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really real

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Sep 8, 2006, 12:49:18 AM9/8/06
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> http://www.sainthermanpress.com/presshistory/stherman.htm
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> http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/herman.htm
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> http://www.oca.org/FS.NA-Saint.asp?SID=4&Saint=Herman

Thanks! I can now see why Dylan chose St.Herman for his song lyric. This
guy was the first American saint, a missionary who came from Russia and
lived on a tiny island near Kodiak and served the Aleuts. He lived in a
cave on this island and was your classic, selfless saint, though who
knows what he was really like and if he ever abused his position with
the young boys of the island?

There's a great story of Herman getting this awful abscess which
disfigured his face and stank horribly. He cured it by wiping a wet
towel over a Virgin Mary icon, and then wiping his abscess with it.
I wonder if Dylan identified with any of that story?

Mr Jinx

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Sep 8, 2006, 6:48:01 AM9/8/06
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A while back he was afflicted with a scrotum chin. Thankfully St.
Herman came to his aid with the sweat of a hundred nubile altar boys
and cured the toothache in his heel. The scrotum chin receeded and
there was no need to confess again.

Mr Jinx

AGGreen

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Sep 8, 2006, 8:36:33 AM9/8/06
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"Mr Jinx" <vernon_...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> A while back he was afflicted with a scrotum chin. Thankfully St.
> Herman came to his aid with the sweat of a hundred nubile altar boys
> and cured the toothache in his heel. The scrotum chin receeded and
> there was no need to confess again.
>
> Mr Jinx


***So sayeth a true nut case!


really real

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Sep 8, 2006, 10:25:56 AM9/8/06
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>
> A while back he was afflicted with a scrotum chin. Thankfully St.
> Herman came to his aid with the sweat of a hundred nubile altar boys
> and cured the toothache in his heel. The scrotum chin receded and

> there was no need to confess again.
>

Well, I always heard it was a case of scrotum jowl, not scrotum chin,
and the story I heard was that Dylan sold his soul to the devil at the
crossroads for a facial nip and tuck.

Mr Jinx

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Sep 8, 2006, 10:33:31 AM9/8/06
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Actually now you mention it I think it was a scrotum neck. It depended
which way you looked at it (ie. stage left it would be a scrotum neck,
dead ahead it's a chin).

Dylan sold his soul to Starbucks at the crossroads. It was a drug deal.

Mr Jinx

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