[Ads-l] Is there *anything* that can't be dumbed down?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Apr 1 21:34:16 UTC 2018


In an e-mail from America Media, published by the Jesuits:

"_Easter_ candle"

Back when, the term was "_Paschal_ candle."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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