--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "llundrub" <llundrub@> wrote: > > > > Oh God! This is what will happen when Maharishi dies. > > Indeed, it might. I fully admit to being taken in > for a few minutes, <Snip> > > Deep bow. :-) > <Snip>
Thanks Turq. My friend who forwarded it to me says he usually prefers a belly laugh, or at least a knee-slap, to a deep bow, but but he'll take what he can get. An indeed--he took all he could of my playing insipid (as distinct from the good ones!) Mother Divine songs at him at full volume until he finally came clean about the April Fool's joke. At first he tried to convince me he was operating from a secret draft of the MTC soon-to-be-released catalogue that had other products too, even showing me a beat-up and obviously (now that I think about it) mock up of the document. Sheesh, it read like the J freakin' Pederman catalogue. There were lots of other things there, but he decided to use the phone bit. For example, llundrub wouldn't have to worry about walking sideways to face east with the "BirkenStha" shoe, with a layer of Maharishi Vedic NanoTubes® built into the soles. The shoes not only conform to the shape of your foot but also automatically align to true east, shifting virtually instantaneously with every movement so no matter which way you are facing you are always on a platform facing east. Maharishi always said that TM makes us "more feet on the ground" and with the BirkenStha our feet can be on the ground and be properly established in correct orientation. No more walking sideways and getting a crick in the neck from turning your head to talk to the person beside you. That would be really great as my chiropractor bills have been astronomical for the past couple of years. I was ready to put my credit card down right away for that one and was extremely disappointed when he finally broke and confessed it was all a joke. By that point, I knew when I saw the "Stha-port-pottie®" for use on vastu development construction sites that the whole thing was just a sham. Damn! And the picture looked so cute with the kalash on top of the gold-painted outhouse---oops excuse me, Pees Palace. And finally---my friend insists that trin3ty is wrong, and he did not use a template from some old story about a Muslim phone. It must be a meme circulating in the collective consciousness. The originator of the other story could have even gotten it from him, since time, causality, and direction don't really exist and everyone knows that everything worthwhile originates in the Vedas. (Poor guy, he's actually still a bit in denial and has a hard time admitting it was a joke, insisting that "these things *could* be. Sigh.) And oh yeahthanks to card for the Finnish version of the April Fools prank line! Most evocative. Have a great Sunday, everyone. hermandan
