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In article <mcclaryCvsKLn.ny@netcom.com>,
mcclary@netcom.com (Michael McClary) wrote:

> Digression:  Onan is a very unfortunate brand name - every time I hear it
> I wonder if they have a tendency to spill oil on the ground or have ground
> fault problems.  B-)

Maybe its just a phaggot thing, but I too like the name Onan
and the product. We have a 4K Onan in our motorhome and, every couple
of months I go out and crank it. In only a few cranks, its up and
running. I wish the other devices on the rig were as reliable.

Onan Corporation is so named because its founder was David W. Onan. But 
since we're digressing I'd like to take a moment to defend the biblical
Onan.

His story has been used by more than a few schoolmarms to threaten 
playful pubescent boys with death when threats of unsightly palm hair 
or visual impairment ceased to scare. 

But Onan wasn't struck dead by God because of what he did with his
seed, it's what he didn't do. He should have gone over and
impregnated his late brother's wife.

Onan wasn't nearly as horny as he was greedy. If his older brother's
widow never had kids, he'd get the money, because under old testament
law the sons of the first born have first rights--even over their
uncles.

How many brothers-in-law show up today at their widow sister-in-laws
house under the biblical authority that they must produce offspring
lest they be struck dead by God? Not many, I suppose. Yet while the
social aspects of the story are clearly antiquated, no one ever seems
to extend that to the sexual ones.

But I suppose were stuck with Onan as a euphemism. Every time I see
the name Onan it evokes fond pleasurable memories.

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Jerry Trowbridge                         JerryT@touchmap.com

   I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility 
   against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
                    ---Thomas Jefferson, The Jefferson Bible