Good to see some of us still have a sense of humor. We are the sultans of swing :D
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 27, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Bob Richmond <rsrichm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think this thread is the longest I've seen in fifteen years on > Histonet! I find the joke a little lame, but the thread gets funnier > and funnier. > > If the joke gives offense, it's because its writer clearly has only a > very dim idea of Catholic practice (either Roman or Anglican - I'm an > Episcopalian). It would be lot funnier if these details were > rewritten. > > Lesley Weston then tried to tell a comparable story from Jewish > history, only to have it intercepted by his corporate netnanny, > apparently because it contained the word J-w. I think of playwright > Herman Wouk's book about his Orthodox faith he published about 50 > years ago - "This Is My God" is I think the most profound work of > religious apologetic written in the 20th century - well, maybe C.S. > Lewis's "Mere Christianity" - Wouk the playwright wryly observed that > the word J-w uttered on the stage is always a shocker. > > As an aside, when you forward anything on the Web, make sure always to > delete all the accumulated e-mail addresses in it - they're an > invitation to spammers. > > Bob Richmond > Samurai Pathologist > Knoxville TN > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
