Post #291,798
8/28/07 4:03:32 PM
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Xians don't read this. Rand, Ashton?
I guess the discussion below made me remember this, but I can't know for sure. My father told me the following limerick with a great deal of trepidation as I recall. I think I was about eight or nine years old when I heard it. My failing memory is that my father attributed it to Dylan Thomas, but I can find no reference to it. I'd ask my father, but several years ago he discovered that Jesus was lost and so he found him. At any rate, here's the limerick as best I remember it and if you know who penned it, I'd like to know. TIA.
There was an old buggar named God,
Who got into a virgin's pod.
The result of this behavior
Gave us Jesus Christ our savior,
Who died on a cross, poor sod.
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #291,808
8/28/07 5:22:26 PM
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byron or joyce? sound like bog to me
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
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Post #291,810
8/28/07 5:28:22 PM
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You implyin' I don't like a good bad joke? :-)
One of my favorites:
Jesus is on the cross, saying, "Peter, come to me!"
Peter shouts, "Yes, Lord!"
When Peter crosses hill and dale to reach him, he asks, "What is it, Lord?"
Jesus responds, "I can see your house from here!"
Smile,
Amy
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Post #291,829
8/28/07 9:03:00 PM
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I know Christians who'd like that.
They wouldn't repeat it in certain company, of course, but they'd find it funny. :-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #291,831
8/28/07 9:14:44 PM
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It's listed as "unknown" in a post on Usenet.
[link|http://groups.google.com/group/alt.flame.jesus.christ/browse_thread/thread/227549580f1e9064?tvc=2&hl=en|alt.flame.jesus.christ].
That's the only place I've found it so far.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #291,842
8/28/07 10:39:33 PM
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Usenet?
There is still a usenet? Ahhh, the alt (German anyone?) tree. Man, good times.
Let us know if you find a reference in FIDO so we can update our browsers...
Just a few thoughts,
Danno
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Post #291,847
8/28/07 10:50:13 PM
8/28/07 10:55:38 PM
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:-D Never had the pleasure (?) of using FIDOnet.
Other than a teletype terminal in high school, my earliest network exposure was on a [link|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO|PLATO] terminal in the very early 1980s. I never got into it, though.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #291,858
8/28/07 11:37:25 PM
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Umm... getting back on topic
I think I heard that limerick "back in the day" in Morse code. Or it could have just been the crickets (or the damned aliens) messing with my head.
Just a few thoughts,
Satyrist
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Post #291,855
8/28/07 11:34:25 PM
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I used to be on FidoNet.
Even had a Point for a while.
Wade, who remembers with some fondness offline mail readers, echos, BBSing...
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne. | · my ·
· [link|http://staticsan.livejournal.com/|blog] ·
· [link|http://yceran.org/|website] · |
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Post #291,861
8/28/07 11:47:58 PM
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Damn we're getting old...
I never had a point, but I sure flooded the pool (modem pool for all you whippersnappers). I went for the pun on the alt tree, but I wish I had a dime for all the hours I spent in alt.* (it wasn't always alt.binaries.pictures.* either - and if you know what I mean, then I don't care what you think). Although at 1200/2400 baud, you couldn't get too crazy. Sorry I couldn't get to the bash this year as I would have really liked to have had the opportunity to meet you.
A quick Google took me to a FidoNet main site, but it had the use/rules last updated in 1989. 1989... way prior to Mosaic or Spyglass, but about the same time as CompuServe and AOL's emergence/prominence. RIP FIDO and UseNet.
Just a few thoughts,
Satyrist
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