Re: ot: Don't mention the Pope.

[Phil Launchbury]

In article <Xns95D7A0E1447Bguinnessisgood@216.196.97.142>, tallbloke wrote:
> Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote in
> news:slrnctt9et.7ta.phill@tabby.launchbury.org.uk:
>
>> In article <pan.2005.01.05.19.37.20.354829@deadspam.com>, Verdigris wrote:
>
>>> That sounds like changing reality to me.
>>
>> That's what having the power of God can do for you (aka the Holy
>> Spirit. As opposed to the unholy spirit - aka whisky :-) )
>>
>> Since we don't have it now the question is moot.
>
> We don't have what? the power of God?

The power to do miracles..

Phil

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[Champ]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury
<phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:

>In article <Xns95D7A0E1447Bguinnessisgood@216.196.97.142>, tallbloke wrote:
>> Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote in
>> news:slrnctt9et.7ta.phill@tabby.launchbury.org.uk:
>>
>>> In article <pan.2005.01.05.19.37.20.354829@deadspam.com>, Verdigris wrote:
>>
>>>> That sounds like changing reality to me.
>>>
>>> That's what having the power of God can do for you (aka the Holy
>>> Spirit. As opposed to the unholy spirit - aka whisky :-) )
>>>
>>> Since we don't have it now the question is moot.
>>
>> We don't have what? the power of God?
>
>The power to do miracles..

Of course we do. Or, to be more specific, we can do plenty of things
which would have been considered miracles in earlier times.
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[steve auvache]

Champ wrote
>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury
><phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>In article <Xns95D7A0E1447Bguinnessisgood@216.196.97.142>, tallbloke wrote:
>>> Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote in
>>> news:slrnctt9et.7ta.phill@tabby.launchbury.org.uk:
>>>
>>>> In article <pan.2005.01.05.19.37.20.354829@deadspam.com>, Verdigris wrote:
>>>
>>>>> That sounds like changing reality to me.
>>>>
>>>> That's what having the power of God can do for you (aka the Holy
>>>> Spirit. As opposed to the unholy spirit - aka whisky :-) )
>>>>
>>>> Since we don't have it now the question is moot.
>>>
>>> We don't have what? the power of God?
>>
>>The power to do miracles..
>
>Of course we do. Or, to be more specific, we can do plenty of things
>which would have been considered miracles in earlier times.

Kin right on, I was up before noon today.


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[Dr Ivan D. Reid]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk>
wrote in <slrncu2scr.vp1.phill@tabby.launchbury.org.uk>:
> In article <Xns95D7A0E1447Bguinnessisgood@216.196.97.142>, tallbloke wrote:

>> We don't have what? the power of God?

> The power to do miracles..

#You remind me of a man...

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[Phil Launchbury]

In article <mh23u0lsu74n9r0tal6gujnosruh006eib@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury
>>> We don't have what? the power of God?
>>
>>The power to do miracles..
>
> Of course we do. Or, to be more specific, we can do plenty of things
> which would have been considered miracles in earlier times.

So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?

Phil

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to juggle mushrooms'

[Champ]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:19:14 +0000, Phil Launchbury
<phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:

>In article <mh23u0lsu74n9r0tal6gujnosruh006eib@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury
>>>> We don't have what? the power of God?
>>>
>>>The power to do miracles..
>>
>> Of course we do. Or, to be more specific, we can do plenty of things
>> which would have been considered miracles in earlier times.
>
>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?

Me? Not many.

However, if you consider people who have been in deep comas, or
catatonic, then it's possible. Rigourous diagnosis of death is a
recent thing.
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[Phil Launchbury]

In article <gl5fu01r9u9t8jn493cfha68sbamc9adj1@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:19:14 +0000, Phil Launchbury
><phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>In article <mh23u0lsu74n9r0tal6gujnosruh006eib@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
>>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury
>>>>> We don't have what? the power of God?
>>>>
>>>>The power to do miracles..
>>>
>>> Of course we do. Or, to be more specific, we can do plenty of things
>>> which would have been considered miracles in earlier times.
>>
>>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
>
> Me? Not many.
>
> However, if you consider people who have been in deep comas, or
> catatonic, then it's possible. Rigourous diagnosis of death is a
> recent thing.

It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..

Phil.

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'I'm training the bats that live in my cube
to juggle mushrooms'

[Champ]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:30:09 +0000, Phil Launchbury
<phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:

>In article <gl5fu01r9u9t8jn493cfha68sbamc9adj1@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:19:14 +0000, Phil Launchbury
>><phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <mh23u0lsu74n9r0tal6gujnosruh006eib@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury
>>>>>> We don't have what? the power of God?
>>>>>
>>>>>The power to do miracles..
>>>>
>>>> Of course we do. Or, to be more specific, we can do plenty of things
>>>> which would have been considered miracles in earlier times.
>>>
>>>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
>>
>> Me? Not many.
>>
>> However, if you consider people who have been in deep comas, or
>> catatonic, then it's possible. Rigourous diagnosis of death is a
>> recent thing.
>
>It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..

