Sort of forerunner of Hammer House of Horror? I’ve certainly heard the term “grand-guignol” used in film reviews pejoratively to describe a sort of over-the-top stageyness, low-budget schlock I suppose. Good to know where it comes from!The Grand Guignol theater, more commonly called Grand Guignol, is a former Parisian theater that was located in the 9th arrondissement.
Specialized in plays staging gore and bloody stories, more grotesque than frightening, it has by extension given its name to the theatrical genre, the "grand guignol", and to the adjective "grand-guignolesque". The term has become pejorative over time and now refers more generally to works that abuse violence or grandiloquent effects that make you laugh.
It was inaugurated in 1896 and closed its doors in 1963.
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Snakes have always gotten a bad rap over that old story of Eve and the apple. Why was the serpent picked to be the bad guy? Who knows.Eve and the Snake, according Serpieri...
But I am wondering: does the temptation really come from the Snake?
I remember annoying a Sunday-school teacher with such questions as: .”so, if God punished the snake by making him go around on his belly for ever afterwards…. how did the snake get around before that?”
I always wondered why the snake was giving away a perfectly good apple instead of eating it himself.I remember annoying a Sunday-school teacher with such questions as: .”so, if God punished the snake by making him go around on his belly for ever afterwards…. how did the snake get around before that?”
I was going to say “because it’s a carnivore, duh!” but then I remembered that according to some creationists, every animal was a vegetarian right up to the moment when Adam ate the forbidden fruit, which is when “death came into the world”. No death, no carnivores! I guess they must have been fruitarians in fact, to avoid killing plants. Although even fruitarian digestion still “kills” plant cells.. so I’m not sure the hypothesis stands up to much in the way of scrutiny. I remember pointing that out to my Sunday school teacher just before she knocked me unconscious.I always wondered why the snake was giving away a perfectly good apple instead of eating it himself.
I remember annoying a Sunday-school teacher with such questions as: .”so, if God punished the snake by making him go around on his belly for ever afterwards…. how did the snake get around before that?”
I always wondered why the snake was giving away a perfectly good apple instead of eating it himself.
You two obviously flunked out of Sunday School and it’s been downhill ever since.I was going to say “because it’s a carnivore, duh!” but then I remembered that according to some creationists, every animal was a vegetarian right up to the moment when Adam ate the forbidden fruit, which is when “death came into the world”. No death, no carnivores! I guess they must have been fruitarians in fact, to avoid killing plants. Although even fruitarian digestion still “kills” plant cells.. so I’m not sure the hypothesis stands up to much in the way of scrutiny. I remember pointing that out to my Sunday school teacher just before she knocked me unconscious.
Yeah, never got past the first bit of the Bible. It seemed poorly researched.You two obviously flunked out of Sunday School and it’s been downhill ever since.
Fairy tales don’t require much research?Yeah, never got past the first bit of the Bible. It seemed poorly researched.
My one regret in life.I remember pointing that out to my Sunday school teacher just before she knocked me unconscious.
You might never have ended up as an Archbishop!My one regret in life.
That I didn't go to Sunday School with Monty.
I would have rather gone to Sunday school with Barb!My one regret in life.
That I didn't go to Sunday School with Monty.
You would have found I was nearly as much trouble there as @montycrusto and @wulf . What did you have in mind?I would have rather gone to Sunday school with Barb!