In article <as3eivoddjpauletptpiumggg90kssjo45@4ax.com> Jd <jday123@bellsouth.net> writes:
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<Cary Kittrell wrote:
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<>In article <3f258050_1@news.iglou.com> (Keenan Clay Wilkie) writes:
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<><He's just all ***** because his fairy tale about the "earth standing
<><still" has been exposed as a lie by those "nasty, mean atheists" (even
<><though most Christians conceded that it's a hoax).
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<>Oh, JDay doesn't LIKE being exposed like that. If you're reading this
<>on `alt.education', you may be aware of his longest-running bit
<>of silliness -- an obviously bogus quotation from the Random House
<>Encyclopedia, one which purportedly had said of Charles Darwin:
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<> "After taking part in the witchcraft ceremonies, not only was his
<> mind affected but his body also. He developed a chronic and
<> incapacitating illness, and went to his death under a depression he
<> could not shake" (Random House Encyclopedia, 1977, p. 768).
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<>Long and loud, as you may imagine, was the mockery greeting this
<>bit of patent silliness. More seriously, another poster tracked
<>down the relevant web sites and demonstrated how some quotation
<>marks had wandered to create the above bogosity. To no avail:
<>JD dug in, set his jaw, and would not be dissauded. Finally,
<>I obtained the requisite edition of the Encyclopedia, read
<>the relevant page, and informed him that to no one's surprise, he had
<>been engaged in perpetuating a lie. His response (savor the irony):
<>"I figure you're lying about that".
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<>So I put the page under debate up on my web page and invited
<>JDay to inspect it for himself.
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<>He promptly shut his jaw with a near-audible snap, and we
<>haven't heard about Darwin and witchcraft since.
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<>Sometimes a little work is what it takes.
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<>-- cary
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<You should have said "little work won't cut it when Jd's around".
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<I looked and lo and behold, the citation was still there on the
<web page I lfted it from. So I figure you guys basically just
<whine about things and that's as far as it goes.
For those of you who have just tuned in, the original Random
House page, showing remarkably few signs of witchcraft damage,
may be viewed at:
http://afone.as.arizona.edu/~cary/RHencycl.768.jpg
-- cary
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