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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:01:58 -0400
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Thus it was written in the epistle of Joe Geiser,
> Wirt adds to this silliness (although Wirt was not being silly here)...
>
> > So long as you use your bookcase to store your diplomas (your
> > credentials),
> > your most sacred beliefs (your creeds), your private papers (your
> > confidentials), and your account receivables (your credits), you
> > officially
> > have a credenza, regardless of what it looks like. That's what
> > the word means
> > in Italian -- and is no more than a "vulgarized" version of the
> > Latin word,
> > credentia.
>
> Hmmm, and mine has most of the above, AND a bottle of Jack Daniels for days
> like today... does that count?  :)

Well, does that fall under "your most sacred beliefs?" :-)

Ted
--
Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
          ==========================================================
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take
the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
                        -- Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)

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