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April 03, 2007
Perhaps This Is What People Mean When They Send You Email Saying "Jesus Christ Retarded Operating"
I just learned via wikipedia that there's a place in Jerusalem between the Temple Mount and Mount Zion called the Valley of the Cheesemakers.
I assume this wasn't known to the members of Monty Python when they were writing the Sermon on the Mount scene in Life of Brian that depicts crowd members misunderstanding Jesus as saying "Blessed are the Cheesemakers." And the Sermon on the Mount supposedly took place far north of Jerusalem, near the Sea of Galilee. Still...
Posted at April 3, 2007 04:52 PM | TrackBack
From Wikipedia.
The name Jesus Christ is actually a corruption of the original Cheesus Christ named after the Valley of the Cheese makers.
http://cheesuschrist.donotlookthisupwikipedia.org/
I imagine someone complaining about his OS, typing a comment at a discussion board, meaning to input,
"Jesus Christ [this is a] retarded operating system..."
when the whole thing crashes, not allowing him to type in "system", and not taking his input for words with fewer than five letters(hence his displeasure in the firs plac .)
But that's jus an assumptio ; and, it could be a femal .
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at April 3, 2007 05:54 PMor, mayb it was th keyboar . You never kno !
Posted by: Jonathan Versen at April 3, 2007 05:58 PMThe keys on this one stick all the time. (plus I don't know how to type and never have been good at spelling)
Posted by: Mike Meyer at April 3, 2007 06:15 PMJesus Christ retarded operating/All your base are belong to us/Jesus Christ retarded operating/It's a series of tubes not trucks - It may not mean anything, but it does have a certain lyrical appeal.
Posted by: EvilPoet at April 3, 2007 07:30 PMbut it does have a certain lyrical appeal
A certain evil lyrical appeal!
Posted by: Scruggs at April 3, 2007 08:45 PM
