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"AZ Nomad" |
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29 Jan 2008 12:45:11 PM |
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pious sandpaper head |
Too funny: seen in last week's News of the Weird:
Egypt's competitive spirit, combined with a recent surge in piety as some in
the Middle East strengthen their commitment to Islam, have led many men to
suddenly sport dark calluses on their foreheads ("raisins") as a signal of
perhaps-overenthusiastic daily praying. The five prayers require, in all, 34
contacts with the ground (of forehead and nose), and additional personal
prayers add to the total, according to a December New York Times dispatch
from Cairo. Rumors persist that some men use sandpaper to darken the
calluses to appear even more pious. [New York Times, 12-18-07]
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| User: "Steve Knight" |
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| Title: Re: pious sandpaper head |
29 Jan 2008 08:33:21 PM |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:45:11 -0000, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
Too funny: seen in last week's News of the Weird:
Egypt's competitive spirit, combined with a recent surge in piety as some in
the Middle East strengthen their commitment to Islam, have led many men to
suddenly sport dark calluses on their foreheads ("raisins") as a signal of
perhaps-overenthusiastic daily praying. The five prayers require, in all, 34
contacts with the ground (of forehead and nose), and additional personal
prayers add to the total, according to a December New York Times dispatch
from Cairo. Rumors persist that some men use sandpaper to darken the
calluses to appear even more pious. [New York Times, 12-18-07]
Damn. Whatever happen to them beating themselves with sharp sticks
and switches?
I sure miss that part about superstition.
Warlord Steve
BAAWA
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: pious sandpaper head |
29 Jan 2008 10:02:59 PM |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:33:21 -0800, Steve Knight <wooly51@comcast.net>
wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:45:11 -0000, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
Too funny: seen in last week's News of the Weird:
Egypt's competitive spirit, combined with a recent surge in piety as some in
the Middle East strengthen their commitment to Islam, have led many men to
suddenly sport dark calluses on their foreheads ("raisins") as a signal of
perhaps-overenthusiastic daily praying. The five prayers require, in all, 34
contacts with the ground (of forehead and nose), and additional personal
prayers add to the total, according to a December New York Times dispatch
from Cairo. Rumors persist that some men use sandpaper to darken the
calluses to appear even more pious. [New York Times, 12-18-07]
Damn. Whatever happen to them beating themselves with sharp sticks
and switches?
I sure miss that part about superstition.
"Pie Iesu Domine
Dona eis requiem"
<thump>
---
"Faith may not move mountains, but you should see what it does to skyscrapers..."
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| User: "Don Martin" |
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| Title: Re: pious sandpaper head |
30 Jan 2008 07:19:43 PM |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:33:21 -0800, Steve Knight <wooly51@comcast.net> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:45:11 -0000, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
Too funny: seen in last week's News of the Weird:
Egypt's competitive spirit, combined with a recent surge in piety as some in
the Middle East strengthen their commitment to Islam, have led many men to
suddenly sport dark calluses on their foreheads ("raisins") as a signal of
perhaps-overenthusiastic daily praying. The five prayers require, in all, 34
contacts with the ground (of forehead and nose), and additional personal
prayers add to the total, according to a December New York Times dispatch
from Cairo. Rumors persist that some men use sandpaper to darken the
calluses to appear even more pious. [New York Times, 12-18-07]
Damn. Whatever happen to them beating themselves with sharp sticks
and switches?
I sure miss that part about superstition.
For those of us who enjoy 18th century Brits, there is one, Sir Francis
Dashwood. an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
(1762–1763) and founder of The Hellfire Club who is at very least amusing. On
his Grand Tour (probably in the 1730s), he went to the service of a flagellant
order in Rome. Every evening, an audience would gather, and when they were
comfortably seated, the monks would enter the circular arena in the center of
the room, and parade around it, beating themselves with whips and emitting
piteous groans.
Francis (the Sir came later) noted that the whips looked pretty soft and that
the strokes looked softer still. On a following night, he came back with some
confederates who stationed themselves at the candle sconces. When the monks
began their circular parade, Francis gave the nod and entered the arena as the
lights were all doused. He took a horsewhip from his cloak, and proceeded to
process across the arena to the aisle opposite, laying about him with the whip,
right and left, as he went. The piteous groans were noted by all and sundry
present, as having a good deal more pain and agony in them.
Nothing like a bit of real pain to give an edge to a superstition.
aa #2278 If you can't be a dirty old man, what is the point of being an old man?
Fidei defensor (Hon. Antipodean)
The Squeeky Wheel: http://home.comcast.net/~drdonmartin/
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: pious sandpaper head |
29 Jan 2008 10:48:49 PM |
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Steve Knight <wooly51@comcast.net> wrote in
news:4bovp3p0g6kme3guj7dnskh98g9vda80rj@4ax.com:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:45:11 -0000, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
Too funny: seen in last week's News of the Weird:
Egypt's competitive spirit, combined with a recent surge in piety as
some in the Middle East strengthen their commitment to Islam, have led
many men to suddenly sport dark calluses on their foreheads
("raisins") as a signal of perhaps-overenthusiastic daily praying. The
five prayers require, in all, 34 contacts with the ground (of forehead
and nose), and additional personal prayers add to the total, according
to a December New York Times dispatch from Cairo. Rumors persist that
some men use sandpaper to darken the calluses to appear even more
pious. [New York Times, 12-18-07]
Damn. Whatever happen to them beating themselves with sharp sticks
and switches?
I sure miss that part about superstition.
Warlord Steve
BAAWA
Strangling yourself to death while wrapped up in rubber undies and two
wet suits with a ***** up your ***** close enough?
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
Against our traditions we are now entering upon an unjust and trivial
war, a war against a helpless people, and for a base object - robbery.
-Mark Twain
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: pious sandpaper head |
29 Jan 2008 11:01:00 PM |
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:45:11 -0000, AZ Nomad
<aznomad.2@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
Too funny: seen in last week's News of the Weird:
Egypt's competitive spirit, combined with a recent surge in piety as some in
the Middle East strengthen their commitment to Islam, have led many men to
suddenly sport dark calluses on their foreheads ("raisins") as a signal of
perhaps-overenthusiastic daily praying. The five prayers require, in all, 34
contacts with the ground (of forehead and nose), and additional personal
prayers add to the total, according to a December New York Times dispatch
from Cairo. Rumors persist that some men use sandpaper to darken the
calluses to appear even more pious. [New York Times, 12-18-07]
Muslims get 17 Raisins in paradise.
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