On 4/19/05, John Forbes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a silly phrase. But Godfrey will tell you that "mass" is a sarcastic > elision of "masses of people". > > Unless of course they're designed for an attack on the Catholic church. > But why bother, when you've got Ratzinger?
YES! The Rat-man got in! I was going to bet on him, but I had no spare money with which to do so. Too bad. Now that this thread has run the gamut from cars to politics to weapons of mass destruction, I think we should now turn our sights to religion. After that, guns and abortion. Let's just get all our flame-outs on this one thread, shall we? <LOL> cheers, frank the atheist -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson