tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376223885962725313.post5534966328232564835..comments2022-09-08T01:59:21.584-05:00Comments on ellen has an opinion . . .: top ten (well, actually fifteen) blog comments so farellenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15216639533812087840noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376223885962725313.post-91674762203054176892010-02-22T10:32:14.820-06:002010-02-22T10:32:14.820-06:00WOO-HOO! I made the list! Thank you! =)WOO-HOO! I made the list! Thank you! =)Corynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376223885962725313.post-20633785313158024732010-02-20T23:37:52.096-06:002010-02-20T23:37:52.096-06:00i'm so honored to be included in your favorite...i'm so honored to be included in your favorite comments. i'm a follower of your blog too now that i know you, but i'm not very faithful at commenting.<br /><br />this all reminds me i need to renew my library books before i go to bed.Melissa Stoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12839619836478423452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376223885962725313.post-60073756911008405112010-02-20T14:22:18.076-06:002010-02-20T14:22:18.076-06:00Mac--Sounds like an Ur closer to Haran is more lik...Mac--Sounds like an Ur closer to Haran is more likely. I love our history book we are doing even if it does have a few minor errors. I figure the girls will get just as much (or more) accurate info from it than they would from public-school history. Gives us more to talk about, too, especially when you give us something else to add and consider. But I still think the indoor plumbing version improves the faith story.Michellenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376223885962725313.post-89801255611361425582010-02-19T13:56:19.137-06:002010-02-19T13:56:19.137-06:00Warning: the following is information which nobody...Warning: the following is information which nobody cares about and which may make the author of this comment appear like an uninteresting and slightly pretentious adjunct Bible professor desperate to show that he's read at least two books about the Old Testament. Continue reading at your own risk. <br />---------------------<br />Michelle's comment about Ur, which I hadn't read, sent me back to a book I was reading about OT backgrounds earlier in the year. According to Hill and Walton's excellent book, Old Testament Today, there is a lively scholarly debate about whether the Ur associated with Abraham is the famous city in southern Mesopotamia or a smaller less significant Ur in the North. Chronologically there are some problems with locating Abraham in the southern Ur though that has been the traditional view. The northern Ur is much closer to Haran which is where Abram set out from. However, the debate continues, and the comment about indoor plumbing is wonderful, so I wouldn't give it up. Just thought that you might be interested. <br />---------------------<br />I absolutely do not expect this comment to make the next "best of" list as it involves me being wordy but in a boring "who cares" kind of way instead of the charming and amusing fashion that you, dear author, so often employ. Perhaps the self-deprecation will soften the blow.Snopes Wannabehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376223885962725313.post-14929159408387288352010-02-19T13:54:32.199-06:002010-02-19T13:54:32.199-06:00First of all, even if you writing this blog just f...First of all, even if you writing this blog just for me, it would totally be worth it. <br /><br />Second, I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not, but I laughed out loud more times at this post than at any other one. <br /><br />Third, even though I check comments, I'd missed some of those and am glad that I've read them now. <br /><br />Finally, I feel like China at the Olympics. I mean when you've got 1/3 of the earth's population living in your country it always stings when some little pee-ant country with 3 athletes comes along and beats you at something. I'm pretty sure that I've posted about 25 times as many comments as Robyn, and yet, there she is on the list 4 times, and me, only thrice. It's really pretty pathetic.Sad Chinaman...dude Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian American please.http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympic-medals/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-376223885962725313.post-65983577318631556662010-02-19T13:36:37.558-06:002010-02-19T13:36:37.558-06:00It seems I underestimate myself as a commenter. Th...It seems I underestimate myself as a commenter. That, or you really didn't have much to work with. Glad there's a blog for me to be funny on.<br />RLERob-Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01871900185090584524noreply@blogger.com