Podcasts about portentous

Something that is portentous often seems to hint at or warn of a future disaster. For example, in a movie ominous music playing in the background while someone turns a dark corner can have a portentous quality, predicting doom for the hapless character.

Portentous is the word of the day

Not a Pregnant Pause, Life, the Universe and Everything, Beasts, Last Voyage of the Dememter, Gretel and Hansel, No One Will Save You, Ahsoka, Foundation, Good Omens, Loki, Lisey's Story, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, Michael Gambon, Black Snow, The Long Shadow, Audio-Technica's Slow Support, Is the Raspberry Pi 5 Worth It?, Death Threat Follow-Up and Doorstep Seller Aggro, And Then There's the Car, the Plumbing, and Sir Clanky, New Revisit Show

Not a Pregnant Pause, Life, the Universe and Everything, Beasts, Last Voyage of the Dememter, Gretel and Hansel, No One Will Save You, Ahsoka, Foundation, Good Omens, Loki, Lisey's Story, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, Michael Gambon, Black Snow, The Long Shadow, Audio-Technica's Slow Support, Is the Raspberry Pi 5 Worth It?, Death Threat Follow-Up and Doorstep Seller Aggro, And Then There's the Car, the Plumbing, and Sir Clanky, New Revisit Show

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 7, 2023 is: portentous • por-TEN-tuss • adjective Portentous is a formal and literary term that describes something that gives a sign or warning that something (and usually something bad or unpleasant) is going to happen. It can also describe the pompous attitude or behavior of someone who is trying to seem important, serious, or impressive. // Edgar Allan Poe's stories are filled with portentous foreshadowing. // The author's portentous speech was long and tedious and peppered with anecdotes about brushes with fame. See the entry > Examples: “Let me begin with the rainstorm. My Much Better Half and I are having our kitchen and downstairs guest bathroom remodeled. ‘Don't expect smooth sailing,' we were forewarned. This proved a portentous metaphor because returning from my daily run I opened the front door and found myself in need of a boat. While I was out, a worker clogged and broke the toilet … and it runneth over continuously for an hour or more.” — Woody Woodburn, Ventura County (California) Star, 11 Aug. 2023 Did you know? “If it wasn't for bad luck / You know I wouldn't have no luck at all.” So sang Albert King on the 1967 song “Born Under a Bad Sign,” written by Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. and the MG's) and soul singer William Bell. He may have been singing about the ominous portent of being born during an unfavorable astrological alignment, but the classic tune became a standard of the blues. Portents are also at the heart of the adjective portentous, which describes things forewarning future events—usually events of the bad luck variety. Both portent and portentous come from the Latin noun portentum, meaning “omen or sign.” Since entering English in the 15th century, portentous has picked up additional senses, including “grave, solemn, significant” (as in “burdened with making portentous decisions”), which was added to our dictionary in 1934. It's more recently moved into less estimable semantic territory, describing both the pompous and the excessive.

A significant teaching about the meaning of the book of Isaiah, King Hezekiah as the Messiah, and the true meaning of the prophecy of the virgin birth. Here's the real story behind some of the New Testament's best-known quotations of Isaiah. A real darama full of intrigue. Download the original class handout as a PDF below.

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The Heroes find themselves preparing for their final showdown with the forces of Darkness. Collecting their wits they find images of distant places and talk with those who train and those who call. Ben Yendall as the GM Leslie Trautman is playing Lord, High Lord, Ghillary Al'aurochWren Knowles is playing Skipp GobiBrandon Perdue is playing … Continue reading "Chronicles of the Gatekeeper – Act 3 Episode 6 – “A Portentous Interview”"

In the final episode, Portentous gives her bridal speech, gets us up to date with what her family, friends and enemies are up to, details the slight hitch to her Winterval nuptuals and informs us all of her next adventure. To the future! Have a hip flask.

The 42 stops on the way to the Promised Land. Portentous?

In this Summer Special, Portentous is home at last. Hear about what she's been up to in Nanoclown Quarantine, her Medieval Type Quest to create a portal home from her time loop prison, and how Happiness accidentally destroyed a skyscraper (albeit just the one).

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We run from Penelope to alcoholism as Thorensen's last prayer comes to its end in Annihilation minute 74.

In this summer special, Portentous is still missing so in the place of her usual column, the paper literally just plays half an hour of adverts. Find out about Barry Island's monkey-proof fencing, Saffron Walden's Vegan Meats, the upcoming Global Election and the fun, fun harmless hobby of gambling. Guest starring Clarissa Maycock, Frog Stone, Gareth Gwynn, Ben Partridge, Nat Metcalfe, Meabh de Brun, Jon Hunter, Jenny Laville & Max Davis

The wedding devolves into chaos. Unearthly powers collide and the Lady Rowan unleashes destructive power that threatens to wipe out the entire quest. Part 3/4 of the grand finale of Quest for the Book of Dawn 4: The Fairy Wedding Featuring @BrenCasts (https://twitter.com/BrenCasts) as Thoras, @DriftwoodAsh (https://twitter.com/DriftwoodAsh) as Lysha Norwalyn, @SideshowGaming (https://twitter.com/SideshowGaming) as Allan O'Dale, @UberShouts (https://twitter.com/UberShouts) as Eren Vol, and @TrmntdByGnomes (https://twitter.com/TrmntdByGnomes) as the Dungeon Master. Follow @CastersnCastles (https://twitter.com/CastersnCastles) on twitter for more adventures!

