M. Vincent van Mechelen
   NOTES OF THE METRIC MONTHS
    FROM 56 TO 59 ASWW
   
    To the
     first note of the year
    
    
   
      CAUGHT IN THE CROSS- AND CRESCENT-FIRE
 Those not adhering to one of the major Abraham religions who are
 inclined to think "Let them kill one another" must not forget that they
 may have an equal chance of being caught in the Cross- and Crescent-fire
 themselves.
    59.MNE-59th Late Southwest
      
    
   
      SWINGING THE BIG PRICK
 What do you call the argument of a man who says that he will
 rape you, if you don't agree that he may have you?
 
    44.ENE-59th Mid-Southwest
    
   
      SCRIPTURE AND THE DEVIL
 The devil can not only cite Scripture for its or
 'er
 or his purpose, the devil needs Scripture for its or 'er or his
 purpose.
 Take anti-Jewish
 religionism
 or racism, for instance.
 
    59.LNE-59th Early Southwest
    
   
      FOUR-CHARACTER WORD
 The female appendage as a four-character word: 'Lieutenant and Mrs. Peter
 Buckland, R.N. (Retd.)'.
    44.MNW-59th Late Southeast
    
   
      THE MERCHANT OF VENOM
 Shakespeare was also a businessperson, rather than an innovator,
 in that
 'e
 —or rather he— exploited several types of contemporary
 prejudice (from the lowest popular sentiments to cultivated superstition)
 in order to please his Christianist audience and to suit his monarchist
 clients.
    59.LNE-59th Mid-Southeast
    
   
      SPECULATION
 The essential thing which capitalism and
 supernaturalism
 have in common is speculation.
    42.LSW-59th Early Southeast
    
   
      AN ANT ON THE NIGHTWATCH
 Some people visit
 TRINPsite
 and have only some sour comment on the presentation.
 They remind me of the ant who, after a visit to the Nightwatch, was asked
 what
 'e
 thought of the work and whose answer was that 'e didn't like the bitter
 taste of the canvas.
    59.LNE-59th Central Month
    
   
      THE CALLOUSED HAND OF GOD
 According to the Abraham religions pure and simple an AIDS patient
 is not the victim of a disease but the target of a supreme being.
    42.MNE-59th Late Northwest
    
   
      A TREACLE TART
 What do the British call a prostitute who is fond of molasses?
    59.ENE-59th Mid-Northwest
    
   
      GOD AND THE DEVIL EXIST
 I know God  and the Devil exist, but
 i
 do not believe in God or the Devil.
    ca 30 aSWW-59th Early Northwest
    
   
      FASHIONS WAITING TO BE TRANSCENDED
 Selective anti-racism, anti-'anti-Semitism' and verbal anti-sexism
 are fashions waiting to be transcended by a total view of the
 relevancy,
 or rather irrelevancy, of discrimination.
    38.MNE-59th Late Northeast
    
   
      SUSPENSION IN LITERATURE AND IN RELIGION
 To look upon the Vedas, the Bible and the Koran as literary writings is to
 ask for a temporary suspension of disbelief; to look upon them as sacred
 writings for oneself is to demand an eternal suspension of reason and
 common sense.
    58.MSE-59th Mid-Northeast
    
   
      YES A MASS-MURDERER, BUT NO HOMOSEXUAL
 President Museveni of Uganda is willing to let Idi Amin be buried
 there, but refuses to admit that, in the late (heterosexual)
 mass-murderer's country, some fellow-citizens may be homosexual.
 
    [from ?]-75th Early Northeast
    
   
      A MONSTROSITY
 Isn't it tragicomic that a member of such an
 exclusivist
 political monstrosity as the British House of Lords denounced the word
 relevant as a monstrosity? How antirelevant the lords and ladies of
 irrelevantism
 can get!
    42.MSE-58th Late Southwest
    
   
      ORAL EXAM
 The sex-worker flunked her oral exam, because she didn't know how to
 pronounce her client's name right during the act.
    58.ENE-58th Mid-Southwest
    
   
      NO MENTION
 The Abraham religions will eventually be brought to justice by a book in
 which they are not mentioned.
    38.ESE-58th Early Southwest
    
   
      A SPLINTER GROUP
 What do you call a small community of lumberjacks?
    58.CEN-58th Late Southeast
    
