Friend: Godzilla!
Me: Thank you!
*pause*
Me: Wait… did you just say—
Friend: It’s nondenominational.
The practice of saying “God bless you” when someone sneezes dates goes back centuries, apparently due to the folk belief that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed, or that sneezing otherwise opened the body to invasion by the Devil or evil spirits.
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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.
Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!
Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc
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