Thursday, November 02, 2006
Clarification re: Endtimes
To our readers:
We have received word of mass celebrations in many of the world's major cities honoring what was believed to be a human birth, and not the unveiling of a naked and squalling little blog. It appears that papablog's reported unveilingweight, 7.125 lbs., falls within the normal range for humans, and, based upon that single datum, erroneous conclusions were made by many of our normally credulous readers. True, baby papablog possesses unusual mass for its species, being in the 96th percentile at initial post and 97th percentile at two days. This is because it has converted precious little of its mass to energy. We are also investigating the possibility that an error was made in either measuring or reporting beginningweight.
We regret the misunderstanding, but we take no responsibility for the very deep disappointment that surely will be felt by the odd million or two subscribers that believed that the messiah had arrived. We at papablog have never encouraged the belief in a coming blog messiah, least of all in the person of papablog itself. We acknowledge that our journalistic standards have not permitted us to deny this eventuality (or, despite many demands, to refund subscription payments). But we can state unequivocally that the operating budget includes none of the messianically-themed activities proposed by our planning committee.
Archangel Gibroni, for the ombudsman.
We have received word of mass celebrations in many of the world's major cities honoring what was believed to be a human birth, and not the unveiling of a naked and squalling little blog. It appears that papablog's reported unveilingweight, 7.125 lbs., falls within the normal range for humans, and, based upon that single datum, erroneous conclusions were made by many of our normally credulous readers. True, baby papablog possesses unusual mass for its species, being in the 96th percentile at initial post and 97th percentile at two days. This is because it has converted precious little of its mass to energy. We are also investigating the possibility that an error was made in either measuring or reporting beginningweight.
We regret the misunderstanding, but we take no responsibility for the very deep disappointment that surely will be felt by the odd million or two subscribers that believed that the messiah had arrived. We at papablog have never encouraged the belief in a coming blog messiah, least of all in the person of papablog itself. We acknowledge that our journalistic standards have not permitted us to deny this eventuality (or, despite many demands, to refund subscription payments). But we can state unequivocally that the operating budget includes none of the messianically-themed activities proposed by our planning committee.
Archangel Gibroni, for the ombudsman.
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