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    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.<br>
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    Jean-Joseph<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/25/2020 9:38 AM, Ziv Stern wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAJ=5cL-cfyn6kKX1ACsD==EAAGpRLpxozAx1dChCFpiXy2-gQA@mail.gmail.com">
      <p dir="ltr"
        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">asteism, n. a belief popular in the vicinity of Bow Church (London) that the world was created in five days. </span></p>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jean-Joseph: 1 + 1 = 2</span></p>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.)</span></p>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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J-J Cote
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jjcote@alum.mit.edu">jjcote@alum.mit.edu</a></pre>
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