Re: (OT) What is a "Liberal"?

Carl A. wrote:
"Lone Haranguer" <linusz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6adrj3F36h7sgU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
bill horne wrote:
Lon VanOstran wrote:
Max wrote:


At the expense of demonstrating my naiveté, I have to ask, what's a "Mackerel Snapper"?
It's a bigoted way of referring to Catholics.
It is derived from the past when CAtholics didn't eat meat on Friday.
Even today, there are still fish dinner specials all over America on Friday evenings. A tradition that lives on.

Lon
I didn't become an agnostic by intent or design, but if I had, one of the reasons would probably have been so that I could eat whatever the hell I wanted whenever the hell I wanted it.

Don't ask me how they managed it but the mess hall at Snelling AF Station in Mpls used to feature lobster every Friday. I normally had a paper bag lunch but it's easy to get addicted to lobster. Especially when it costs 45 cents.
LZ

Seeing how St. Peter was a fisherman, I'm not surprised that his lobbyists got the Friday rule implemented. At least he wasn't a vegetable farmer...

Now that doctors tell us that fish is healthier than meat, I expect being fed fish on Fridays may give me an extra 4 or 5 years. :)

Maybe that explains my steady 168 cholesterol level?
LZ
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