Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The internet / An etymology.

A friend of a friend who's straight, Israeli, and lives in Jerusalem and is kind of a nice guy I'm told but pleasantly sleazy enjoys getting random ass and so cruises the net and has a lot of random women over to his apartment for fun and, as it turns out, most of them are young, highly orthodox, and very nervous and come over from the orthodox part of town so they can have some fun and not be seen before going back to their homes and their neighborhoods, which are big on community-enforced social norms (e.g. cars are stoned if you drive through on the sabbath, which is true, it happened to a friend).

Also, today I read that the "alder-" part "alderman" is related to "elder" and "old", which makes perfect sense since an alderman has the function of a governing elder or something, only we don't think of that now at all, since the etymology isn't transparent and now the word is just some funky word for a governing position like "mayor" or "ombudsman".

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