Paulie Valentine… Wasn’t he part of Tony Soprano’s crew down at the Badda-Bing? Making sure the girls were nice to the customers? The guy was bad news…
Known aliases include Paulie Sweetheart, Paulie Exxo, and “Fat Rudy”.
Angels don’t really have wings, and I read Ecclesiastes in the original Mandarin when I was in Divinity school. Now I’m going to tell FishStix the TRUE story of St. Paul’s conversion (St. Paul didn’t have wings either)…
Why the silly comment, Ushindi? Mandarin refers to one of the spoken forms (they’re called dialects) of the Chinese language but the written language is the same everywhere in that pagan country. Ecclesiastes was simply written in Chinese.
Cupid has wings, but he’s a pagan deity. Innocent children should be sheltered from exposure to the pagan heathen Valentine’s Day, because it isn’t mentioned in the Bible. The only legitimate way to observe St. Valentine’s Day is to go to a Catholic Mass. If you’re not a Catholic you should ignore it and educate your children that it’s a Catholic holiday with pagan influences.
Some cartoonists forget that comics are read by impressionable children and they put pagan figures into their strips that should only be seen by people over 21 who have a note from a doctor.
I don’t know who you’re referring to FishStix but it certainly isn’t Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty (of the Mayflower Dotys). He has a Masters Degree in Education but he was never a tenured instructor at a college or university which is what the word “professor” means.
Unless you used it in the sense of a person who professes his knowledge, in which case it is fitting because Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty (whose ancestor of that name came over on the Mayflower) has a lot of knowledge of important and interesting things such as how to spell words correctly and where commas should be placed in sentences, and he professes it often.
This is knowledge that he had even before he went to community college, meaning that he didn’t have to take the introductory classes in spelling and comma placement that were required for other incoming students. “He doesn’t have to take this class” is what they said to each other, in hushed tones. Then they threw a parade for him.
Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty (and the name “Doty” was often on the lips of the captain of the Mayflower, you can be sure) also isn’t a priest. Priests are Catholic clergymen and there’s no justification in the New Testament for any follower of Jesus to call himself a priest.
If you aren’t a Catholic (or a pagan) the only justification for calling yourself a priest is if you are a person of Jewish descent who is of the Tribe of Levi. Levi was one of Joseph’s brothers in the Book of Genesis and the LORD decreed that his descendants would provide the priests for all the Tribes. The Old Testament Book of Leviticus is where Moses sets down the Laws of the observance of the LORD’s commandments for the Levites.
Many modern Levites can still be identified by their surnames, such as Levy, Levine and Levitz.
I surrender, fritzoid, I won’t even TRY to compete with that. If there were a Doty contest, similar to the Bulwer-Lytton contest, I know you would win first place. I really honestly did LOL.
Ushindi, I’d been trying to ease up on him a bit. There’ve been a couple of posts in recent days where it actually appeared like he was trying to be funny, and he half-way succeeded.
Then along came today’s Agnes, and I held on through FishStix’s comment, but then you posted and all my good intentions were shot to Hell. So I blame you.
With any luck, Joe will have read the comic and been so offended that he won’t even have bothered checking the comments…
Well, the useless holidays strewn throughout our calendar aren’t really that useless in one respect. They make up in large part for the fact that Americans, on the whole, get fewer days of paid vacation than pretty much any other developed nation. Even WITH President’s Day and Columbus Day and MLK Day and so on, I think we average more days per year spent on the job than just about anyone else.
(I don’t have data to back that up, but if anyone wants to look into it I’d be interested in knowing the result. FishStix, if you’re tired of agreeing with me here’s a chance to resume our comfortable opposition.)
lewisbower almost 15 years ago
St Valentine, the patron saint of florists, jewelers, and chocolate manufacturers. Hia sister, St Hallmark enjoys this time of year also.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Paulie Valentine… Wasn’t he part of Tony Soprano’s crew down at the Badda-Bing? Making sure the girls were nice to the customers? The guy was bad news…
Known aliases include Paulie Sweetheart, Paulie Exxo, and “Fat Rudy”.
Ushindi almost 15 years ago
Angels don’t really have wings, and I read Ecclesiastes in the original Mandarin when I was in Divinity school. Now I’m going to tell FishStix the TRUE story of St. Paul’s conversion (St. Paul didn’t have wings either)…
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Why the silly comment, Ushindi? Mandarin refers to one of the spoken forms (they’re called dialects) of the Chinese language but the written language is the same everywhere in that pagan country. Ecclesiastes was simply written in Chinese.
Cupid has wings, but he’s a pagan deity. Innocent children should be sheltered from exposure to the pagan heathen Valentine’s Day, because it isn’t mentioned in the Bible. The only legitimate way to observe St. Valentine’s Day is to go to a Catholic Mass. If you’re not a Catholic you should ignore it and educate your children that it’s a Catholic holiday with pagan influences.
Some cartoonists forget that comics are read by impressionable children and they put pagan figures into their strips that should only be seen by people over 21 who have a note from a doctor.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I don’t know who you’re referring to FishStix but it certainly isn’t Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty (of the Mayflower Dotys). He has a Masters Degree in Education but he was never a tenured instructor at a college or university which is what the word “professor” means.
Unless you used it in the sense of a person who professes his knowledge, in which case it is fitting because Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty (whose ancestor of that name came over on the Mayflower) has a lot of knowledge of important and interesting things such as how to spell words correctly and where commas should be placed in sentences, and he professes it often.
This is knowledge that he had even before he went to community college, meaning that he didn’t have to take the introductory classes in spelling and comma placement that were required for other incoming students. “He doesn’t have to take this class” is what they said to each other, in hushed tones. Then they threw a parade for him.
Joe-Allen “Joe” Doty (and the name “Doty” was often on the lips of the captain of the Mayflower, you can be sure) also isn’t a priest. Priests are Catholic clergymen and there’s no justification in the New Testament for any follower of Jesus to call himself a priest.
If you aren’t a Catholic (or a pagan) the only justification for calling yourself a priest is if you are a person of Jewish descent who is of the Tribe of Levi. Levi was one of Joseph’s brothers in the Book of Genesis and the LORD decreed that his descendants would provide the priests for all the Tribes. The Old Testament Book of Leviticus is where Moses sets down the Laws of the observance of the LORD’s commandments for the Levites.
Many modern Levites can still be identified by their surnames, such as Levy, Levine and Levitz.
Not Doty, though.
Ushindi almost 15 years ago
I surrender, fritzoid, I won’t even TRY to compete with that. If there were a Doty contest, similar to the Bulwer-Lytton contest, I know you would win first place. I really honestly did LOL.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Ushindi, I’d been trying to ease up on him a bit. There’ve been a couple of posts in recent days where it actually appeared like he was trying to be funny, and he half-way succeeded.
Then along came today’s Agnes, and I held on through FishStix’s comment, but then you posted and all my good intentions were shot to Hell. So I blame you.
With any luck, Joe will have read the comic and been so offended that he won’t even have bothered checking the comments…
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Well, the useless holidays strewn throughout our calendar aren’t really that useless in one respect. They make up in large part for the fact that Americans, on the whole, get fewer days of paid vacation than pretty much any other developed nation. Even WITH President’s Day and Columbus Day and MLK Day and so on, I think we average more days per year spent on the job than just about anyone else.
(I don’t have data to back that up, but if anyone wants to look into it I’d be interested in knowing the result. FishStix, if you’re tired of agreeing with me here’s a chance to resume our comfortable opposition.)