[Fictionary] ASTEISM results!

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

It's not a very good silly joke definition if the joke is too obscure 
for anyone to get it, in this case, that the Lord created the world in 
'aste.

Jean-Joseph

On 5/25/2020 9:38 AM, Ziv Stern wrote:
>
> asteism, n. a belief popular in the vicinity of Bow Church (London) 
> that the world was created in five days.
>
> Jean-Joseph: 1 + 1 = 2
>
> One point. Because why should God get a shorter weekend than I do? 
> (I'm sure the Bow Church part is a clever joke which I don't get.) 
> (I'll give this my definition-most-likely-to-be-by-Elliott award, as 
> well.)
>
> Five days, huh?  Shaved one off the previous record of six? I like the 
> idea of a religious belief that's *that* local, why there?  Is ``five 
> days'' Cockney rhyming slang for something like ``a Great Blaze'', 
> i.e., the Big Bang?  Anyhow, one point for amusement value.
>
> That'd make the believers almost exclusively Cockney in the old and 
> truer sense of being born within earshot of the bells of Bow Church 
> (these days it tends to be a label given to any Londoner).  I don't 
> see Cockney folks buying into that really.  Also, Rule 2.
>

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J-J Cote
jjcote at alum.mit.edu

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