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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:25:55 CST
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- From: Torsten Wesley Adair <torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu>
- Subject: Re: Christmas Census Humor
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- On Mon, 21 Dec 1992 CHAPMAN@LUB001.LAMAR.EDU wrote:
- > ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- > Does anyone know the SuDoc number for the Roman census which brought
- > Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem and whether it's available electronically?
- > Bert Chapman
- > Lamar University
- > Beaumont, TX 77710
-
- The copy stored in Israel was burnt with the temple. The copy that
- was located in Rome was stolen in 1767, and is believed to have been
- acquired and cataloged by Thomas Jefferson. Someone assigned a SuDocs
- number to the title during the late 1800s, and sent it to the Documents
- Collection, where it was promptly misshelved. All copies of the shipping
- list were delivered three months later to Fort Kearney, Nebraska, where
- they were gratefully received by the freezing troops. The lone shelflist card
- mysteriously combusted, leaving a fine powdery soot in the bottom of the
- card tray. None of the surrounding cards were damaged. It is believed by
- some that the SuDocs classification scheme and the Item Selection List are
- just the beginning of the Almighty's anger over the desecration of this
- most holy of relics, and that the worst is yet to come.
-
- Waiting for the hippie with the stick,
-
- Torsten Adair torsten@cwis.unomaha.e
-