In this Quarantined Special, Portentous documents in her personal journal how she's been spending her time trapped in the time loop in 2216. Mostly, she's been hiding from Senator Cthulu and his plague of Nano Clowns. How is she going to get out of this one? (Probably Science).

Having accidentally Leaped into Cecily Spokeswoman due to Beckett's Theorem, Professor Von Pun is able to send us one of his traditional festive Round Robins, in the form of an audio file that cannot be stopped or muted. Discover how the Professor escaped Mars, brought festive cheer to Earth and had a lovely time with Moriarty at the Arctic Ocean Center Parcs.

Portentous fawns, a fever of trees and a paralysis of hoofed ruminant mammals - we're going down to the woods today and Caroline B Cooney says it's Where the Deer Are! Join Kirsty Logan and Heather Parry to lovingly dissect the best (and worst) of 90s teen horror. Point Horror, Goosebumps, Fear Street, slasher films – we love it all. Follow on Twitter @teenagescream_ and Instagram @teenagescreampod to join the conversation and request future books. If you like what we're doing and want to join the community, you can become a patron at www.patreon.com/teenagescreampodcast Thank you to Susie McConnell for our catchy theme tune, and to Jean Merrick for the badass logo (which you know you want as a pin badge...)

It's Halloween 2219 & Cecily Spokeswoman has lots of festive messages for us from the corporate Martian overlords at Googapplmazon McUnilever, now that the megacorporation has bought sole rights to Halloween and the emotion known as 'fear'. Her main message is 'do not be afraid of the spacetime rifts opening up all over the place.' They really are nothing to worry about. Featuring Frog Stone as Cecily Spokeswoman, Alec Chapman as Professor Von Pun, Guy Kelly as Happiness George, Natt Tapley as the Gentleman an Gabby Hutchinson Crouch as everyone else.

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The Quantum of Happiness: Our non-brand specific home AI has a recording from the vault for us - part of Happiness George's memoirs as he recounts his first meeting with Portentous, in which he did not get to eat any chocolates at all. He does, however, get a biscuit. Guest written by Jess Mersky, guest starring Guy Kelly as Happiness.

With Professor Von Pun still mysteriously missing, this year's Evil Round Robin comes from a minor Moriarty. Cast out by all the other Moriarties for not being Moriartyish enough, the Moriarty from the movie Young Sherlock Holmes finds himself delivered from despair by a visit from a kindly guardian angel, who shows him he's a wonderful Moriarty, and also has a lot of Winterval Dinners to eat. Guest Stars Alec Chapman as The Moriarty.

With Portentous and the gang still missing, it falls upon Skellington Bones, the Old Intern, to put together a very special Halloween broadcast this year, with spine chilling reports from Honora O'Malley and Cecily Spokeswoman, and a letter to the editor from an irate Monkey Butler. Dare you brave the tale of the ghost from the Welsh town of Port Myntw? Guest stars Brendan Dodds, Meabh de Brun, Frog Stone & Paul Jenkins.

Episode 17: Let's Kill Cthulu. Von Pun & The Gentleman arrive in their Time Machine and tell the gang that due to a paradox they must travel back in time and kill President Cthulu, but there's a chance that this will cause a time loop. Von Pun & The Gentleman arrive in their Time Machine and tell the gang that due to a paradox they must travel back in time and kill President Cthulu, but there's a chance that this will cause a time loop.

Episode 16: Baby, I'm a-Mazed. Believing Professor Von Pun & The Gentleman to not actually be Definitely Dead This Time, merely mysteriously missing, Portentous and the gang partner up once more with Lupin Savant to find them. They are not expecting, however, to fall into a deadly, intricate torture maze, filled with danger, an extremely muddled aesthetic and an awful lot of jumpsuits.

Episode 15: Time, The Gentleman, Please. In this Anniversary episode, Portentous is given 200 year old recordings which appear to have been made by The Gentleman, who has only been and gone and got himself stuck in a cupboard in the distant past, the absolute ninny. Guest Starring Natt Tapley as The Gentleman.

Episode 14: Daisy Daisy. Erudition is summoned once again by the League of Adventuresses, to help them rescue Daisy, an android flower girl, from the clutches of a mysterious professor and his Gentlema... OK, it's clearly Von Pun who's kidnapped her. As the gang go about their heist, it seems that love - and music - is in the air.

Episode 13: A Distinctly Domestic Affair. Foreign Affairs Correspondent Honora o'Malley reports from a society wedding (look - it's an overseas story to her, she's Irish) where guests Portentous, Erudition & Happiness get into trouble with a mountain of cheesy doom, some very suspicious photographers and the one wedding ring to rule them all. Guest written by and starring Meabh de Brun.

