A sugar-induced hallucination...
Nov. 13th, 2002 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI'm at the store, just back from the next-door City Market with some donuts. While checking out, I spied a headline on one of those Inquirer-type rags that inhabit the magazine racks at the check-out (and which pass for mainstream press in some parts of Europe). In great, screaming letters, the issue promised to reveal to the reader Osama bin Laden's predictions for the future. (Insert your favorite bin Laden joke here.)
Anyway, it got me to thinking about a similar headline I saw while checking out of the Wal-Mart in Durango last Sunday, as Galina and I stocked up on groceries on the way home to Pagosa. The headline proclaimed something along the lines of "Tablet found with three lost Commandments!" I chuckled as I passed by, recalling another headline from several years back, informing the gullible that Noah's Ark had finally been found, intact, in Pennsylvania.
Seeing today's headline gave me pause, however. I had missed an opportunity at Wal-Mart. If three new commandments had been uncovered, it would have been an ideal chance to find out if the Eleventh Commandment really was "Thou shalt not get caught."
:^)
Cheers...
Anyway, it got me to thinking about a similar headline I saw while checking out of the Wal-Mart in Durango last Sunday, as Galina and I stocked up on groceries on the way home to Pagosa. The headline proclaimed something along the lines of "Tablet found with three lost Commandments!" I chuckled as I passed by, recalling another headline from several years back, informing the gullible that Noah's Ark had finally been found, intact, in Pennsylvania.
Seeing today's headline gave me pause, however. I had missed an opportunity at Wal-Mart. If three new commandments had been uncovered, it would have been an ideal chance to find out if the Eleventh Commandment really was "Thou shalt not get caught."
:^)
Cheers...
