malpractice are being eaten alive by maggots in this chamber.
18. Chamber of Avici – Crooks who have committed heinous crimes, brought misery to the people and betrayed the ruler are placed on a platform above an inferno. The unlucky ones fall off the platform into the inferno and burn while the lucky ones remain on the platform. These spirits are never to be reincarnated.”

I’m glad they have a place for rapists. Dante seems to have forgotten about rapists, and it is important to have a well-organized realm of eternal torture.