[HPFGU-OTChatter] God bless us, everyone!

[Amanda Lewanski]

dai_evans wrote:

A message with a header that could be construed as offensive by people
who don't believe in God or who don't believe in an involved God or who
don't think God should bless *every*one or who were frightened by
Dickens as a child. We should all try to be more open-minded and careful
with our assumptions in the coming new year. Whoops, I mean unless
you're Jewish or Chinese and this isn't *your* new year at all, didn't
mean to offend anyone. Wow, sorry, I wasn't trying to exclude you if
you're Jewish or Chinese, just that you don't *have* to feel obligated
to ring in a new year not of your Valid Alternative Counting System, you
know, unless you like to party. But I don't mean to imply that Jewish or
Chinese people party more than anyone else, except maybe the
Irish....Whoops again, sorry, I'm part-Irish myself and I didn't mean to
offend any people of Irish descent, we all know the Poles drink more
than they do! But wow, now the non-drinking Irish will be offended
because I said they drink a lot and the drinking Irish will be offended
because I said the Poles do it better--at least the Poles won't be
offended because they can't read all that well, after all, and you know,
I really have to go now

--not Amanda, nope, not really, probably just someone assuming her
screen name to post nonsense. Honest. I'm psychic and guessed her
mother's cousin's middle name.

If it *were* really Amanda, she'd just have seconded Dai's sentiment.
Pity it's not her.