inanities

Three wholly unrelated inanities that caught my attention this morning:

1) A judge is in a Washington D.C. court as a plaintiff, having sued a dry cleaner for losing his pants. For how much is he suing them? $54 million. We mustn’t forget that these pants were really dear to him. While testifying to the court, the judge broke down and had to ask for a break. So sad. What could be dearer to a man’s heart than his trousers?

2) Biblical scholar Gerhard Delling on the apostle Paul: ‘Indeed, Paul says [in 1 Cor. 7:5] that the Holy Spirit cannot be in people during sexual intercourse’. This was news to me, but then, sometimes there are odd biblical passages and sometimes I don’t remember them. So I looked up 1 Cor. 7:5: ‘Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control’. Sometimes scholars amaze me.

3) In Canada, food can be labelled ‘Product of Canada’ if 51% of the production costs are Canadian. So, for example, a company can import mango juice concentrate, add water to it in Canada, and then sell it as Canadian mango juice.

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