BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?

Subject: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 10:53 AM

Apparently a lot of folks in the US are being directed here in the (mistaken) belief that they'll learn something about the election! Check it out anyway, it's a nice place -- I've been there often -- and very pleasantly situated in one of the prettiest parts of Lichfield

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: Penny S.
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 01:25 PM

Saw an item in the Guardian, making the point that Chad is particularly appropriate as he once stepped down from an appointment as bishop where there was a dispute!

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 02:09 PM

St Jude is the patron saint of hopeless cases, so I'd have thought he'd have been the right one for ths election.

At least I now know what to call the little round bits of paper that accumulate in my hole-puncher. If I ever need to refer to them. (And they keep getting stuck and giving me pieces of paper to put in loose leaf files which would appear to be pregnant.)

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: Penny S.
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 03:34 PM

My Christmas display has a starry sky of silver chads! I just didn't put two and two together there!

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: Banjer
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 06:16 AM

Penny S, even if you had put two and two together you would not necessarily come out with four, three maybe and possibly five. In any event I'm sure someone somewhere would have demanded a recount!!!

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: Kim C
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 10:19 AM

Why do they call it a "chad"? Why not a widget, or a doodlefink, or Bob or Tim?

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: Alice
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 10:26 AM

I heard that in Chad, Africa, they are counting Americans. (groan, bad joke)

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: MMario
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 10:38 AM

the urban myth that I have heard is that someone invented a holepunch that was someposed to eliminate the little bits left over. it was sold as the Chadless holepunch, suppossedly from the name of the inventor sombebody or other Chadless. Therefore, by irrefuteable logic, the pieces left over from other hole punchs must be "chad"

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 10:45 AM

Kim, see here, here and !

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 04:44 PM

Wwell those were enlightening links, especially the last one, which debunks the Mr Chadless theory.

Still, it's another potentially useful four-letter off. "Chad off!" Or "You're just a useless piece of chad!"

And maybe we'll see the new President of the USA referred to as President Chad. "President de facto Chad."

Subject: RE: BS: St Chad - Patron St of voters?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 04:45 PM

Well those were enlightening links, especially the last one, which debunks the Mr Chadless theory.

Still, it's another potentially useful four-letter off. "Chad off!" Or "You're just a useless piece of chad!"

And maybe we'll see the new President of the USA referred to as President Chad. "President de facto Chad."