dadiOH wrote:

Does anybody have anything that I could use to persuade him?

Just telling him he is an idiot is unlikely to help so...

1. Pull a Lysistrata
- OR -
2. New husband.

I've had an inkling, for some time, that the average intelligence of this
group exceeds by more than a small amount that often found in other
congregations.

Imagine reference to a play by Aristophanes as a solution to a home repair
question !

I continue to be impressed.

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Aside: A conservative author has a new (fiction) book out and promotes it
with the following poem:

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man-
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began:-
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will bum,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings* with terror and slaughter return!

There's even a spooky video trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBoeHgy7svg

Now what's amazing is that many of the author's foes used the above poem to
illustrate the pathologically depraved mindset of the book's author!
Obviously anyone who could conjure up something so despicable must be
deranged!

The author of the poem was Rudyard Kipling.

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* Copybook Headings - Long ago, in English schools, when penmanship was
taught, "copybooks" were distributed to the students. Each page had a pithy
saying at the top, written in an elegant hand, and the students were obliged
to copy the maxim, over and over, down the otherwise blank page.