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Gene Wirchenko  
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 More options Sep 1 2012, 8:52 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: Gene Wirchenko <ge...@ocis.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2012 17:52:55 -0700
Local: Sat, Sep 1 2012 8:52 pm
Subject: Re: Christian, creation based science fiction
On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:08:18 -0400, Kip Williams <mrk...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko wrote, On 9/1/12 3:33 PM:
>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:25:30 -0400, Kip Williams <mrk...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:

>>> Gene Wirchenko wrote, On 8/31/12 11:06 PM:
>>>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:28:07 -0400, Kip Williams <mrk...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:

>>>>> Gene Wirchenko wrote, On 8/31/12 3:49 PM:
>>>>>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:43:32 -0400, Kip Williams <mrk...@gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:

>>>>>>> Gene Wirchenko wrote, On 8/31/12 12:47 AM:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:29:55 -0400, Kip Williams <mrk...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:

>>>>>>>>> David DeLaney wrote, On 8/31/12 12:23 AM:
>>>>>>>>>> Williams <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Gene Wirchenko wrote, On 8/30/12 6:55 PM:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Williams <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gene Wirchenko wrote, On 8/30/12 3:19 PM:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Williams <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gene Wirchenko wrote, On 8/30/12 1:41 AM:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Williams <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Walter Bushell wrote, On 8/22/12 2:18 PM:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Williams <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote, On 8/21/12 1:22 PM:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Williams said:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote, On 8/21/12 11:17 AM:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now I'm trying to remember the passage (again in C. S. Lewis, but
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I can't remember where) in which he quotes St. Augustine (we seem
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to be having an Augustinian morning)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ...

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The august Augustine!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ah, what is so rare as an August day?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A February day is somewhat rarer.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Especially the 29th.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Should have said august August August day, I guess.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> That's a day to seize.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There you go, carping again.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>              If you keep on, you will belabour the point.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Backtalking again. I diem this unnecessary.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>             I censure you for your censoring attempt.

>>>>>>>>>>>>> I knew I picked the wrong day to give up seizing days.

>>>>>>>>>>>>            No, I agree with you ceasing seizing days.

>>>>>>>>>>> I used to be such an august seizer.

>>>>>>>>>> Bless you!

>>>>>>>>> Sneeze the day.

>>>>>>>>          All diem day would be unpleasant.

>>>>>>> You should ask for a per diem.

>>>>>>         While that would be nothing to sneeze at, the paperwork might get
>>>>>> messy.

>>>>> Only if you sneezed at it.

>>>>        But an all-day sneezing fit would make any paperwork unfit.

>>> Or a tissue of lies.

>>>>        (How long do you think we can kip this pun thread blowing along?)

>>> Too long. I suspect it's in our genes.

>>       Well, our Gene -- that's me -- is only a part of it.

>Hey! You don't just repeat my pun. Would you like a do-over?

     <cough><cough>I did not.  You snipped this important part of my
contribution:
          Gene "whistling in the, uh, breeze" Wirchenko
You hack!

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko


 
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