[lit-ideas] Re: Why am I not surprised?
- From: John Wager <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:16:49 -0500
Mike Geary wrote:
JK:
God punished Onan because he failed to honour his cultural familial
responsibility out of jealousy and resentment. <<
Yes, this is what I was taught by the priests. Onanism is synonymous
with coitus-interruptus, not jacking off. He was smote dead on the
spot by God not for spilling his seed but for breaking the traditional
cultural practice.
But that ruins Dorothy Parker's name for her parakeet. It was, as you
all already know or might suspect, Onan.
Why was Parker's parakeet named Onan?
Because he spilled..........
--
-------------------------------------------------
"Never attribute to malice that which can be
explained by incompetence and ignorance."
-------------------------------------------------
John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lisle, IL, USA
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
