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- Subject: Re: Discworld Dynamics (was Re: Idiots w
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- From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:14:00 NZST
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- gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
-
- > In article <0R3SBF2G@cc.swarthmore.edu> nparkhu1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Nao Parkh
- >
- > > So, Terry, you're saying that there is a small cafe directly over the
- > > centre of the Disc?
- >
- > The Cafe at the Centre of the Earth :-)
- >
- > Nat
- > (in reference to Douglas Adams' 2nd book)
-
- And not Jules Verne?
-
- On the subject of competitions with the devil, ignoring Bill & Ted, the
- traditional ones are cards, (specifically poker), playing musical
- instruments and chess. One version I liked had a man sell his soul to
- the devil in return for a long life, wealth, beautiful wife, fabulous
- house, etc [actually everything is highly correlated with wealth, but
- that's a sociological point].
-
- Well, having a long life gives you a chance to contemplate the
- downside of spending eternity in hell, and so our hero is frantically
- reading the Bible when the devil walk in at 10 to midnight on the last
- night. "I'm here for your soul" says the devil. "Hang on, I've still
- got 10 minutes left". "Well it won't do you any good", snicker sthe
- devil. "Make it easy for both of us. Come now. I have other souls to
- collect". "Ok, says our hero, just give me until the candle runs out".
- [He is reading by candlelight. The devil looks at candle, sees it has
- much less than 10 minutes, and agrees. Our hero quick as a wink, blows
- out the candle and shoves it in the Bible [where, as we all know, the
- devil can't touch it]. Now the candle will never run out, and the devil
- can never claim the soul [agreement to alter the terms of the
- contract]. So devil roars, house wife money, etc all disappear, and man
- left alone with his soul, and pops on down to the village to have a
- chat with a priest.
-
-
- Well, *I* liked it.
-
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- Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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