On Friday 20 June 2003 7:54 am, Paul Edwards posed the following:

> There are thirty books of the Bible in this paragraph.  Can you find them?

Presuming, for the moment, that the first sentance is in fact asking you to 
find a different occurrace of "thirty books" than the sentance itself, we see 
at the end...

> [...] there really are 30
> books of the Bible lurking somewhere in this paragraph waiting to be found.

which is where I'll stipulate is the answer.  The remaining "fluff" text:

> This is a most remarkable puzzle.  It was found by a gentleman in an
> airplane seat pocket, on a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu, keeping him
> occupied for hours. ...

is a red herring -- if indeed someone had found it stuffed in a seat pocket, 
why would it contain the text "He enjoyed it so much, he passed it on to some 
friends."?  [or any of the other "future occurances and comments" that would 
not have existed for "the gentleman in an airplane"]

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