Today's Topics:
Dan White was a desperate man
look and feel
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 17:44:54 PDT
From: "Andrew Scott Beals, KC6SSS" <autodesk!melange!abeals@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Message-Id: <9110100044.AA28275@melange.YP.acad>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Dan White was a desperate man
Twinkies only come in two-packs.
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From: "Richard L. Rosen" <panix!rlr@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
Message-Id: <9110090636.AA08837@panix.com>
Subject: look and feel
To: mc.lcs.mit.edu!Subgenius@cmcl2.nyu.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 91 2:36:04 EDT
In the immortal words of Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>...
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> In a surprising move today, Judaism filed suit against the Catholic
> Church, claiming Catholicism copied the "look and feel" of the
> religion. Judaism, which has held the patent on the concept of a
> monotheistic religion for over 3500 years as well as the copyright on
> Yaweh(R) and the Old Testament(C), is suing for 2000 years of back
> royalties. They are also asking that the court disallow the use of
> the term "Judeo-Christian" from all textbooks.
I heard that the Supreme Being Court is hearing arguments as we speak. The
Catholic Church claims that use of a "Holy Trinity" instead of a single
incorporeal deity, changing the familiar Star of David to a simpler-to-
understand cross icon (now in 3D with Vatican System II), providing the
added feature of weekly confession download (instead of saving it up for
an entire year), and the exemption from a number of dietary limitations
makes Catholicism a completely new product--not to mention all the Pagan
features they stole... er, added.
> The Pope was unavailable for comment, but a spokesman from the Vatican
> stated the suit was unfounded as the patent on the concepts shared by
> the two religions has long expired, and that the suit violates the
> separation of church and state. Industry commentators point out that
> monotheism actually was developed in Pharonic Egypt, although the
> Egyptians failed to market it successfully.
That's because the Pyramid-Ankh Research Center was woefully negligent in
patenting its religious concepts and in enforcing those patents.
Talks between Catholics and Freemasons have been going on for some time, with
the Catholic Church recently licensing the Masonic handshake for a new ritual.
Industry leaders were bemused by this somewhat unusual alliance, but Jewish
leader V. Gates told reporters that any new product that came out of this
he "could get for you wholesale."
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Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
Rich Rosen rlr@panix.com
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