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PRESS RELEASE: DISCORDIAN SOCIETY ACQUIRES LIMBO
For Immediate Release

DISCORDIAN SOCIETY ACQUIRES LIMBO

Monday 23 April, 2007

In a surprise move today, the Discordian Society, a small neo-religious group which worships the Ancient Greek Deity of Chaos called "Eris" (and known to the Ancient Romans as "Discordia"), have announced that they have acquired the non-corporeal realm known as "Limbo".

Limbo, the theological concept previous belonging to the Christian Catholic Church, was abandoned by the Church last Friday.

Although the Discordian Society is anarchic in structure, a self-proclaimed spokesperson for the movement who identified himself only as "His Wholiness the Rev.DrJon" made the following statement:

The Discordian Society, in line with previous acquisitions, welcomes the arrival of Limbo into the fold. We look forward to giving the place a clean sweep, a good polish and a nice redecoration. We'd like to thank fellow Pope* Benedict XVI for making this opportunity possible. We'd also like to offer the hand of friendship to those tenants of Limbo who chose to stay. We assure all who do wish to stay that they are welcome to continue to reside in the manner to which they are accustomed, however we will also be undertaking a rolling series of improvements over the coming eons, which should see a marked increase in liveability benchmarks.

There is no word yet as to what purposes, if any, the Discordian Society plan to put Limbo to, however opinion is divided amongst the Discordian faithful.

(* Discordians believe that every man, woman and child is a Pope.)


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[info]pope_guilty
2007-04-23 05:35 am UTC (link)
hehe, I made a comment in the Metafilter thread about this to much this effect.

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[info]drjon
2007-04-23 06:26 am UTC (link)
Most excellent!

I was going to post this when I first heard it on the news, but I've been way crazy, and so events have conspired to make the announcement be made on a much more auspicious day...

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[info]lokicarbis
2007-04-23 05:37 am UTC (link)
I am relieved to hear that the Limbonian people's traditional way of afterlife will not be disrupted.

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[info]tao_ov_dreaming
2007-04-23 06:12 am UTC (link)
More public statements on this:

"I am glad this takeover has occurred. There was concern as to where the souls of those armadilloes, who do not partake in hotdog buns before they die, go. If the RCC had shut down Limbo these souls would have become yet more statistics in the ever growing number of homeless on our streets." -Grandmaster Armadillo Curmudgeon of the Chao-Lin Temple

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[info]nmdrkangl
2007-04-23 02:50 pm UTC (link)
Perfect! I was looking for a new place to hold our Thursday night Limbo Contest and cookout!

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[info]tosk
2007-04-23 04:03 pm UTC (link)
Its good we've finally put this ownership thing to rest. As I mentioned earlier when the topic came up... any attempt by the Catholics to evict Eris and close Limbo would have had potentially disastrous consequences. I for one would not want he crashing at my place "till she gets back on her feet".
Of course, I wouldn't dare turn her away either.

;-)

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[info]drjon
2007-04-23 10:15 pm UTC (link)
And, of course, the Bull Goose will finally have the run of the place.

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[info]fayanora
2007-04-23 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Why do we need Limbo when we already have Macarena?

Well... actually, I guess Macarena is more like the mutant offspring of Limbo and Hell.

(BULLIES WILL FREEZE FOR 5000 YEARS IN MACARENA!)

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[info]ghymoreids_mum
2007-04-23 08:31 pm UTC (link)
*snerk*

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[info]tcpip
2007-04-24 01:44 am UTC (link)

You are most excellent sir..

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[info]discordia13
2007-04-24 04:44 am UTC (link)
I approve of this post.

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