XPost: can.general, can.politics, edm.general   
   XPost: ab.general   
   From: eric@hardknocks.edu   
      
   John Fleming wrote...   
   >   
   > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:05:06 -0600, while chained to a desk   
   > in the scriptorium pandora  wrote:   
   > > $On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:24:19 +0000, The Doctor wrote:   
   > > $> In article , John Fleming   
   > > $>  wrote:   
   > > $>>On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:10:52 -0800 (PST), while chained to a desk in the   
   > > $>>scriptorium "Mr.Smartypants"  wrote:   
   > > $>>> $On Nov 12, 2:37 pm, doc...@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote: $>   
   > > $>>> In article , $>   
   > > $>>> pandora   wrote: $> >On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:06:15   
   > > $>>> -0700, John Fleming wrote: $> >> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:47:00 GMT,   
   > > $>>> while chained to a desk in the $> >> scriptorium Duncan Patton a   
   > > $>>> Campbell  wrote: $> >>> $On Thu, 11 Nov 2010   
   > > $>>> 13:50:13 +0000, The Doctor wrote: $ $> >>> $> I am going to the   
   > > $>>> Edmonton Butterdome to lay a Wreath on behalf of $> >>> the $>   
   > > $>>> Canadian Club of Edmonton. $> >>> $>   
   > > $>>> $> >>> $> Are you attending a ceremony? $> >>> $   
   > > $>>> $> >>> $No.  Not while we are at war.  Remembrance day was originally   
   > > $>>> $a $> >>> promise to the Veterans of WW1 that this would not happen   
   > > $>>> $again. $>   
   > > $>>> $> >> Yet just a generation later we had World War 2. $>   
   > > $>>> $> >Yep.   
   > > $>>> $>   
   > > $>>> $> >> And when you think about it, perhaps the only reason the US and   
   > > $>>> USSR $> >> were never in a direct miitary conflict was because,   
   > > $>>> courtesy of the $> >> bomb, it was a war neither side could possibly   
   > > $>>> win. $>   
   > > $>>> $> >Indeed.  Being prepared to defend seemed to have worked.  War   
   > > $>>> Games $> >anyone?   
   > > $>>> $>   
   > > $>>> $> You and whose army?!   
   > > $>>> $   
   > > $>>> $Uh oh.....Yads is gonna lose it. He thinks Pandora is seeking   
   > > $>>> $popularity.   
   > > $>>   
   > > $>>Don't worry.  Images of the four horsemen of the acopalypse have him   
   > > $>>dumping in his pants.  Especially when they come riding over the hillls   
   > > $>>to the imorta music of Wagner's opera "Die Walküre"   
   > > $>   
   > > $> Step one: Rapture.   
   > > $   
   > > $I prefer Ragnarok myself.   
   >   
   > There is something to be said for spending eternity in the   
   > mead halls of the Aesir recounting past victories.   
      
   You nailed it, John.  As a kid I was read Norse mythology (d'Aulaire's   
   version).  Do parents still read to their kids?   
      
   Come to think of it, Islam has similar ideas, 'cept the mullahs read   
   them to the grownups.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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