(September 20, 2009 at 6:11 am)LukeMC Wrote:(September 19, 2009 at 7:57 pm)padraic Wrote: The FSM is NOT present in your excreta.
This fact has reshaped my worldview... hock:
Tangent;
Have you read "Angela Ashes" ? It's about an Irish family living in Limerick in the 1950's.
There's an hilarious bit in the book where a kid vomits in the back yard after recently having been to communion.The mammy freaks thinking she has a small puddle of Jesus on her hands.The priest is obliged to verify this is not the case.
That behaviour is pretty close to that of my dad's family. About age 4 I asked one of my beloved aunts;"What's communion? ". Her very sensible response,to a four year old; "it's a pill which makes you pray".The other would regularly withhold the weekly ration of candles from her statue of "Our Lady Of Mt Carmel" if Our Lady had failed to meet expectations that week. That darling,life long spinster aunt, was buried in the robes of a Carmelite nun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Mt._Carmel
PS I once threw up my grandfather,at about age 3. (I've been told, I don't remember)--I sneaked a sip of his poteen.