Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:55:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet Message-ID: <200011081855.LAA22115@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpwveeqpx8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" at Nov 08, 2000 07:28:19 PM
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> > I'm tempted to theorise that the phrase did not originate with the > > book you quoted, but rather that its author used an expression his > > readers were already familiar with. > > And I was right! Sorry, Terry, but you were once again caught with > your foot deeply ensconced within your mouth. > > "Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in strange and > mysterious ways." -- Isaiah 45:15 > > "God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind, > and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's > womb." -- Ecclesiastes 11:5 You are a moron. 1) The text is not the same. 2) Neither one of them makes the joke work. 3) In neither case are wonders being performed. Plonk! Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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