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  1. All sorts of things began at that point, I expect, including politics and any kind of social organisation. Religions have appealed to people's need for faith and identity. Where they've gone wrong, I'd suggest, is in their treatment of unbelievers and critics. They show themselves to be very human institutions then. Perhaps religion is like fire - a good servant, but a bad master. When religion gets taken up by the political authorities it becomes the latter. It doesn't help if it's locked into a sacred text that can't be interrogated. I can't see religion disappearing though; people still want to share their beliefs and hopes.

    As long as there are brain washers and stupid people, religion will exist. :o

  2. CANONICAL LIST OF FULLDECKISMS (As in, "He's not playing with a full deck.")

    "Body by Fisher -- brains by Mattel."

    A .22 caliber intellect in a .357 Magnum world.

    A great deal of pride, but very little to be proud of.

    A legend in his own mind.

    A modest little person, with much to be modest about. -- Churchill

    A natural talent for finding subliminal messages in ice cubes.

    A notch off the timing mark.

    A photographic memory, but no film

    A room temperature IQ -- centigrade.

    A titanic intellect... In a world full of icebergs.

    A walking argument for post-natal abortion.

    All foam, no beer.

    All Preparation, no H.

    As smart as a politician/lawyer is honest.

    Attic's a little dusty.

    Back burners not fully operating.

    Baler done run out of twine.

    Can't count his balls and get the same answer twice.

    Chimney's clogged.

    Confused as a baby in a topless bar.

    Conserves toilet paper by using both sides.

    Couldn't find his way through a maze even if the rats helped him.

    Couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

    Couldn't tell which way the elevator was going if he had two guesses.

    Dealing with him is less fun than going to the dentist.

    Depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.

    Doesn't have a fart's prayer in a hurricane.

    Doesn't have all his cornflakes in one box.

    Doesn't have both oars in the water -- can't even find the ###### boat.

    Doesn't just know nothing; doesn't even suspect much.

    Dumb as a sack of hammers.

    Fell out of the family tree.

    Fifty-one cards short of a full deck.

    Fired from McDonald's for having a short attention span.

    Forgot to pay his brain bill.

    Gears grind/don't always mesh.

    Gets lost in thought -- it's unfamiliar territory.

    Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't watching.

    Has a divide-by-zero look on his face.

    Has a full six-pack but lacks the plastic thing to hold them together.

    Has an inferiority complex, but not a very good one.

    Has been seen tossing bread crumbs to helicopters.

    Hasn't got all his china in the cupboard.

    He donated his brain to science but they made an early withdrawal.

    He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.

    He's a man on a mission, but can't find his dossier.

    He's really into himself... His head is up his ass.

    Her blender doesn't go past "mix".

    Her dentist went deaf from the drill's echoes.

    Her gene pool could use a good filter.

    Her leads need resoldering.

    Her lint trap is full.

  3. Some Real Epitaghs --------------

    Here lies Jan Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble Cutter. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of his work. Monuments of this same style are two hundred and fifty dollars. *********

    On the grave of Ezekial Aikle in East Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: Here lies Ezekial Aikle Age 102 The Good Die Young. *********

    In a London, England cemetery: Ann Mann Here lies Ann Mann, Who lived an old maid But died an old Mann. Dec. 8, 1767 **********

    In a Ribbesford, England, cemetery: Anna Wallace The children of Israel wanted bread And the Lord sent them manna, Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife, And the Devil sent him Anna. **********

    Playing with names in a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Here lies Johnny Yeast Pardon me For not rising. ***********

    Memory of an accident in a Uniontown, Pennsylvania cemetery: Here lies the body of Jonathan Blake Stepped on the gas Instead of the brake. ***********

    In a Silver City, Nevada, cemetery: Here lays Butch, We planted him raw. He was quick on the trigger, But slow on the draw. ***********

    A widow wrote this epitaph in a Vermont cemetery: Sacred to the memory of my husband John Barnes who died January 3, 1803. His comely young widow, aged 23, has many qualifications of a good wife, and yearns to be comforted. ************

    A lawyer's epitaph in England: Sir John Strange Here lies an honest lawyer, And that is Strange. ************

    Someone determined to be anonymous in Stowe, Vermont: I was somebody. Who, is no business of yours. *************

    Lester Moore was a Wells, Fargo Co. station agent for Naco, Arizona in the cowboy days of the 1880's. He's buried in the Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: Here lies Lester Moore Four slugs from a .44 No Les No More. ***********

    John Penny's epitaph in the Wimborne, England, cemetery: Reader if cash thou art In want of any Dig 4 feet deep And thou wilt find a Penny. ************

    On Margaret Daniels grave at Hollywood Cemetery Richmond, Virginia: She always said her feet were killing her but nobody believed her. ************

    In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England: On the 22nd of June - Jonathan Fiddle - Went out of tune. ************

    Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg Falls, Vermont has an epitaph that sounds like something from a Three Stooges movie: Here lies the body of our Anna Done to death by a banana It wasn't the fruit that laid her low But the skin of the thing that made her go. ***********

    More fun with names with Owen Moore in Battersea, London, England: Gone away Owin' more Than he could pay. ***********

    Someone in Winslow, Maine didn't like Mr. Wood: In Memory of Beza Wood Departed this life Nov. 2, 1837 Aged 45 yrs. Here lies one Wood Enclosed in wood One Wood Within another. The outer wood Is very good: We cannot praise The other. ***********

    On a grave from the 1880's in Nantucket, Massachusetts: Under the sod and under the trees Lies the body of Jonathan Pease. He is not here, there's only the pod: Pease shelled out and went to God. ***********

    The grave of Ellen Shannon in Girard, Pennsylvania is almost a consumer tip: Who was fatally burned March 21, 1870 by the explosion of a lamp filled with "R.E. Danforth's Non-Explosive Burning Fluid" ***********

    Oops! Harry Edsel Smith of Albany, New York: Born 1903--Died 1942 Looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on the way down. It was. ***********

    In a Thurmont, Maryland, cemetery: Here lies an Atheist All dressed up And no place to go.

  4. Yes, the selection is bigger, but if this is an advantage is up to everybody to decide for him/her self.

    I personally prefer the quality of the Wiang Inn.

    For me personally (I am Dutch!) the Rimkok is desastrous.

    Limbo :D

    Been told by a couple of friends that the Rimkok is better and dif-my lew. :o

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