Which takes more than 3 days.
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[steve auvache]

Phil Launchbury wrote
>In article <gl5fu01r9u9t8jn493cfha68sbamc9adj1@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:19:14 +0000, Phil Launchbury
>><phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>In article <mh23u0lsu74n9r0tal6gujnosruh006eib@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:02:03 +0000, Phil Launchbury
>>>>>> We don't have what? the power of God?
>>>>>
>>>>>The power to do miracles..
>>>>
>>>> Of course we do. Or, to be more specific, we can do plenty of things
>>>> which would have been considered miracles in earlier times.
>>>
>>>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
>>
>> Me? Not many.
>>
>> However, if you consider people who have been in deep comas, or
>> catatonic, then it's possible. Rigourous diagnosis of death is a
>> recent thing.
>
>It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..

More of a come on imo but each to his own eh.


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[MattG]

Champ says...
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:30:09 +0000, Phil Launchbury
> <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote:
>
> >It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..
>
> Which takes more than 3 days.

Where did you get that idea from?

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[Cab]

Champ bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

> > It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..
>
> Which takes more than 3 days.

Depends upon how hot it is, I thought.

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[Phil Launchbury]

In article <okkfu0dok8vfq0ffg84qcft64e95qfkea4@4ax.com>, Champ wrote:
>>>
>>> However, if you consider people who have been in deep comas, or
>>> catatonic, then it's possible. Rigourous diagnosis of death is a
>>> recent thing.
>>
>>It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..
>
> Which takes more than 3 days.

Not in a hot climate.. the standard rule in ME was (before the advent
of fridges) 'dead at dawn, buried by nightfall'.

Phil

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'I'm training the bats that live in my cube
to juggle mushrooms'

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember MattG <spam@iato.co.uk> saying
something like:

>> >It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..
>>
>> Which takes more than 3 days.
>
>Where did you get that idea from?

Certainly in the Middle East they tend to get the sod under the sod asap
(like next day), for pretty good reasons.

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[MattG]

Grimly Curmudgeon says...
> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember MattG <spam@iato.co.uk> saying
> something like:
>
> >> >It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..
> >>
> >> Which takes more than 3 days.
> >
> >Where did you get that idea from?
>
> Certainly in the Middle East they tend to get the sod under the sod asap
> (like next day), for pretty good reasons.

Indeed so. I rather fancy I have more idea about the decomposition
process and the timing of such than Champ does.

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[Champ]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:58:02 -0000, MattG <spam@iato.co.uk> wrote:

>Grimly Curmudgeon says...
>> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>> drugs began to take hold. I remember MattG <spam@iato.co.uk> saying
>> something like:
>>
>> >> >It's usually a bad sign when they start to decompose..
>> >>
>> >> Which takes more than 3 days.
>> >
>> >Where did you get that idea from?
>>
>> Certainly in the Middle East they tend to get the sod under the sod asap
>> (like next day), for pretty good reasons.
>
>Indeed so. I rather fancy I have more idea about the decomposition
>process and the timing of such than Champ does.

Oh christ yes, loads more. But I wouldn't have picked this argument
with you :-)
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[Veggie Dave]

Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote the following literary
masterpiece:
>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?

Who, exactly, has been resurrected?

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[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Veggie Dave <Veggie~Dave@127.0.0.1>
saying something like:

>Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote the following literary
>masterpiece:
>>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
>
>Who, exactly, has been resurrected?

Inspector Frost; thought I'd seen the last of him.

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[platypus]

Veggie Dave wrote:
> Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote the following literary
> masterpiece:
>> So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
>
> Who, exactly, has been resurrected?

sir.tony

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no need to ask

[steve auvache]

Veggie Dave wrote
>Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote the following literary
>masterpiece:
>>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
>
>Who, exactly, has been resurrected?

<waves>


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[Lozzo]

steve auvache says...
> Veggie Dave wrote
> >Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote the following literary
> >masterpiece:
> >>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
> >
> >Who, exactly, has been resurrected?
>
> <waves>

<waves twice>

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[steve auvache]

Lozzo wrote
> steve auvache says...
>> Veggie Dave wrote
>> >Phil Launchbury <phill@launchbury.org.uk> wrote the following literary
>> >masterpiece:
>> >>So how many people 3 days dead have you resurrected lately?
>> >
>> >Who, exactly, has been resurrected?
>>
>> <waves>
>
><waves twice>

Yeah I have always thought that it was crap when we were told that we
all learn from our mistakes.


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