Vinnie

Found on X-Talk. THis is "humor" but it seems to fit better here since its "specialized humor".

Trini-tini-tarianism - Belief in a miniscule but three-personed God.

Exebegesis - Textual interpretation that results in scaring the pants off you.

Septuasquint - Vision deficit resulting from intense study of small-print version of the Septuagint.

Codex Sinusitis - Historically important New Testament manuscript that makes you sneeze.

Hypocrypha - extra-canonical documents that pretend to be part of the apocrypha but aren't.

Apocalips - The intensely pursed expression of readers of Left Behind books.

Tell-e-all-ogy - The theological justification for sleazy unauthorized
biographies.

Penetetouche' - A crushing rejoinder to arguments that Moses did not write the Penteteuch.

Eh-scatology - Ho-hum exposition of the end times.

Christodgily - Dry, academic discussion of the various manifestations of Christ.

Form Criticism - What liberal theologians engage in when they go on Spring Break.

Intarnation - Ontological epithet often inserted into the sentence
"What.* are you doing?"

Propitchiation - A testimony of faith given by professional baseball
players.

Par-wooz-sia - State of mental fuzziness induced by overlong fasting
while reading the book of Revelation.

Par-oops-sia - Heresy propounded by some writers who forgot where to look for the book of the Revelation.

Kantikle of Kanticles - Seldom-sung love song based on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Synaptic Gospels - Fast paced cyber-version of the Gospels.

Pteredactor - A theological dinosaur known for biting large holes in the
text.

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Vinnie

Vinnie

I would have made Par-oops-sia refer more along the lines of "mistaken apocalyptic timetable" myself. Overall I found the list pretty funny though.

WinAce

Damn. Am I a geek just because I got all those jokes?

Very funny, by the way.

DrJim

Red actor The star of old time soviet propaganda films.

Ass-earians Folks who not only talk out their donkeys but listen too...

Solemon The king of Israel who first put lemon juice on a nice fish dinner.


Major Profits What lots of CEO's claim to make to boost share prices.

Miner Profits CEO jargon for being in the proverbial financial hole while putting a positive spin on it to keep one's bonuses.

Chances are this thread will be moved but what can you do?

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worldling

a-poo-logetics crap excuses for believing in shit

Vinnie

Solemon The king of Israel who first put lemon juice on a nice fish dinner.

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a-poo-logetics crap excuses for believing in shit

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DrJim

Herman Neuteknik GMBH A German high tech company.


Form Criticism A patriarchal version of Women's Studies.