   
      THE QUEEN SAVE GOD
 In this time of dechristianization it is the Queen and her suite who are
 left with the dreadful task of saving God from Allah and nothing.
    ca 29.CEN-58th Mid-Southeast
    
   
      HOW NOT TO BAKE A CHERRIE PIE
 The other day a theater advertisement in Amsterdam read:
 "How to Bake a Cherrie Pie". The title of the play should have been:
 "How to Spell a Cherry Pie".
    39.LNE-58th Early Southeast
    
   
      ALAS, NOT TO THE NORM
 Someone who claims that 'no-one comes to the Father but by me' has not
 come to
 the Norm.
    58.ENW-58th Central Month
    
   
      GREAT BRITON
 Not all Brits are great.
    42.ENE-58th Late Northwest
    
   
      LET BELIEVERS LIE AND DON'T
 For some people God and Heaven, Devil and Hell, may be worth
 believing in (and lying about), for no-one they are worth starting to
 believe in.
    57.CEN-58th Mid-Northwest
    
   
      THEIR DOCTORS DO NOT HAVE GENITALS
 In traditional English everyone is a 'Mr Sex-and-So' or a 'Mrs
 Sex-and-So' (if married), as if gender were always fully relevant,
 except a doctor: he or she is not a Mr or a Mrs but a 'Doctor
 So-and-So', regardless of sex.
    58.ENE-58th Early Northwest
    
   
      ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS
 Orthodox religious schools teach the language of Leviathan,
 the physics of a flat earth, the chemistry of brimstone, and biology
 out of nothing.
    43.MNE-58th Late Northeast
    
   
      A GRASSSHOPPER
 What do you call someone with long legs who jumps out to buy
 marijuana somewhere in a building used for selling to the public?
    57.MSW-58th Mid-Northeast
    
   
      TURKEYS!
 What do you call living beings that are not exclusively male or
 not exclusively heterosexual or not living in Israel or not even
 monotheistic, and that celebrate Christmas nevertheless?
    42.CEN-58th Early Northeast
    
   
      GOING THROUGH HER DRAWERS
 She caught him going through her drawers. But then she noticed
 with a deep sigh ... that she did not have them on.
    57.CEN-57th Late Southwest
    
   
      JUDEO-CHRISTIANIST LUNATICS
 A Judeo-Christianist regime sends astronauts to the moon in order
 to read from their Bible and to pray to their God, using the natural
 distance for the corroboration of their
 supernaturalist
 illusions.
    36.ENE-57th Mid-Southwest
    
   
      CLOSING HER EYES AND THINKING OF
          G.B.'S PARTS
 Queen Victoria closed her eyes and thought of England during
 vaginal copulation. It makes one wonder what she was doing while
 closing her eyes and thinking of Wales or Scotland.
    57.ENE-57th Early Southwest
    
   
      GERMAN-CATHOLIC THEODEMONISM
 A Catholic bishop claims that the August floods in Germany were
 God's punishment for today's sins. As these floods were the worst in
 100 years, it proves again that his august god was not in the least
 disturbed by the mass murder of millions of innocent people in the same
 region only 60 years earlier, when there were no such floods.
    57.MSE-57th Late Southeast
    
   
      "NOT ANY MORE"
 Grandma's condition is rapidly deteriorating. On the form she had
 to complete for the insurance company she filled in under her personal
 data after SEX: "not any
 more". But it's all her own fault, ...
 for there are enough nice men who prefer a mature lady to a silly wench.
    57.LNW-57th Mid-Southeast
    
   
      WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
 If the whole later development of Western philosophy can be
 regarded as a series of extended footnotes to Plato, then it is high
 time to start a new book.
    35.MSW-57th Early Southeast
    
   
      CHRISTIAN TALIBAN
 What good does it do a country when it has rid the whole world
 of an Islamic Taliban, while a Christian Taliban is taking over
 within itself?
    57.LNE-57th Central Month
    
   
      A QUESTION OF SUCCESSION (DUTIES)
 Under current law citizens such as Elizabeth Windsor and Beatrix zur Lippe
 do not have to pay succession duties on their excessive inheritances, but
 hypocritical politicians who claim to be in favor of social justice and
 equality before the law keep on collaborating blithely and faithfully with
 this discriminatory
 monarchism.
 The real question is therefore not so much who will succeed these
 monarchs, but who will succeed these politicians.
    57.LNW-57th Late Northwest
    
