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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

On 12/10/03 6:04 PM, "zman" <zman AT gibbon.kungfumonkey.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, David Minton wrote:
>>>> whoa...hold da phone.  fish on friday.
>>> I stopped going to Catholic school a long time ago, stopped that silly
>>> little rule then, haven't looked back since...
> 
>> You obviously didn't attend public school in New York City, at least when I
>> did in the seventies and early eighties. We all had got the chance to 
>> follow
>> the Pope's lead and eat fish[sticks] every Friday, in the cafeteria.
> 
> Actually I did, St. Anthony of Padua in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. When I
> left there in 77 I stopped the silly "fish on friday" rule. And I
> really doubt the Pope went by it either as there seems to be an inordinate
> amount of hypocrisy in organized religion. In some ways I'm really glad I
> didn't continue with parochial school through high school.

I was in public school in NYC, and am not Catholic, but was stuck with fish
sticks on Friday :-(

David