[lbo-talk] Speaking of the Devil...

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Tue Aug 29 21:57:00 PDT 2006


Now that you mention it, I suspect my HP inkjet printer is possessed by the Devil. Well, actually, I firmly believe it IS the devil, but I thought that might sound a bit over-the-top. So I toned it down. Anyhow, its utterly EVIL and vindictive.

It is completely impossible to get it to print an entire document without having to start over and over again. I've tried all sorts of tricks to get around its warped and fiendish ways, even printing documents a single page at a time. But that doesn't work either, it has all sorts of tricks up its sleeve, like refusing to acknowledge the existence of some pages in the document if you try to print just that page.

Maybe it has been programmed with artificial evil? I don't know. It doesn't help that I try to print MS Word documents with it, giving rise to what's known as an 'Axis of Evil'.

Never mind Hitler and Stalin, they were mere mortals. The thing about the HP inkjet is that it doesn't seem to ever die. If it would just die, like a cheap inkjet would be expected to, I could simply go and buy another one. But it won't, oh no! It just sits there plotting its next terrorist atrocity against my documents.

I don't know what I've done to deserve it. Probably eating meat. Though why a printer would care about that I have no idea.

Uh oh! Its on to me, the modem has disconnected and the phone line just went dead in the middle of writing this. I thought I was safe sending an email, with Eudora, thought the printer wouldn't catch on. I've underestimated Satan again. I'll have to try to sneak this message out later.

Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas

At 7:56 PM -0700 29/8/06, Mike Ballard wrote:


>Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Stalin were possessed by the Devil,
>the Vatican's chief exorcist has claimed.
>Father Gabriele Amorth who is Pope Benedict XVI's 'caster out of
>demons' made his comments during an interview with Vatican Radio.
>Father Amorth said: "Of course the Devil exists and he can not only
>possess a single person but also groups and entire populations.
>"I am convinced that the Nazis were all possessed. All you have to
>do is think about what Hitler - and Stalin did. Almost certainly
>they were possessed by the Devil.
>"You can tell by their behaviour and their actions, from the horrors
>they committed and the atrocities that were committed on their
>orders. That's why we need to defend society from demons."
>According to secret Vatican documents recently released wartime
>pontiff Pope Pius XII attempted a "long distance" exorcism of Hitler
>which failed to have any effect.
>
><http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=402602&in_page_id=1770>more
>crazy
>
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>
>
>***********************
>
>Sometimes we forget that theocrats, other than the Islamic
>fanatics, have possession of States too. As the old saying goes,
>"possession is 9/10's of the law."
>
>Best,
>Mike B)
>
>
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