I just wish there was something to fix our political embarassments as effectively as that speeding taxi fixed our worst literary one.
I thought it was actually Anti Christ/ Devil’s Child. I actually heard that on the Discovery Channel. There was a show on the unabomber, and it said that he wore a hat with the words AC/DC, and they stood for what I said above. They didn’t mention that it was a band name.
So when I started high school and saw people wearing AC/DC hats, I was freaked out because I thought they were imitating the unabomber or satanists or something.
So, what does the little lightning bolt in the middle stand for, Harry Potter?
Now everything makes so much more sense…
James Dickey was killed by a speeding taxi?
Thats Knights! gad…
We Are Sexual Perverts.
Boy, theres no good initials anymore.
Don’t most libraries carry books of spells? Has anyone told her that?
I saw a book of spells in my local W H Smith only yesterday, ISYN. It was written by a “druidess and water witch”. Randomly flicking through it, I found a spell that was something to do with a safe journey, and the incantation for it, according to the authoress, was a native American version of the Lord’s Prayer. (Translated into English, of course. We can go only so far.)
My English is good, and it didn’t take me long to figure out this was actually a noble-savage version of Psalm 23; fairly hard to confuse with the Lord’s Prayer if you knew dick about either. I have my doubts about the expertise of the writer. :rolleyes:
Great. Now she’ll want to ban the dictionaries.
Don’t you know that all religions are just different paths to the One True God? It’s merely the ignorance and pigheadedness of others that keeps them from admitting it and worshipping the Big Guy the way He really likes it.
The libraries, more like. Once we’ve burned all the books, we have no need for the buildings that used to contain them, so we might as well burn those too. Nobody needs more than their Bible, anyway.
Naw, “pawns” works better, because then you can sing it to the tune of “We are Family.”
“Wearing those demonic long johns!”
The books either contain what is already in the Bible, in which case they are superfluous, or they contradict what is in the Bible, in which case they are blasphemous.
Got some others? That would be cool. I was quite proud when I read that the official Reformed Jewish Bible commentary got revised in this way. Anyhow, it is not like this data is very old. When I went to Hebrew School there was no reason to doubt the Bible story of the Empire, as far as I know. To tell you the truth, I don’t know what Unitarians believe, but I didn’t want to make this Jewish-centric.
But a tested one. When I don’t look it up, I’m often wrong. Anyhow, if it is good enough for the New Yorker, it is good enough for me. 
I’m not much of a Biblical scholar, but wouldn’t the Bible also include this stuff?
What, like:
- We! Are! Satan’s! Pawns!
We all love the guy with the horns* ?
I could have sworn I read a follow up to this nutjob’s case and how the Head Librarian wrote a letter that was very nicely done stating they were allowing Potter back on the shelf. Thought I saw it about a week ago.
People like her get their 15 minutes of fame so as to teach the rest of us how to think for ourselves.
I feel for her kids.
Isn’t this the background to A Canticle For Leibowitz?
And now I think about it, wasn’t there a Library in Alexandria until the local fanatics showed up with pitchforks and burning torches sometime in the late fourth century AD?
I seem to recall a nuclear war (“the Flame Deluge”) set the stage for A Canticle for Leibowitz.
As far as the Library of Alexandria, accounts differ.
I was referring to “The Simplification” in A Canticle For Leibowitz- after the Nuclear War, the Survivors turn on the learned, and kill them (martyring Leibowitz in the process), and then destroy every book and library they can get their hands on- which turns out to be most of them, certainly in the Southwestern USA.