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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: fortune candidate from #FreeBSD on EFNet
To: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:55:36 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert),
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	bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), chat@FreeBSD.ORG,
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> > I'm tempted to theorise that the phrase did not originate with the
> > book you quoted, but rather that its author used an expression his
> > readers were already familiar with.
> 
> And I was right! Sorry, Terry, but you were once again caught with
> your foot deeply ensconced within your mouth.
> 
>     "Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in strange and
>      mysterious ways."  -- Isaiah 45:15
> 
>     "God's ways are as hard to discern as the pathways of the wind,
>      and as mysterious as a tiny baby being formed in a mother's
>      womb." -- Ecclesiastes 11:5

You are a moron.

1)	The text is not the same.
2)	Neither one of them makes the joke work.
3)	In neither case are wonders being performed.

Plonk!


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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