IJMC - A Tough Act To Follow

So tonight, I won't even try. Just read on and enjoy if you do.      -dave





 
 The Book of Creation
 
 Chapter 1
 
 1    In the beginning God created Dates.
 
 2    And the date was Monday, July 4, 4004 BC.
 
 3    And God said, let there be light; and there was light. And when
 there was Light, God saw the Date, that it was Monday, and he got down
 to work; for verily, he had a Big Job to do.
 
 4    And God made pottery shards and Silurian mollusks and pre-Cambrian
 limestone strata; and flints and Jurassic Mastodon tusks and Picanthopus
 erectus skulls and Cretaceous placentals made he; and those cave
 paintings at Lasceaux. And that was that, for the first Work Day.
 
 5    And God saw that he had made many wondrous things, but that he had
 not wherein to put it all. And God said, Let the heavens be divided from
 the earth; and let us bury all of these Things which we have made in the
 earth; but not too deep.
 
 6    And God buried all the Things which he had made, and that was that.
 
 7    And the morning and the evening and the overtime were Tuesday.
 
 8    And God said, Let there be water; and let the dry land appear; and
 that was that.
 
 9    And God called the dry land Real Estate; and the water called he the
 Sea. And in the land and beneath it put he crude oil, grades one through
 six; and natural gas put he thereunder, and prehistoric carboniferous
 forests yielding anthracite and other ligneous matter; and all these
 called he Resources; and he made them Abundant.
 
 10   And likewise all that was in the sea, even unto two hundred miles
 from the dry land, called he resources; all that was therein, like
 manganese nodules, for instance.
 
 11   And the morning unto the evening had been a long day; which he
 called Wednesday.
 
 12   And God said, Let the earth bring forth abundantly every moving
 creature I can think of, with or without backbones, with or without wings
 or feet, or fins or claws, vestigial limbs and all, right now; and let
 each one be of a separate species. For lo, I can make whatsoever I like,
 whensoever I like.
 
 13   And the earth brought forth abundantly all creatures, great and
 small, with and without backbones, with and without wings and feet and
 fins and claws, vestigial limbs and all, from bugs to brontosauruses.
 
 14   But God blessed them all, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and
 Evolve Not.
 
 15   And God looked upon the species he hath made, and saw that the earth
 was exceedingly crowded, and he said unto them, Let each species compete
 for what it needed; for Healthy Competition is My Law. And the species
 competeth amongst themselves, the cattle and the creeping things; and
 some madeth it and some didn't; and the dogs ate the dinosaurs and God
 was pleased.
 
 16   And God took the bones from the dinosaurs, and caused them to appear
 mighty old; and cast he them about the land and the sea. And he took
 every tiny creature that had not madeth it, and caused them to become
 fossils; and cast he them about likewise.
 
 17   And just to put matters beyond the valley of the shadow of a doubt
 God created carbon dating. And this is the origin of species.
 
 18   And in the Evening of the day which was Thursday, God saw that he
 had put in another good day's work.
 
 19   And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness,
 which is tall and well-formed and pale of hue: and let us also make
 monkeys, which resembleth us not in any wise, but are short and
 ill-formed and hairy. And God added, Let man have dominion over the
 monkeys and the fowl of the air and every species, endangered or
 otherwise.
 
 20   So God created Man in His own image; tall and well-formed and pale
 of hue created He him, and nothing at all like the monkeys.
 
 21   And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which
 is upon the face of the earth. But ye shalt not smoketh it, lest it
 giveth you ideas.
 
 22   And to every beast of the earth and every fowl of the air I have
 given also every green herb, and to them it shall be for meat. But they
 shall be for you. And the Lord God your Host suggesteth that the flesh of
 cattle goeth well with that of the fin and the claw; thus shall Surf be
 wedded unto Turf.
 
 23   And God saw everything he had made, and he saw that it was very
 good; and God said, It just goes to show Me what the private sector can
 accomplish. With a lot of fool regulations this could have taken billions
 of years.
 
 24   And the evening of the fifth day, which had been the roughest day
 yet, God said, Thank me it's Friday. And God made the weekend.
 

    Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain without the
 written consent of the Lord thy God. The name "the Lord thy God" the sole
 property of the Lord thy God. Any use of the name of the Lord thy God
 without the express written consent of the Lord thy God is unauthorised
 and illegal and shall be punished by the Lord thy God.