Thursday, July 27, 2017

Finishing the sentence LXXX

Back to November 1992 for one of my unfinished sentences and the responses it received then:

According to a Reuters story, the recently published, updated Universal Catechism (i.e. book of religious instruction) includes such modern applications of the Ten Commandments as: "Thou shalt not evade taxes," "Thou shalt not fiddle with the company's books," "Thou shalt not engage in genetic manipulation," and "Thou shalt not drive while drunk."  One other modern application or "11th commandment" that should have been included in this new edition is...

..."Thou shalt look in all directions before thou shalt cross the street." (Paul I.)

..."Thou shalt not take the Lord's name in vain, unless of course, you are really, really pissed off." (Jeff B.)

..."Thou shalt not compromise thy integrity (i.e. sell out.)" (Laura W.)

..."Thou shalt not eat while talking on the air, especially really chewy stuff like Rolos that glue your mouth shut, so that the listeners get the urge to come down and throttle you." (Liz F.)

..."Thou shalt not claim thyself an atheist for purposes of proving thyself 'deep' to babes." (Michael M.)

..."Thou shalt not pretend to know more than you truly understand." (Karen B.)