72 virgins

[downbeatplumb]

72 virgins?

Are you going to a game convention, Leon?

Whats with the 72 virgins thing? 

Why not 75 or 100, 72 seems a bit of a random number.

[Minimalist]

If you read this horseshit in the original Syriac it turns into "raisins" not "virgins."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/j...ianreview5

Luxenberg tries to show that many obscurities of the Koran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic. We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg 's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris. Luxenberg claims that the context makes it clear that it is food and drink that is being offerred, and not unsullied maidens or houris.

Of course.... that would force muslims to admit that their precious koran originated outside of Arabia and they'd rather amputate their scrotums with a broken bottle than do that!

[SaStrike]

72 is 24 x 3

That's one hymen you get to break every 20 minutes. The next day they won't be virgins though.

Rumour has it that if you pray all 5 times a day their virginity gets restored by midnight. Don't miss your prayers boys.

[Minimalist]

What kind of moron would want 72 women yammering in their ears all day?

I find one quite sufficient.

[Succubus]

As the man said:
What if they're all Duran Duran fans? That's not heaven, that's hell!

[vorlon13]

Heck, the local Safeway could fix up packs of 72 of these things no problem . . . .

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and a halol version would be a good idea too . . .