PGH Downtempo -- Good and Evil?

[Jeremy David]

On 3/20/06, Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Jeremy David <epistemology at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think the debate about religion will be over once we all realize
> > that "religion" is just an anagram for "groin lie."
> >
> > P.S. ...which is also an anagram for "oil reign", and "no girlie" I
> > think I've made my point clearly.
>
> What was your point?

One day, I was walking through the barren deserts of southern Texas. I
came upon a dilapidated shack decorated with shamrocks. I knocked on
the door, which was answered by an old man. "Hi. I'm Nigel," he said,
but it was clear that English was not his first language. He was
Irish, so he spoke a sort of half-Irish/half-English known as IRE
LINGO. I could tell from the stains on his hands and the aged oil
drills in his yard that Nigel was an old oil man. He motion towards
his gin still in the corner and asked, "You wants ye some?" I said,
"Sure!" and extended my arms greedily. After all, nothing hits the
spot when you've been trudging through the desert for two days like
some OILER GIN.

He then, with crazy Yoda eyes, shared with me the secret of true
desert enlightenment. He told me that you have to perform an ancient
ritual, of which he described to me the process. You have to stand
halfway in a river and think of a happy time while counting backwards
from 100. When you get to zero, you're enlightened. That very day we
walked down to the river to perform it. I stuck one LEG IN RIO and
thought about this ONE GIRL I knew years ago. I got stuck somewhere
around the mid forties though, due to desert exhaustion. He had to
carry me back to the house. Or did I carry him? Well, I don't remember
whether it was NIGEL OR I who did the carrying? But does it really
matter? I never did get enlightened. Oh well.