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From: ingham@unm-cvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: A history lesson
Message-ID: <98@unm-cvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 13:24:07 EST
Article-I.D.: unm-cvax.98
Posted: Mon Dec 17 13:24:07 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:43:01 EST
Reply-To: ingham@unm-cvax.UUCP (Kenneth Ingham)
Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Back in the olden days, around 500 BC, when synagogues were built, they
had a special area along the sides where the men who received God's
calling would stand during the services.  This was so that if they heard
the calling, they could immediately rush out to do His bidding.  As time
went on and the members of the synagogue grew in number, they expanded
by making the seating areas wider, thereby reducing the special area
reserved for these men who recieved special instructions from God.  It
was when this happened that the complaint was raised about shrinking
prophet margins in the synagogue.
-- 
Kenneth Ingham, UNM Computing Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131, 505-277-8044

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