Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

William George Ferguson <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"William F. Adams"wrote:
>>David McMillan <spamt...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> I noted the bit all "All seven Popes."  I guess Sparkiness made the
>>> breakup of the Roman Empire a bit more, er, *fragemented* in the GG
'verse.
>>
>>Yeah, it was an interesting historical tidbit.
>>
>>Almost makes one wonder if they've done a list of saints as well ---
>>who'd be the patron saint of sparks?
>
>St. Vidicon of Cathode would be a good one.

Heh.  I'd take Saint Barbara, invoked against things that go boom.  And, 
naturally, patron of all those who make, fire or work around things that 
go boom.  

Not to mention that the people who martyred her were struck by lightning
afterward, the kind of timing error a spark would understand.

Peace,
Liz

-- 
Liz Broadwell (username-in-header at orphco dot org), Charter Orphan
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