Re: Chimps outsmart college students

Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <477befee$0$36321$742ec2ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "James Gassaway" <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>> In article <47785ff0$0$36391$742ec2ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> "James Gassaway" <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> peachy a****e passion wrote:
>>>>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <84Edj.34861$NL5.6927@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>>>>  peachy a****e passion <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He went to Germany (not intending to stay) to make a bunch of
>>>>>>>> money. Apparently at the time you filled out a form with your
>>>>>>>> work permits as to your religion and who you were going to
>>>>>>>> tithe too. He wrote 'none' This didn't sit well with the
>>>>>>>> powers that be, so they started investigating him.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Then they sent some flunky to tell him that the found out he
>>>>>>>> was a Catholic in the USA, so he had to give the German
>>>>>>>> Catholic church money. He laughed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They sent increasingly higher and higher ups after him, finally
>>>>>>>> getting to some ridiculous level like a Bishop (for Monty
>>>>>>>> Python fans:  "It's the Bishop!!")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He told the guy that as far as he was concerned, the US
>>>>>>>> Catholic church and the German Catholic church were 2
>>>>>>>> different religions, and the German Catholic church wasn't
>>>>>>>> getting a dime.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The German Catholic church excommunicated and damned him.  But
>>>>>>>> here's the catch:  It didn't come from the Vatican.  They did
>>>>>>>> it at a local level.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, if he were to get over the border before he breathed his
>>>>>>>> last breath, he was okay.  But if he were to die within
>>>>>>>> Germany, he went straight to Hell.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He didn't make it over the border in time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    I see.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  goodness, religion can be complex.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It does make you wonder how anyone can do anything but point at
>>>>>> the Pope and laugh.
>>>>>
>>>>>   Not me.  I've known much funnier religions.
>>>>
>>>> "If you pay us $10,000 we'll show you how to pay us $100,000 to get
>>>> the aliens out of your head!"
>>>
>>> Worse than that, it obviously doesn't work.
>>
>> If I didn't know better, I'd suspect you were trying to imply
>> something about me there.
>
> LOL, no, I was thinking of Tom Cruise and/or Kirstie Alley.

I don't think even the aliens want Tom Cruise.  How else do you explain
him 
surviving that 'War Of The Worlds' farce?

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