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To: yorkie
Sorry yorkie, I really didn't meant to offend. It was an oblique reference to Saint Thomas Aquinas, who was called The Dumb Ox.

“His fellow students, misunderstanding Thomas’s humility and reticence, gave him the nickname “the Dumb Ox.” After hearing one of Thomas’s theological arguments, St. Albert declared, “We call this young man a dumb ox, but his bellowing in doctrine will one day resound throughout the world.””

I seem to be unintentionally offending a lot of people lately.

*sigh*

2,401 posted on 03/06/2008 7:12:03 PM PST by null and void (I slept better when I thought our betters actually were better...)
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To: null and void

Nully, you couldn’t offend me. I do a good enough job of that on my own.

I just seem to be doing the same thing - offending others - and that is the last thing I would ever intentionally do.

I think I hear the “Ice cream truck”. (IOW, I need to go greet it - and get some sugar.)


2,402 posted on 03/06/2008 7:17:36 PM PST by yorkie (No surgeon can perfect God's work)
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