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Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
[SIZE=5][B]In an effort to meet the growing demand to keep up w/ the Doctoral Joneses who post w/ Th.D's .....
We have decided to bestow on any interested party a virtual Th. D if you post on this thread.
We hereby declare you ... Doctor .... [SIZE=3]*enter pomp and circumstance*
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OK, I'll accept the onery er ah um honorary degree.
When I went to the UPC church here in Cincinnati I always used to call Bro. Curts "Bishop" because I knew he didn't like the title. Maybe he had been in the PAW too long. He used to call me "Doc." He said he called me that as an abbreviation for "Doctor" which was used in the New Testament days for a teacher.
Good thing you didn't let us call ourselves D.D. You know the old timers preached against degrees and stuff like that. They found Scripture to condemn the DD degree in
Isaiah 56:10-12 which reads:
10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all
Dumb
Dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
So they were called
dumb
dogs and that stood for
DD.