"Commissary berries" in Paris Hilton story

[Charles Doyle]

God plucked him.

--Charlie
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>Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:28:50 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: "Commissary berries" in Paris Hilton story
least "*commissary dingleberry" makes some sense.
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>  No Google hits for that or "commissary berry."
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>  However, according to _Foxe's Book of Martyrs_, one Commissary Berry was a hypocritical 16th C. preacher and persecutor of Catholics who was struck dead for rejoicing at the death of Mary Tudor in 1558.
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>  http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/main/12_1576_1929.jsp
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>  JL

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