Ready - Aim - Friar

Personally, I think Josh is too scruffy here,

but this is one of my fav pics of Pete

Always a thinker, Peter Steele not only rattled off some of these phrases in his music, but he's been known to use them in everyday conversations. Sometimes if you talked with him long enough, you'd learn about how math and science are intertwined, or you'd get your vocabulary word of the day. Peter's sister Patricia thought you'd like to have a glimpse into an everyday conversation with Pete. This is why kids loved him. He loved to answer their "why questions" because he enjoyed finding out himself.

Today's word could be: Technocratic

Fibonacci numbers: By definition, the first two Fibonacci numbers are 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two: 0,1,1,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144  Fibonacci numbers are connected with the golden ratio, & appear in biological settings such as branching in trees, arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruit spouts of a pineapple, the flowering of artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone.

Zoanthropic: A kind of monomania in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.

Lupine (Characteristic of or resembling a wolf; Rapacious; ravenous).

Avagadro’s number (constant) In chemistry and physics,constant is defined as the ratio of the number of entities (usually atoms or molecules) in a sample to the amount of substance. Thus it is the proportionality factor that relates the mass per amount of substance, to the mass of the entity, and it has the value 6.02214179(30)×1023 mol-1.

Also, Pat found a few more Peter-isms that are worth a mention. Many of you have been gracious enough to include your own favorites in your FB posts and comments here. What do you think of these:

Faith Lift

Concentration Campers

Re-Erection

Praise the Lured

The Gardeners of Eden

Boston, Masspsychosis

Deaf Penalty


Denmark 1997 Interview with Josh and Peter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JRgo8O7_LE