[Magdalen] New Sect.

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 15:03:30 UTC 2016


Or one with the correct spelling was already taken. And it's still clear what this one means...  I have friends who've had to come up with alternate spellings when the "correct" spelling was already in use.

> On Feb 24, 2016, at 9:54 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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