Comments on: Mystery Solved?

By: joe

joe — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:24:50 +0000

i love LF

By: B

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:39:35 +0000

Ah, I see, I naively thought you’re hosted by some .edu server. How bout exporting the arxives elsewhere?

By: F.

F. — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:33:58 +0000

Perhaps the censored word was used in cursing, which is common but would surely offend some people, if not deities. Anyway, please,
God save the queen!
F.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:56:53 +0000

Yeah, we know. Steps are being taken to address the problem. Mostly so far those steps involve grumbling to ourselves and imaginative scenarios involving Bluehost technicians and hungry mountain lions, but it’s something.

By: JJ

JJ — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:19:56 +0000

something completely off-topic: when trying to access CV, I've lately repeatedly gotten a blank page saying 'this account has exceeded it's CPU quota'. Just so you know... Oh yeah, Sean knows.

By: B

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:52:04 +0000

something completely off-topic: when trying to access CV, I’ve lately repeatedly gotten a blank page saying ‘this account has exceeded it’s CPU quota’. Just so you know…

By: nc

nc — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:42:21 +0000

Sean, the issue with “God save the Queen” (the statement and the National Anthem’s title) is not the word God but the tradition that people should be asking God to save the Queen, in particular. Because the Queen is clearly the head of one specific religion (Christian Protestant) it implicitly characterizes God as being of that denomination. By placing so much emphasis on the religious significance of one particular living person, it is a reminder of an aspect of the traditional side of Britain which some of other faiths might feel is an anachronism, together with things like the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, who have been guarding the British Sovereign since 1656, see http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page1.asp

However, I think it is fun. The BBC used to always play “God save the Queen” at the end of daily TV broadcasts. Shamefully they stopped. Cultural things are the right place for traditions (I do object to people’s insistence on obsolete traditions and mainstream ideas in science, which must be kept fact-based and progressive.)

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:51:27 +0000

I demand that the word “b-gger” be censored from this blog, on the grounds that it is offensive to the uphill-gardening set. Sean should know better, especially in C_lifornia.

By: fh

fh — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:58:18 +0000

“There isn’t any traditional prescription against saying “God”"

In Judaism there is. However it usually only refers to Gods true (hebrew) name, and not to the word god, yet if you goole for “g-d god” you will find many jewish sources which use g-d instead of god….

By: Rob Knop

Rob Knop — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:50:58 +0000

I think we should consider the possibility that she was saying “blogger!” and that nobody heard it right.