[Fictionary] ASTEISM results!

[E Cohen]

On 25-May-20 17:00, Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:
> 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.

Oooooh!

But I pronounce the word with an /ae/. Like "nastyism".


> 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
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