Today's Topics:
Descended from the Testicles of the Bossie Cow
foucault's pendulum
masonic symbols
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From: "Richard L. Rosen" <rlr@panix.com>
Message-Id: <9201252005.AA00433@panix.com>
Subject: Descended from the Testicles of the Bossie Cow
To: mc.lcs.mit.edu!Subgenius@cmcl2.nyu.edu
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 15:05:39 EST
In the immortal words of someone-or-other (sorry):
> The Masons _claim_ descent from the Knights Templar. I 'm not buying it
> (because ``Bob'' didn 't sell it to me---remember ``Bob''? No, I think
> not).
The great thing about claiming to be descended from a previously existing
(maybe) and possibly no-longer-existent secret organization is:
a) if the secret organization no longer exists, who's gonna argue with you?
2) if the secret organization never existed, who's gonna argue with you?
L) if the secret organization did exist and even does exist and it really
is a SEEKRIT organization whose members kept its secrets,
who's gonna argue with you?
That's why the First (or is it Twentythird?) Law of Conspiracy Theory holds.
All secret organizations can be said to be connected to one another because
if anyone else really and truly KNEW otherwise, they wouldn't tell you...
Would they?
(Unless of course it for the purpose of convincing you that what they were
saying wasn't true...)
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From: phy6jem@sun.leeds.ac.uk
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 13:38:05 GMT
Message-Id: <25988.9201251338@sun021.sun.leeds.ac.uk>
To: kukuresn@ibm3090.computer-centre.birmingham.ac.uk,
subgenius <@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk:subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: foucault's pendulum
Last week I was passing through Paris and decided to look in on
the Academie des Arts et des Metiers where the Pendulum is to be
found. Yes, its just off the Rue Temple and the area is full of
Rosicrucian bookshops and the like. The museum is exactly as
described in the book, creepy, ramshackle and full of dusty
incomprehensible displays. The section where the pendulum is
is marvelous; a mediaeval church full of old cars, bikes and
rusting bits of steam engines etc. There's a narrow gauge rail track
running round the wall that goes off into the railway gallery.
At one end there's large model of the statue of liberty and
what appears to be part of a rocket (ariane?) engine. The
pendulum swings in the gloom amongst all this junk.
Unfortunately, on the day I was there, the upstairs section was
closed to the public. I expect they were still cleaning up
after the satanic rituals the night before.
Oh, and the price has gone up since Umberto was there. Its now
20ff which I rate as a real bargain, especially if you spend the
night in it instead of booking a hotel.
When in Paris, ignore the Louvre and the Beaubourg, visit the
pendulum instead.
GAW
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Message-Id: <9201251407.AA06690@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 92 06:07:15 PST
From: "Alan H. Martin 25-Jan-1992 0909" <amartin@tle.enet.dec.com>
To: bob@tle.enet.dec.com
Cc: amartin@tle.enet.dec.com
Subject: masonic symbols
>From: William Marrs <viewpnt!bill@uunet.uu.net>
>Um, look on the back of one of the dollar bills in your pocket...
>
>Eye in the Pyramid!
>
>1992-1776 = 216 years old (Not bad for a Masonic country)
I thought that number looked familiar, so I checked further with the Devil's
Command Language:
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT 6*6*6
216
$
/AHM/QED
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