Today's Topics:
Employees must wash...
Hello?
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Employees must wash...
Organization: Locus Computing Corp./Boston, (617)229-4980 x169
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 12:22:38 EDT
From: mjl@lear.bos.locus.com
Message-ID: <9204281222.aa18835@lear.Bos.Locus.COM>
"The Rt. Rev. Wor. Dr. Y. Foo" <dryfoo@athena.mit.edu> sez:
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> I wish I was making this one up:
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> } [0336] rlcarr@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Other_Thoughts 04/22/92 10:26 (8 lines)
> } Subject: holy dollars
> } Israel's chief rabbinate says that the US dollar must be protected
> } from contamination in "unclean places" such as the bathroom because it
> } features the words "In God We Trust."
> } Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliahu ruled Tuesday that faithful Jews should
> } not carry their greenbacks into the bathroom unless the money is in a
> } pocket or purse.
> } [source - UPI]
I showed this to a Jewish colleague of mine whose reaction was:
"What I don't get is, we're made in God's image, right?
So what the hell are *WE* doing in the bathroom!?!"
Any rabbinical students out there hankering for a debate on the topic?
(Of course, SubG's know we're in there to be closer to "Bob"'s Mighty
Throne!)
yr obdnt svnt,
mjl
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Hello? From: From A to B <mathew@mantis.co.uk> Comments: Civilization is a momentary failure of entropy Message-ID: <167XJB3w164w@mantis.co.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 16:49:59 BST Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
Is this mailing list dead, or is it just not being gatewayed to the UK any more?
mathew Hamburgers for WOTAN, Inc.
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