Comments on: What would Epicurus say? It’s hot, but don’t sweat it.

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By: barry

barry — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:19:28 +0000

there’s also a “paved with good intentions” punchline available for some savvy bumperwriter with hell on his/her mind… And I wish now I’d used a hotter than Hades headline.

By: MightyToyCannon

MightyToyCannon — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:04:53 +0000

My interpretation of the phrase “hotter ‘n the hubs of hell” is that it refers to wheel hubs that may be poorly lubricated and bearing a heavy load in a hot clime. You might find such on a chariot driven by Mr. Hades with Persephone riding shotgun.

All this brings to mind a bumper sticker I spotted: “Where are we going, and why are we in this handbasket?”

By: barry

barry — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:36:33 +0000

Sometimes I’m considered the “hubby of hell” in my house…

By: Bob Hicks

Bob Hicks — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:02:57 +0000

Hmmm. “Hotter than the underside of Hell.” Could well be Southern. The version I’m used to is “hotter than the hubs of Hell,” which I believe, although I’m not certain, I first heard from a native Midwesterner, a guy from southern Illinois. I like the image of the “hubs” of Hell, like there’s some Grand Central Station of the Underworld where harried bureaucratic demons direct incoming souls to the trains that will take them to their own particular assigned patch of eternal torment. (And why “hubs,” plural; not “hub,” singular? I can only guess that there are so many damned souls kicking around down there, a single hub won’t do. It’s like you need an O’Hare and a LaGuardia and a Houston and an Atlanta and a Logan — which absolutely qualifies as Hellish, not so much for the airport facilities themselves as for the nightmare of getting to and from there when you’re in Boston.)

Don’t know my Epicurus well, but I suspect Hell wasn’t overly on his mind!

Beer’s good on a hot day.