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Author: Derek JanssenDerek Janssen Date: Apr 10, 2007 11:41
Invid Fan wrote:
> In article comcast.com>, Derek
> Janssen comcast.net> wrote:
>
> >>Juan F. Lara wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>I'm an atheist,
>>>>
>>>>(...Ever hear one that didn't TELL us they were?)
>>>
>>If they DIDN'T tell you, would Isaac Asimov, Matt Groening or Penn
>>Jillette still have an act? :)
>
> Probably, given it has little do with their main work (I had no idea
> about Penn until his radio show and BS
(Um, the rather overenthusiastic "Magic?...It's all a BIG FAT LIE!!"
motif, not to mention the distinct brand of personal charisma?
Plus, his talking about his mom dying when he was a kid, the usual
qualifications for athie Type A out of four.)
> and nobody reading Asimov's
> Guide to the Bible would put him as an unbeliever).
(Whereas anyone who read "Nightfall" would put him in the
Obnoxious-Narcissistic-Blowhard camp right next to Philip Pullman...)
Derek Janssen (and as for Groening...Remember when the Simpsons had
plots and gags, instead of lectures and sniping?)
ejanss@ comast.net
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