>>>>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010300075.html
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>>>>>What, in the name of all sanity, would be the point of having a Muslim who believes in the Koran and not the Bible, swear an oath on the Bible? Might as well have him swear on a cookbook.
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>>>>A phone book would be more interesting - at least, the personae dramatis in it contains more interesting people :).
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>>>To which my wife adds: and the voters' names are in there.
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>>Hey, next time you will suggect checkbook.
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>Much better. Everybody believes in the checkbook.

I knew a rich young lady in college who may have believed in it too much. One day she mentioned that she had gotten a phone call from her father, who said his banker buddy called him to say her account was overdrawn. (Presumably offering her dad to replenish the account like a gentleman, with no need for overdraft charges as the great unwashed get hit with). "How can I be overdrawn?" she said. "I still have checks left."