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Entry: Two New Myth-Busting Books Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/two_new_myth_busting_books#5032 Post contents: @ Sid, "Mr. Ball merits consideration for the title of Venerable from the appropriate Sacred Congregation..." Thanks, but the only Sacred Congregation who would ever venerate me would be the one Taki belongs to: Boozers who adore beautiful women and who are willing to fight hard and equally willing to make peace with our honourable adversaries. :-) I'm a marginal heretic and I smoke and drink and admire beautiful women too much to be venerated by my Roman Catholic Church, but a big part of me hopes that the likes of Taki and I will be neighbours in the most delightful part of upper-purgatory, where we'll occasionally invite some Saints AND some denizens of LOWER purgatory such as Nixon and Stalin and FDR. @ Adriana, Very funny. Please reassure your cat Bombon that my (late) cat, named John Paul (yes, like Pope John Paul, another great lover of Humans just like my cat), didn't end up on my table, but often ate from it. I adopted him as a stray, knowing that his former "owners" ran a pizza shop, and so my cat was addicted to pasta sauce. He went mad whenever I cooked pasta or pizza sauce; the scent of it was like cocaine for him. But some of my former neighbours in China had a very different attitude to cats. Thus, the spoof song (spoof of "Cat's in the Cradle"): "There's a cat in the kettle at the Beijing Moon, The place where I eat every day at noon, They say it's chicken or beef or pork, But there's a fur-ball on my fork..." My new pet, here in Australia, is a Cockapoo puppy named Sam. I named him after the Hobbit gardener Sam Gamgee, because he likes digging in the garden. As he's half-poodle, he's half-German, and I see just a trace of German neurotic self-obsession in him, but as he's half Cocker-Spaniel, he's half English, so his sense of humour prevents him from being intolerable to me and my English love of silliness. :-) (Gloss: the word "silly" comes from the Old English word, "selig", which originally meant, "healthy" in the tongue of the ancient Anglo-Saxons. Hmmm... :-) I often think, very seriously, that the main reason why the English resisted Hitler was because Hitler just had no sense of humour.............) Sent at: 2008 05 16