   
      WHAT'S A MISEROTIC?
 A miserotic
 |MAIza-ROtik| is a miser
 who enjoys saving his or her virginity or chastity and who eschews even
 the simplest and safest forms of erotic satisfaction.
    57.ENE-57th Mid-Northwest
    
   
      MAHARAJAS
 Where India managed to get rid of hundreds of maharajas, countries
 like the United Kingdom did not even manage to get rid of merely one.
    56.MNW-57th Early Northwest
    
   
      ADOLF SCHWEITZER
 A sacred book that combines the writings and ideas of Adolf Hitler and
 Albert Schweitzer in one volume is my abomination, even
 tho
 its unity is supposed to be provided by calling both of them "God".
    40.ENE-57th Late Northeast
    
   
      THE UK HAD BETTER BE PREPARED
 The United Kingdom —and
 i
 don't mean Great Britain or Ireland— had better be prepared, for the
 Christian Middle Ages are bound to be succeeded by another era!
    42.LNW-57th Mid-Northeast
    
   
      EURO QUESTION
 As 
 Dutch-made 2-euro coins
 have the nazi SS motto on the edge, will it be possible to pay with German
 euro coins instead in the Netherlands?
    56.LSW-57th Early Northeast
    
   
      AGAIN, THE SON OF A CARPENTER
 I, too, am the son of a carpenter, but the real son of a carpenter who
 later became a model maker, architect and artist and who would never have
 rejoiced at merely being Superman's foster father.
    41.MSW-56th Late Southwest
    
   
      BEGGARS AND MILLIONAIRES
 Traveling
 thru
 Europe and North America you see more and more beggars in the streets and
 more and more millionaires in the papers.
    56.MSE-56th Mid-Southwest
    
   
      THE BIBLE IS RIGHT
 The Bible is right: it is said to contain 1600 hostile references to
 left-handers.
    56.ESE-56th Early Southwest
    
   
      THIS LANGUAGE
 I don't write in British English for the British nor in American English
 for the Americans, but
 i
 write as a world citizen for other world citizens in
 This Language, which is, at
 the moment, spoken as a first or foreign language by more people than any
 other language.
    45.MSW-56th Late Southeast
    
   
      MUTUAL SUCCOR
 The sociable relieve each other by mutual succor.
 
    39.LNE-56th Mid-Southeast
    
   
      IDEAS FROM THE STONE THROWERS AGE
 There is still an army of hate critters going around with
 denominational
 ideas from the Stone Throwers Age.
 
    56.LNW-56th Early Southeast
    
   
      IT IS WHAT TO CARESS WHAT?
 It is mere consonance to caress your cat; 
 it is alliteration to caress your relative.
 
    56.LNE-56th Central Month
    
   
      THE THIRTEENTH SUPERSTITION
 Where people are so superstitious that they dare not live on the
 thirteenth floor of an apartment building, unless it is given the
 number 14, you wonder about the quality of their other beliefs.
 
    26 aSWW-56th Late Northwest
    
   
      A LITERARY TRAGEDY
 Dante's Divine Comedy is indigestible — what a waste of
 talent, what a literary tragedy.
 It makes the Biblical weather forecast come true: Heaven is even worse
 than Hell.
 
    55.MSE-56th Mid-Northwest
    
   
      PRST... THE OLDEST PROFESSION
 The oldest profession may be either prostitution or the priesthood.
    56.LNE-56th Early Northwest
    
   
      A SHARE OF JOKES 'N' JIBES
 Anyone entering the ideological arena is likely to receive 'er
 share of jokes and jibes. Receiving a share of jokes and jibes is itself
 a sign of being recognized in the ideological arena.
    42.CEN-56th Late Northeast
    
    
      SOMETHING TO HISS AT
 Feminists who substitute woman, women or her for
 man, men or his in every word, even where these
 three letters do not, and never did, refer to males at all (as in the
 word history), are womentally ill womaniacs. Perhaps, they can
 be cured from their allergy with a little bit of antihertamine.
    42.LNE-56th Mid-Northeast
    
   
      IT'S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
 Worldwide-Webbers don't go Gregorian anymore — it's only a matter of
 (Metric) time.
    56.ENE-56th Early Northeast
      
    
   
    
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