🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3446E9CC.C7388BEF@seas.gwu.edu.NOSPAM>, Alan Davis
<adavis@seas.gwu.edu.NOSPAM> wrote:
> 
> Carol Ann Hemingway wrote:
>
> >             I can't find my bible;  it's either boxed up in
> >             my garage, or given away with my other illusions
> >             of childhood.
> 
> And the dog ate my homework.

Nice one, Cyril!  :)

I found this funny.  Partly, I guess, because we don't even have a
garage.  There is a room that was supposed to be a garage, but it's
really a cross between a large playroom and a place where three dogs
and three of our cats jump all over one another constantly.  Partly
also because the idea of having only *one* Bible struck me just as
funny.  Right in front of me on the bookshelves as I type this I can
see *two* King James versions, one Catholic Bible, a New Testament
("Good News for Modern Man"), and a vest-pocket-size New Testament
and Pslams.  Plus a Cruden's Concordance, the Dead Sea Scriptures,
Elaine Pagels's *The Gnostic Gospels*, and a *Lost Books of the
Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden.*  Oh, and a Koran, a Book of
Mormon...  and *De Gospel According to Mark, Done Into De Sussex
Dialect*.  Plus two more Bibles elsewhere that belonged to my mother,
a big family Bible, another pocket-size New Testament, a New Testament
handed out free at *Stand in the Gap* two weeks ago...  Gee, if all
three of our dogs ate a whole Bible apiece, I'll bet we'd still have
a dozen left.  Having only one Bible seems as amusing to me as having
only one Guinness Book of Records or World Almanac (the 1973 edition!).

         Gordon S. Little
     (Gordon.Little@bull.com)