All the planning and set up in the world will never count for anything if you never start your webcomic, so just put your own to paper and begin! “Getting started on a webcomic” is what we chat about here. I was inspired by PitFace's newspost about a crappy horror film and how the creators just went for it. As a webcomicer that is what you HAVE to do! You can plan, research and gather resources for years, but the reality is that it just makes you more and more scared to take the plunge. You'll develop a LOT faster as a webcomicer if you throw caution to the wind and go for it. I'm not saying that research and planning are uneeded, it's just that most if it can be done while you're actually working. Do not worry about putting out a perfect piece of genius work from the getgo- your comic WILL get there regardless if you're dedicated and put the work in AS you work, but the first few pages or chapters don't have to be there. Your audience will appreciate the chance to grow with you a lot more than if you put out a polished gem to begin with. Starting out at a place like Drunk Duck is your best bet. It's a nurturing, easy to use, creator run platform, focussed around promoting webcomics. So what are you waiting for? This week Gunwallace has given us the theme to Flesh and Wires: Dirty and distorted electric guitar and determined fuzzy bass, weaving together over a haunting synthesized Melodica. Portentous and evocative, this music tells a story in it's own runtime! The main riff reminds me a little of my fave part for We don't Need Another Hero from Tina Turner. Topics and shownotes Featured comic: Kawaiidolia - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/feb/27/featured-comic-kawaiidolia/ Pit-Face, Asshole in a mask - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/mar/03/all-you-need-is-an-asshole-in-a-mask/ How to get into webcomics - https://twitter.com/Blackmudpuppy/status/969773241198960640 Special thanks to: Gunwallace - http://www.virtuallycomics.com PitFace - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/PIT_FACE/ Tantz Aerine - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Tantz_Aerine/ kawaiidaigakusei - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/kawaiidaigakusei/ Banes - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/banes Emma Clare - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/Emma_Clare/ Ozoneocean - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/user/ozoneocean Featured music: Flesh and Wires - http://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Flesh_and_Wires/, - by ngrootendorst, rated M.

Episode 12: One Of Our Draculas Is Missing. Portentous shares clandestine footage taken during her undercover investigation to locate the missing Dracula recently stolen by gangsters from St Bart's As Seen On BBC's Sherlock Hospital. A new uneasy alliance is made, and a new enemy is discovered. Guest starring Alec Chapman and Alex Crouch.

Episode 11: The Sad Story of Rosebud The Childhood Sledge. A special episode commemorating the life and work of media mogul The 7th Lord McKenzie, who built a vast broadcasting empire and fortune from nothing but an inherited vast broadcasting empire and fortune, and who also had a beloved childhood sledge, which he called Rosebud.

Episode 10: The Island of Agony. The Synonyms are approached by their old ally, the great android detective Lupin Savant, for their assistance in locating a number of missing Monkey Butlers, thought to have been taken prisoner on the ominous Island of Agony by some mysterious Scientist of clearly Evil persuasion. Twists, turns, jetpacks and improbable System Updates await our heroes.

In this Festive Special, we get our annual unsolicited round robin from Professor Von Pun, detailing in particular a curious event that happened to him and The Gentleman at a works do. Guest starring Alec Chapman as Von Pun.

Episode 8 - Seeds Of Doom: The Vault. In the 2nd part of this 2 part adventure, the Synonyms travel to the lost seed vault of Svalbard, along with their mysterious allies Agda Nordstrom, Helga Northface and Dame Hillary Scott. There they must face sand dunes, a cryptic horse, more scientists and a shocking discovery. Guest written by Jess Mersky.

Episode 7 - Seeds of Doom: The Custom of the Sea. In the first thrilling instalment of a two part adventure, Portentous journeys with Erudition, Happiness and her Doomy Uncle Ogilvy to find The Lost Seed Vault Of Svalbard. First, however, they must negotiate a dangerous, possibly doomed, sea voyage. Guest written by Jess Mersky.

In this Halloween Special, Portentous has committed to doing a fun little live feed. There's nothing terrible going on outside. Do not approach your windows. Guest stars Max Davis & Frog Stone

Episode 5 - Settling Old Scores. Erudition is invited to CERN, the coolest lab in the world, to bear witness to the manifestation of John Williams, who was lost to the void during the Great Hadron Collider Proms Disaster. However, the gang face terrible consequences when a horrific creature crawls out from the rift in spacetime. This episode is a musical!

Episode 4 - Death and/or Consequences. Portentous and Erudition have to deal with a mysterious haunted portrait and the small matter of lovely Happiness' possible demise. Guest written by Jess Mersky. Contains a free audio voucher!

Episode 3 - The League Under The Sea. Portentous & Happiness join Dr Synonym as she's summoned to help the League of Scientific Gal Pals track down a missing member... to the Lost City of Atlantis.

Episode 2: The Monkey Butler Did It. After Aunt Erudition's monkey butler Jenkins is framed for murder, the gang travel to Paris to seek the assistance of Lupin Savant, an android detective so genius that he has to be programmed with terrible character flaws to make him more narratively interesting.

Episode 1 - Aunt Erudition. The year is 2217. Plucky journalist Portentous Synonym reports back from a voyage of scientific discovery to the secret bio lab of her Aunt. Alas, what she finds there could have deadly consequences.

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