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"Elroy Willis" |
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09 Feb 2005 11:30:58 AM |
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Battle in Battlecreek |
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal," it's all the same thing to us, she said.
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Full story with pictures at the above link. :)
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Elroy Willis
EAP Chief Editor and Newshound
www.elroysemporium.com/news
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 11:53:52 AM |
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"Elroy Willis" <elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote in message
news:41ik0119cfm0en1cg3v2sngorpto6n4k51@4ax.com...
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal," it's all the same thing to us, she said.
=======
Full story with pictures at the above link. :)
SNERK! Good one ;)
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 02:47:06 PM |
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Elroy Willis wrote:
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal," it's all the same thing to us, she said.
=======
Full story with pictures at the above link. :)
When I saw the two letters, I thought the rationale might be sex education
and venerial disease. "Parents are responsible for teaching their children
about VD and related abominations like homosexuality, bestiality, abortion
and sex outside of marriage," continued Kringleberg. "Not Post. Parents
should have the choice of when and how to bring these subjects up. That
choice is taken away when little children can open up a box of breakfast
cereal and see these sinful acts literally spelled out for them."
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"[T]hose who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves;
and, under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it."
-- Pres. George W. Bush, Hypocrite, his inauguration speech, 2005
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| User: "Elroy Willis" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 03:09:11 PM |
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Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in alt.atheism
Elroy Willis wrote:
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal, it's all the same thing to us," she said.
=======
Full story with pictures at the above link. :)
When I saw the two letters, I thought the rationale might be sex education
and venerial disease. "Parents are responsible for teaching their children
about VD and related abominations like homosexuality, bestiality, abortion
and sex outside of marriage," continued Kringleberg.
"I couldn't decide whether to leave the D in or not, so I prayed
really really hard to Jesus one night at my bedside, and He told me to
go ahead and take it out as well, since His name doesn't contain
either a D or a V like the evil Devil's name does," she said.
"Not Post. Parents should have the choice of when and how to bring
these subjects up. That choice is taken away when little children can
open up a box of breakfast cereal and see these sinful acts literally
spelled out for them."
"My three-year-old saw a bunch of D's and V's mixed in with some
J's, and U's and he said out of the blue one morning "Jesus and the
Devil are having a go at each other in my cereal bowl."
"What should I do?" he asked me.
l0)
--
Elroy Willis
EAP Chief Editor and Newshound
www.elroysemporium.com/news
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 08:08:21 PM |
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:09:11 GMT, Elroy Willis
<elroywillis@swbell.net> said in alt.atheism:
"My three-year-old saw a bunch of D's and V's mixed in with some
J's, and U's and he said out of the blue one morning "Jesus and the
Devil are having a go at each other in my cereal bowl."
"What should I do?" he asked me.
Eat Jesus.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the
one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
-- H. L. Mencken
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at verizon dot net
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| User: "Kate " |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
10 Feb 2005 02:58:31 AM |
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:09:11 GMT, Elroy Willis
<elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote:
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in alt.atheism
Elroy Willis wrote:
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal, it's all the same thing to us," she said.
=======
Full story with pictures at the above link. :)
When I saw the two letters, I thought the rationale might be sex education
and venerial disease. "Parents are responsible for teaching their children
about VD and related abominations like homosexuality, bestiality, abortion
and sex outside of marriage," continued Kringleberg.
"I couldn't decide whether to leave the D in or not, so I prayed
really really hard to Jesus one night at my bedside, and He told me to
go ahead and take it out as well, since His name doesn't contain
either a D or a V like the evil Devil's name does," she said.
"Not Post. Parents should have the choice of when and how to bring
these subjects up. That choice is taken away when little children can
open up a box of breakfast cereal and see these sinful acts literally
spelled out for them."
"My three-year-old saw a bunch of D's and V's mixed in with some
J's, and U's and he said out of the blue one morning "Jesus and the
Devil are having a go at each other in my cereal bowl."
"What should I do?" he asked me.
l0)
You had me on that one. I was just about to send it to my husband
when I noticed the telltale EAP.
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| User: "Virgil" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 03:47:43 PM |
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In article <420A76CA.5E74BDD1@serv.net>,
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote:
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal," it's all the same thing to us, she said.
Since D is now gone, that prevents GOD from sullying those little minds
as well. Perhaps removing J for Jesus and M for Mohammed will follow.
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| User: "sanguinevikings" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 01:36:12 PM |
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Elroy Willis wrote:
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal," it's all the same thing to us, she said.
=======
Full story with pictures at the above link. :)
<Chortle>
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| User: "Frank J Warner" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 08:46:23 PM |
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In article <41ik0119cfm0en1cg3v2sngorpto6n4k51@4ax.com>, Elroy Willis
<elroywillis@swbell.net> wrote:
From:
http://elroysemporium.com/news/alpha-bits.html
"BATTLECREEK MICHIGAN (EAP) -- Due to extreme pressure from several
minority groups of conservative Christians who consider themselves the
"moral majority," the letters D and V have been taken out of current
and all future boxes of Post Alpha-Bits cereal, according to an
anonymous inside source at Kraft Foods."
"We ended up taking out the two letters rather than risk a big loss in
sales, or a possible lawsuit," the spokesperson said.
"We don't want our children to possibly see the word "DEVIL" spelled
out in their cereal bowls, and we felt that we needed to take some
kind of action," says Diane Kringleberg, leader of a group of
conservative Republican Christians who say that their next plan of
action is to put an end to the D and V in Campbell's Alphabet soup.
"Soup or Cereal," it's all the same thing to us, she said.
=======
Full story with pictures at the above link. :)
B-b-but . . . . If you take the D and V out of "Devil," all that
leaves is "Lie."
(Good one, Elroy. :)
-Frank
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Here's some of my work:
http://www.franksknives.com
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Battle in Battlecreek |
09 Feb 2005 11:11:19 PM |
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:46:23 -0800, Frank J Warner
<warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon.net> said in alt.atheism:
B-b-but . . . . If you take the D and V out of "Devil," all that
leaves is "Lie."
Take away the devil and you're left with the heart and soul of
Christianity. :)
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your
Christ."
- Mohandas Gandhi
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rukbat at verizon dot net
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