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Cartoonist

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Sun Jul 10, 2016, 03:20 PM Jul 2016

Holywood [View all]

No, I didn't forget an l. I just started reading a story that involves a church in Scotland that has a piece of the Cross.

Of all the idiotic ideas people have come up with throughout history, this is the champ. I could sooner believe in unicorns than this nonsense.

Here's an excerpt from Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad

From the cistern we descended twelve steps into a large roughly-shaped grotto, carved wholly out of the living rock. Helena blasted it out when she was searching for the true Cross. She had a laborious piece of work, here, but it was richly rewarded. Out of this place she got the crown of thorns, the nails of the cross, the true Cross itself, and the cross of the penitent thief. When she thought she had found everything and was about to stop, she was told in a dream to continue a day longer. It was very fortunate. She did so, and found the cross of the other thief.

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Holywood [View all] Cartoonist Jul 2016 OP
Actual grownups. Iggo Jul 2016 #1
Twain didn't believe a word of it Warpy Jul 2016 #2
"brief correspondence with my grandfather " progressoid Jul 2016 #3
That's about all there is Warpy Jul 2016 #5
Dang. That's a shame. progressoid Jul 2016 #6
Maybe... uriel1972 Jul 2016 #4
Yay Verily, 'tis faith that prys open the Christian wallet. Freelancer Jul 2016 #7
Who needs an orginal when you can have... NeoGreen Jul 2016 #8
New(er) and Improved! AlbertCat Jul 2016 #9
Even newerer, but not sure about improveder OriginalGeek Jul 2016 #10
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