The Infant Samuel Not At Prayer

[The Eighteen Carat Kid]

Following on from a topic I started a couple of years ago which went
like this:
--In between bouts of infant-wrangling I've been reading several
rather
--large books in which brainy chaps declare their revulson for the
--creeds of our fathers (possibly because they were denied the first
--prize in scripture knowledge and have never quite got over the
--feelings of bitterness and resentment at the fact). The thing that
--strikes me about these chaps (D Adams in "The Salmon of Doubt", R
--Dawkins in "The God Delusion" and C Hitchens in "God Is Not Great")
is
--that they all mention Plum in glowing terms in the course of their
--disquisitions. This set me wondering (for I too am of a nihilistic
--persuasion) whether there might be some pattern. Does Wodehouse lead
--to apostasy? Have any of you had the urge - quite unexplained - to
be
--unkind to an archbishop? Conversely, has anyone met a Deacon who was
--truly Sound on Wodehouse?

I recently bought a copy of "The Atheists Guide to Christmas" which
contains a very fine wodehouse-style discussion, penned by this
Dawkins chap of whom I spoke, between some faux-Wooster character and
an ersatz Jeeves. It covers all manner of topics ranging from the
heretical to the blasphemous and I enjoyed it immensely. If you have
an aunt who is both a plummophile and an enemy of the clergy, may I
suggest it as a Christmas gift?

[Mike Schilling]

Post by The Eighteen Carat Kid
Following on from a topic I started a couple of years ago which went
--In between bouts of infant-wrangling I've been reading several
rather
--large books in which brainy chaps declare their revulson for the
--creeds of our fathers (possibly because they were denied the first
--prize in scripture knowledge and have never quite got over the
--feelings of bitterness and resentment at the fact). The thing that
--strikes me about these chaps (D Adams in "The Salmon of Doubt", R
--Dawkins in "The God Delusion" and C Hitchens in "God Is Not
Great")
is
--that they all mention Plum in glowing terms in the course of their
--disquisitions. This set me wondering (for I too am of a nihilistic
--persuasion) whether there might be some pattern. Does Wodehouse lead
--to apostasy? Have any of you had the urge - quite unexplained - to
be
--unkind to an archbishop? Conversely, has anyone met a Deacon who was
--truly Sound on Wodehouse?

Evelyn Waugh and Malcolm Muggeridge, both about as Catholic as it's
possible to be while not actually taking vows, were entirely sound on
Plum.

[Alan Follett]

Post by Mike Schilling

Post by The Eighteen Carat Kid
Following on from a topic I started a couple of years ago which went
--In between bouts of infant-wrangling I've been reading several
rather
--large books in which brainy chaps declare their revulson for the
--creeds of our fathers (possibly because they were denied the first
--prize in scripture knowledge and have never quite got over the
--feelings of bitterness and resentment at the fact). The thing that
--strikes me about these chaps (D Adams in "The Salmon of Doubt", R
--Dawkins in "The God Delusion" and C Hitchens in "God Is Not Great")
is
--that they all mention Plum in glowing terms in the course of their
--disquisitions. This set me wondering (for I too am of a nihilistic
--persuasion) whether there might be some pattern. Does Wodehouse lead
--to apostasy? Have any of you had the urge - quite unexplained - to
be
--unkind to an archbishop? Conversely, has anyone met a Deacon who was
--truly Sound on Wodehouse?

Evelyn Waugh and Malcolm Muggeridge, both about as Catholic as it's
possible to be while not actually taking vows, were entirely sound on
Plum

What ho, 18CK and Mike;

Eh, il me semble que due appreciation of Plum transcends the trivial
divisions of religion, as it does those of politics, and even the
somewhat
more significant schisms of martini preferences.

Ta!
Le Vicomte de Blissac