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• Baptists & Barbituates (Score:1)

  by frag (2738)

  Some fundamentalists tend to pay a lot of attention to the details of events in the Greater Metropolitan Holy Land. A lot of rapt attention. (Pun intended.) Which is plenty reason right there to grab that bottle of Beam and drink deeply.

  As for pharmacists, they have mighty powers indeed. They could lose their own license (and voting rights, several years of their lives, etc.) if they give a bad prescription: i.e. if a bug-eyed gent comes in at 2 a.m. with a piece of kleenex emblazoned "GIV HEM SOME DRGZ
  • Re:Baptists & Barbituates (Score:1)

    by pudge (1)

    Yes, because what other people pay attention to is of great significance to everyone else ...
    • Re:Baptists & Barbituates (Score:1)

      by frag (2738)

      OK, I should've been more explicit. They (some, that is; not all) are very interested in this particular turf war because they're looking for the signs of the one big Apocaylpse. And I don't mean "Chapter 29 - Functions". Looking, and to some extent, hoping.

      It's why I find "this car will be unattended in event of Rapture" bumper stickers disturbing; there you have someone proclaiming that they're actually looking forward to the end of the world. Now more than ever, I find that outlook chilling.
      • Re:Baptists & Barbituates (Score:1)

        by pudge (1)

        I can't imagine why it is disturbing or chilling, as long as they aren't acting to bring it about.
        • Re:Baptists & Barbituates (Score:1)

          by frag (2738) <reversethis-{moc.ocpir} {ta} {garf}> on 2002.04.27 17:56 (#7653)

          People who look forward to events involving the death of others - even when it isn't really the death of others they're wishing for, just that they simply regard any deaths resulting from Armageddon as the inevitable eggs that must be cracked in order for the great Cook to prepare the sacred omelette of the Second Coming - creep me out. Guilty as charged.

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          • Re:Baptists & Barbituates (Score:1)

            by pudge (1)

            I could respond to that if it made any sense whatsoever. Ho hum.