In the Grotto

Posted on April 29, 2006

Mitya000 and I got into this huge debate last night about the definition of a grotto whilst bumperman played the role of the armed moderator. Mitya000 defined it simply as “a place where Satanists meet”. I didn’t think that was right. So, I wikipedia’d it, and they describe it as “when it is not an artificial garden feature, is a cave, small or quite large, usually near water and often flooded or liable to flood at high tide.” The argument wasn’t about the definition so much as it was my condemnation for him defining something in terms of an uncommon use. I feel that this is equivalent to me defining a duck as “something I wear on my head while yelling the constitution backwards in my neighbor’s yard”. Yes, I could do that with a duck, but that wouldn’t really describe the essence of a duck. This debate went on and on, and ended with Mitya000 eventually claiming that all information in wikipedia was wrong because it was typed in by an overweight guy Star Wars fan living in his parents’ basement. The weird thing was, previous to that statement, he used wikipedia to lookup Satanism to prove that they do indeed meet in Grottos sometimes. Bumperman thankfully moved the conversation in the direction of old timey gingersnaps after that and kind of saved the entire evening.

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