Oh BTW. I wrote a note to Melanie Phillips and thanked her for a great article. She just sent a very nice response. Maybe a few of you could drop her an email too. Writers like that are so few and far between they need all the encouragement us Neandrathals can send them.
Just a thought ...
Apologies for the 3 posts in a row...shoulda made one but that's how my brain works half the time ... the half of the time it DOES work.
Explanation for the Borg rock is :http://www.crystalinks.com/blackstone.html
Nobody seems to have a clue other than it's OLD and everybody named in the Bible AND the Quran made out with it at some time in their life! (??!!?)It isn't worshipped. It's simply that all those dudes like Abraham did handle it and oh ya kissed it a lot for some reason. Probable explanation for that was it was the only thing in their lives withOUT camel breath!
OK. Sorry. That was NOT PC and highly irreverent. A thousand apologies (grovel & scrape)
DAVE632 calls The Socialist Republic of Canuckistan home for the moment. I'm just outside the center of the known Galaxy - Toronto. I lost a wife (of 21 yrs) to a cerebral aneurysm 3 years ago and have just married a girl (lady) from Arizona so as soon as the US INS classifies me as a minimum security risk I'll be taking my company and heading down into the heart of the FREEREPUBLIC. "Yeehaaaw" and all that.