[Fictionary] ASTEISM results!

[Elizabeth Heffner]

So, am I right in thinking I should do the next word?  I do have one
potential candidate ready to test out for existing knowledge.

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On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 5:18 PM E Cohen <eac at inbox.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>
> >
> > --
> > J-J Cote
> > jjcote at alum.mit.edu
> >
>
>
> --
> -- Eric   |   eac at inbox.com
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