On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:47:29 -0800, Rich Grise
wrote:

Jon Elson wrote:

Yes, I was also surprised to find anyone thought they were a legitimate
business. Umm, doesn't the NAME alone, tell you something? Isn't there
this story called "ali baba and the 40 thieves"?

As I was going to St. Ives, I meet a man with seven wives. Each wife had
seven sacks; each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits; how many
were going to St. Ives?

Nun.

Oops, no, that was the punchline to the joke "What meat does a
vegetarian priest eat?"

--
"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty.
There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and
indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration
of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark. If
the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling
the differences between true and false, right and wrong,
virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of
mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"
--John Adams