[Magdalen] New Sect.

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 14:54:13 UTC 2016


My son's dog tags read "EPISCOPALION". Tennessee National Guard is
uneducated, I guess......and mainly Baptist. Sigh.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:32 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a take-off on Rastafarian.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I think that's what members of the sect of the FSM call themselves. I
> > mean, what else could they call themselves--Flying Spaghettians?
> > Nah...
> >
> > > On Feb 21, 2016, at 9:41 PM, Arthur Laurent <ALaurent at npr.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > There are also, apparently, Pastaterians (perhaps an offshoot belief
> > system).
> > >
> > > I was getting a spare set of dog tags stamped, and the clerk came out
> to
> > inform a  fellow that he couldn't have PASTATERIAN as his dog tag
> religious
> > preference. (I've also heard of JEDI as a religious preference, but that
> > would be a bit after my time.) I had a hard enough time getting clerks to
> > spell Episcopalian correctly. I don't think there is a good abbreviation
> > for Episcopalian.
> > >
> > > Arthur
> > >
> > > <...It is intriguing how things get started and turn into very serious
> > matters.
> >
>


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