> On Mon, 9 Feb 1998 13:04:45 -0800 (PST) "John J. Peloquin"
> <peloquin@mamba.bio.uci.edu> writes:
> >Dear Mike,
> >
> >Thanks for the clarification. As a scientist, I try to maintain an
> >informed
> >scepticism and I was just about to apologize for my doubts about the
> >murdered suicide victim.
> >
> >The lawerly questions this scenario called up reminded me very much of
> >my
> >grade school catechism classes when the parish priest would attempt to
> >
> >answer catechism questions from some very inventive (and perhaps
> >bizarre)
> >children. The typical "stump the padre" questions involved one's
> >obligations to refrain from eating meat on Fridays or mass attendence
> >when
> >you crossed the international date line or were shot into space or
> >some
> >other singularly unusual circumstance.
> >
> >"Never ascribe to Malice that which can be explained by Ignorance"
> >
> >John J. Peloquin
George Carlin has a skit related to the "stump the padre" questions
on one of his albums. I think it's either "Class Clown" or
"Occupation: Foole". VERY funny.
> I attended a pretty standard English Primary (elementary) school in
> England
> and at the age of nine was summarily kicked out of class for arguing with
> a teacher
> who told us nothing could live on other planets as here wasnt any
> air,that it could be possible for a different type of "person" (little
> green men or similar)to be able to live on Jupiter breathing the gases
> that are there rather than air! - she kept me in at playtime for a week!!
Gotta love those closed minds..
> mike robson
> 69 roadster
> 70 BGT
> 72 roadster
> (none of which were built at the time of aforementioned occurrence -
> however it was 1962, year of MGB introduction thus LBC content
> satisfied!)
>
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