Online dating... BEWARE!
- Thread starter Puckstop31
- Start date
AndrewF said:
Wow! this just proves you can learn while you're asleep! (which is what I did through most of high-school english) 
haha, it was actually REALLY hard to fall asleep in my class of out teacher... "The Taz" as we called her (Ptazsnik was her last name, loL) she had this weird voice, and she was really enthusiastic, so when she got all hyper, it would get all shrill and loud...
and on top of that...she yelled at people when we fell asleep
i was lucky to get awesome english teachers (minus sophomore year...when we had a senile man...omg, he was dead...it was amazing he could still walk and talk...he would grade a paper- i have seen him do it, in less than a minute...these 2 kids turned in the EXACT same paper, word for word....one got an A one got a B-....man, that dude was so neat!)
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2005
- Messages
- 16,079
- Likes
- 0
- Points
- 0
AndrewF said:
I'll summarize (as best as I can recall anyways):
Oedipus' parents were told by the oracle that he'd kill his father and marry his mother. They shipped him off to be raised by other people.
Flash-forward. Oedipus is walking down the road one day and kill's his biological father and parties with bio-mom in all the wrong ways....has a great time until he realizes that ooops.....that's HIS mother....so he gouges out his eyes.
The Greeks had a rather chipper sense of entertainment back then
Oedipus' parents were told by the oracle that he'd kill his father and marry his mother. They shipped him off to be raised by other people.
Flash-forward. Oedipus is walking down the road one day and kill's his biological father and parties with bio-mom in all the wrong ways....has a great time until he realizes that ooops.....that's HIS mother....so he gouges out his eyes.
The Greeks had a rather chipper sense of entertainment back then
A few days later Oedipus reaches Thebes and solves the riddle of the sphynx. The sphynx has been making life in Thebes horrible and wouldn't go away unless someone solved it's riddle and Oedipus did. The riddle of the sphynx was:
“What goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon and three legs at night?” Oedipus is the first person to figure out the answer: As crawling infants, people travel on four limbs in the mornings of their lives. As adults, they travel upright on two limbs in the bright middays of their lives. As frail and elderly people tapping canes before them, they travel on three limbs in the twilights of their days."
So they made him king, him and his mother/now wife, Jocasta, had 4 children.(The sons names where Polynices and Eteocles. The daughters where previously said.). Well that's where the term "motherfu**er" came from.
That's all just from Oedipus the king. The entire trilogy goes on to Oedipus at Colornus and Antigone
