Today's Topics:
"Don't hesitate to pray imprecatory Psalms over then."
Sloganeering
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From: "J. Cooper" <coop@cs.bu.edu>
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 10:53:17 -0500 (EST)
Re: eclipse questions to the museum
I can't tell if that's funny or not.
Goddamn, aren't people just stupid? Rescheduling an eclipse?
coop
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 21:54:49 -0500
From: faster than a rolling o <woj@remus.rutgers.edu>
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Organization: <a href="http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/">wojpage</a>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: "Don't hesitate to pray imprecatory Psalms over then."
* * * F R E E D O M W R I T E R * * *
P R E S S R E L E A S E
Religious Right Issues 'Hit List' of Democrats
The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert, a Washington, DC-based Religious Right
organization, is urging its members to petition God to bring evil upon a
published list of 25 Democratic candidates. The so-called "Philistine
List" includes two governors, seven senators, and 16 members of the House.
According to Harry Valentine, one of the group's founders, the list
comprises "particularly objectionable candidates, mostly incumbents who
have demonstrated themselves to be enemies of Christianity and Biblical
morality."
"Don't hesitate to pray imprecatory Psalms over them," wrote Valentine
in the group's newsletter. "Imprecatory" means to "call down evil upon."
Imprecatory Psalms include: "Let his days be few; and let another take his
office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow" (Psalm
109:8,9). "Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into
hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them" (Psalm 55:15). "The
righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his
feet in the blood of the wicked" (Psalm 58:10).
The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert meets in a town house across the street
from the U.S. Supreme Court. It is understood that Justice Clarence Thomas
visits the ministry on occasion.
The Capitol Hill Prayer Alert operated a booth at the Christian
Coalition's national Road to Victory conference, held in September at the
Washington Hilton. During that conference, Rev. Pierre Bynum, another
leader of the Prayer Alert, told The Freedom Writer newsletter that he
believed that abortion is a capital offense and that doctors who perform
abortions should be executed. Bynum also called homosexuality a capital
offense.
For years, anti-abortionists have used imprecatory prayers against
doctors who perform abortions. Coupled with wanted posters of doctors,
this type of activity has taken its toll. Repeated imprecatory prayer can be
auto-suggestive, especially to unbalanced members of the prayer groups.
According to Skipp Porteous of the Institute for First Amendment Studies,
"After continual reinforcement it doesn't take much for a religious
fanatic to 'hear the voice of God' and then go out and shoot someone."
The Institute for First Amendment Studies, founded in 1984, defends
First Amendment freedoms with particular emphasis on the separation of
church and state. Based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the group is
national in scope. For more information, contact frdmwriter@aol.com.
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| THE PHILISTINE LIST |
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| GOVERNORSHIPS: HOUSE: |
| Gov. Mario Cuomo (D-NY) Rep. Tom Foley (D-WA) |
| Gov. Ann Richards (D-TX) Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-CO) |
| Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO) |
| SENATE: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) |
| Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) |
| Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) |
| Sen. Bob Kerry (D-NE) Rep. Vic Fasio (D-CA) |
| Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) Rep. Leslie Byrne (D-VA) |
| Sen. Jim Sasser (D-TN) Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN) |
| Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) |
| Sen. Harris Wofford (D-PA) Rep. Jack Brooks (D-TX) |
| ------------------------------- Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) |
| "Give special attention to the Rep. Gerry Studds (D-MA) |
| enclosed Philistine List. Don't Rep. Henry Gonzales (D-TX) |
| hesitate to pray imprecatory Rep. James Moran (D-VA) |
| Psalms over them." Rep. Karan English (D-AZ) |
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| Capitol Hill Prayer Alert * October 26, 1994 |
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 22:02:06 -0500
From: faster than a rolling o <woj@remus.rutgers.edu>
Message-Id: <199411130302.WAA14255@remus.rutgers.edu>
Organization: <a href="http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/">wojpage</a>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Sloganeering
From "American Demographics" magazine
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Here's a look at how shrewd American business people translate
their slogans into foreign languages:
When Braniff translated a slogan touting its upholstery, "Fly
in leather," it came out in Spanish as "Fly naked."
Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it
was read as "Suffer from diarrhea."
Chicken magnate Frank Perdue's line, "It takes a tough man to
make a tender chicken," sounds much more interesting in Spanish:
"It takes a sexually stimulated man to make a chicken affectionate."
When Vicks first introduce its cough drops on the German
market, they were chagrined to learn that the German pronunciation
of "v" is f - which in German is the guttural equivalent of "sexual
penetration."
Not to be outdone, Puffs tissues tried later to introduce its
product, only to learn that "Puff" in German is a colloquial term
for a whorehouse. The English weren't too fond of the name
either, as it's a highly derogatory term for a non-heterosexual.
The Chevy Nova never sold well in Spanish speaking countries.
"No va" means "it doesn't go" in Spanish.
When Pepsi started marketing its products in China a few years
back, they translated their slogan, "Pepsi Brings You Back to Life"
pretty literally. The slogan in Chinese really meant, "Pepsi Brings
Your Ancestors Back from the Grave."
When Coca-Cola first shipped to China, they named the product
something that when pronounced sounded like "Coca-Cola." The only
problem was that the characters used meant "Bite the wax tadpole."
They later changed to a set of characters that mean "Happiness in
the mouth."
A hair products company, Clairol, introduced the "Mist Stick",
a curling iron, into Germany only to find out that mist is slang for
manure. Not too many people had use for the manure stick.
When Gerber first started selling baby food in Africa, they
used the same packaging as here in the USA - with the cute baby on
the label. Later they found out that in Africa companies routinely
put pictures on the label of what's inside since most people can't
read.
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