![]() reaper orak the reaper lm reaper bierdver the grim reaper. Or maybe he has a universal translator that helps him understand all languages. dictionary Tureng, translate words and terms with different pronunciation options. I'm just making a point that he might be from somewhere else. ![]() and what if he speaks latin or ewok or something like that? Wow, who would have thought seeing death would make you feel hopeful? that's some serious optimism you got there, mitch. Just the fact that we see death sitting over there gives me hope that there is something more beyond life. I'd feel a whole lot better facing death if i knew for sure. and that bad people are punished for being bad.īut who decides what is good and what is bad? thinking there is someplace good we go if we lived a good life. To the h-e-double hockey sticks place down below. maybe he's doing what he can to help restore the balance that people offset through technological advancements. maybe he likes the natural order of things. death is doing his part to help the earth. trains burn much less energy than planes and cars. So death saves money and takes the train.Īnd he's being very environmentally aware too. modern medicine can keep people alive for years beyond what normally would kill them. people aren't dying as quick as they used to or as often. the bad economy is even affecting life and death. Charlie is a death merchant meaning that he finds, collects and protects. Maybe he's on a tight budget like the rest of us. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. modern medicine is keeping people alive longer. doesn't that take too long? wouldn't death be in more of a hurry? i'll just let mitch make all the jokes then.ĭeath taking the train doesn't make any sense. it's not funny if you have to explain it. His winged horse o' death didn't have the guts to go there. then after a pause, the grim reaper walks on to the train and sits alone at the left side of the train car. people are talking about their trips and their destinations and how tired or hungry they are. groups of people shuffle in and settle in to seats to the right. A Middle English expression for "have recourse to harsh measures" was to wend the grim tooth (early 13c.).A train car is empty. Grim reaper as a figurative phrase for "death" is attested by 1847 (the association of grim and death goes back at least to 17c.). The Grim Reaper is known as the personification of death across many Western mythologies, depicted holding a scythe and thought of as something fearful that. It also had a verb form in Old English, grimman (class III strong verb past tense gramm, past participle grummen), and a noun, grima "goblin, specter," perhaps also a proper name or attribute-name of a god, hence its appearance as an element in place names. Old English grimm "fierce, cruel, savage severe, dire, painful," from Proto-Germanic *grimma- (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German, German grimm "grim, angry, fierce," Old Norse grimmr "stern, horrible, dire," Swedish grym "fierce, furious"), from PIE *ghremno- "angry," which is perhaps imitative of the sound of rumbling thunder (compare Greek khremizein "to neigh," Old Church Slavonic vuzgrimeti "to thunder," Russian gremet' "thunder").Ī weaker word now than it once was sense of "dreary, gloomy" first recorded late 12c.
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