"Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!" That's Psalm 137, talking about the happiness of those who dash their enemies' children against the rock. In Patristic exegesis, happy are those who take even the beginnings of temptation and dash them against the Rock, Christ. In homeschooling, happy is the Dad who can dash against the rock his son's misuse of "like" the first moment it ever happens. He was talking about looking for a paper airplane that had landed on a ceiling fan. He reported, "I was like, 'Where is that plane?'" We don't allow such offensive barbarisms in their speech and he was instantly, gently and firmly corrected.
Why, yes, I am uptight about some things. Why do you ask?
And I'm, like, I know exactly what Bill means - know what I mean?
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