>>>It was supposed to be funny, and make people think; as I see it did.
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>>I sincerely doubt that it was intended to make people laugh. It's a rather poor (at least in my opinion) polemic against the trend to take religion out of government.
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>The trend is to get religion back into government, and the email is just a rather poor attempt to play a reductio ad absurdum on the constitutional separation, but ends up with not enough straw for the straw man.
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>The government is already faith based (I mean, common sense can't explain why are they still sitting there).
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>BTW, I don't mind working on any of the Days - I regularly find code I saved on any of them, including my birthday, ILD, etc. I'd prefer to have flexible schedules for anything, so the non-participants would 1) get a chance to make an extra buck by working when very few want, 2) those with small emergencies would still have someplace to go.
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>BTW2: are you people sure there are more than 50 bad Fridays every year? That's outright scary. Why's nobody doing anything to at least house-break them?

Since Friday evening starts the Sabbath, there are at least 52 Good Fridays every year.




Do you do make the same language posts in the non-English forums in which you participate?


Speaking of language quirks.....TCM recently ran Casablanca. There was a scene in which a German couple was showing off their command of English and the conversation went something like....

"What watch is it?"
"It is 10 watch"

It was laugh out loud funny to me........and then I had to explain to my wife why (for anyone who doesn't know German - get a dictionary and work through it). Oddly enough, when they were talking about the movie afterwards the "guest programmer" said this was his favorite scene (but didn't explain why).