Pet peeve: CAVALRY vs. CALVARY

[Catch22Dem]

Heard some dickhead say something about the CALVARY coming in to save NOLA. What a morAn.

[no name no slogan]

1. Yes, here comes the giant hill from Palestine

here to save the day...

[hfojvt]

2. is the calvary on the way?

remember to save a horse, ride a crucifix.

[Catch22Dem]

3. "ride" it like Linda Blair?

:evilgrin:

[JVS]

4. Look 3 men on crosses are riding a hill at us!

We're saved!

[dolo amber]

5. I can NEVER keep those 2 straight

I know one is to do with horses and the other is to do with Jesus...but I can never remember which is which so I just avoid using them. x(

[JVS]

6. Just remember that John Calvin was more interested in Calvary than cavalry

[hfojvt]

9. but who wants to remember Cavalin

other than Hobbes? He's no John Hus.

[JVS]

11. But there is no C-a-l in Hus to remind you of Calvary

And then you'll just be sitting there not knowing which word is which and thinking of a man whos atempts at reformation of the church ended abruptly when he was burned at the stake.

[hfojvt]

12. there is however, an H-U-S

reminding me of Jesus' middle initial and the greatest country on the earth, and also for me to remind people to make like a puppy and hush. You know it's better to burn out than to be remembered as a grimm predestinarian with a stick up your a$$. :evilfrown:

[hfojvt]

7. "Pooh looked at his two paws.

He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin."

It would be worse if you had to lead the cavalry charge up Calvary.

[lildreamer316]

15. POOH!

Love my pooh.
Tao of Pooh; anyone?

[Aristus]

8. Calvary is the hill; Cavalry is the horses.

Keep it straight.

'Calvarius' was the name the Romans gave to the hill just outside the walls of Jerusalem where criminals were executed. The Hebrew name for the hill, 'Golgotha', means 'the place of the skull'. This was probably a reference not to the number of skulls of dead criminals may have been present there, but to the shape and appearance of the hill itself; jagged and forbidding.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Yeah, people. Jesus, why can't people just learn to spell

and how properly to communicate.

For God's sake, it's not diphikult.

[jmowreader]

13. Quick way to remember the difference

My instructor in MI school taught us this one:

Calvary is the place Jesus was crucified.

Cavalry are the people who took him there.

[KitchenWitch]

14. Thank you, that one drives me batshit crazy

[VOX]

16. "Calvary," "nukular," "Anartica," "prolly," "restauranteur," etc.

Arrrrgh! :crazy: