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I used to teach English here in Catholic Bavaria. One of my students worked in a nearby diocese. She told me a story: Many priests here live in a parsonage (sp?) and have a housekeeper. These housekeepers sometimes get pregnant. The department in the diocese, where my student worked, was responsible for the financial support of the results of these pregnancies. As long as the mother kept quiet about the identity of the father, the support continued. If she ever publically revealed that the father was a priest, the support was discontinued.

Now I'm not indicting the Catholic Church, or religion in general, at all. After all, religions are made up of people, who aren't perfect. There are often reports in Thailand of monks involved in sex, money, gambling, alcohol, and drug scandals. Anything else would surprise me greatly.

I'm truly sorry about what happened to your friend and glad you got out unscathed. I was raised in a boring Methodist church and never heard anything of this nature, but I'm sure it exists in any denomination.

I was about to say exactly this. All Quiet... was amazing.

That fits the bill. I lived in Dallas during my reggae phase. Not long afterward I got to see Black Uhuru at the Paradiso in Amsterdam; unfortunately Sly and Robbie weren't with the band.

"Incredible Journey" from Disney was a film from 1963 featuring 2 dogs and a cat in this exact scenario. I remember watching that in the theater as a child.

I saw their writing desk at Expo 2000 in Hannover. It was pretty awe-inspiring.

Saving Grace
Her husband dies, leaving a mountain of debt. An expert gardner, she turns to growing weed to get out of debt. Craig Ferguson in an early role. Funny as hell and recommended.

But Up in Smoke has to be number one, if for only nostalgic reasons. We smoked so much weed at the midnight showings of that movie. Back when we were free...

While you are speaking, the other person is formulating their next point, or, at best, formulating a reply to "prove" you wrong. Communication, it seems, should be easy, but in reality, it's almost impossible.

Nothing, really. If anything agreeing with your last sentence. :dunno:

My wife loves to eat rabbit. Whenever she visits friends in Thuringia, she brings back a bag of frozen rabbit heads (Bavarians aren't much into that, so they're hard to find here). Anyway, we're into Easter; just finished hiding the eggs. Happy Easter!

I was a Quisp kid, Quake was an a-hole.

Super. What a wonderful time in music history.