Re: Thanksgiving Prayer

Pat Kohli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > >
> > > For the record...I told Error to go home and tell his mother he had just met
> > > his
> > > father.....it's a standard Oz greeting when encountering complete bastards.
> >
> > Calling someone a *bastard* insinuates that person's mother was a
> > whore,
> 
> No, George.  The term 'bastard' means that one's parents are not married to
> eachother.  For example, Alexander Hamilton was conceived out of wedlock.
> http://earlyamerica.com/review/2002_winter_spring/hamilton2.html
> 
> It certainly did not make his mother a whore.
> 
> > when all I did was inclose information reflecting to 19 century
> > Irish-American-Australian history.
> >
> 
> Yet, it turns out that Rod had not even called you a bastard, yet, only an
> inscrutable Ozzie phrase about meeting one's father later on in life, a thing
> which might transpire if one's father had been imprisoned for a long term less
> than a year after one's conception - circumstances which have no bearing
> whatsoever on one's mother's virtue, much less, professionalism.
> 
> Did the space aliens tell you that Rod's retort meant your Mum charged money for
> services rendered?
> 

Nah - it was the lady herself who said that to Error.

Paul