[Magdalen] New Sect.

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 22:39:59 UTC 2016


That's a neat tip of the hat to Aslan. [whichever aslan you prefer is up to
you]

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 Wed, 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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