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Thread #80020   Message #1455916
Posted By: LadyJean
09-Apr-05 - 12:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pubic information service
Subject: RE: BS: Pubic information service
Pubic wasn't a missprint. I don't know why I should be surprised to see this.
Many years ago, the little paper I was writing for was taken over by a British firm. I was told to write up Christenings.
Which was fine for the Catholics and Episcopalians in my area, but not so good for the Swedenborgians, and then there was the very large Jewish population.
I finally asked my airhead editor if she wanted me to do brises too. (A bris being the Jewish circumcision rite.) She said, brightly, "Well, I guess they had baptism back in Bible times too."
I did not do brises.