Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!bottom@katadn.DEC From: bottom@katadn.DEC Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame Subject: Re: Secular humanism arg. sidetracked Message-ID: <622@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 12:32:21 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.622 Posted: Tue Oct 1 12:32:21 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 07:19:58 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.politics:11297 net.flame:12140 Mike Huybensz >Probably a mispelling of "electurd", the abbreviation for "elected >turd" Was he using that with "Raygun"? No the word was electrode, meaning an electrical contact used by some fundamentalists associated with the Rev. J. Falwell to discipline small children in Sunday school. If the child was not behaving as the teacher wished they would "chastise" the child electrically. This practice was stopped after a lawsuit was filed by the parents of one of these "bad" children. Dave Bottom DEC Augusta Maine !dec-rhea!dec-katadn!bottom ***These are my opinions not DEC, not my fellow employees*** Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com