Schneier vs. Brin

[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 07:37 PM Monday 3/10/2008, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>Alberto wrote:
>
> >
> > Ronn! asked:
> > >
> > > There's a religion that believes in wearing holey underwear?
> > >
> > I guess this was a rhetorical question, but the surprising answer
> > is a qualified "yes".
> >
> > Afro-brazilian religion Umbanda (which is a mix-up of European
> > Roman Catholicism, French philosopher Allan Kardec's Spiritism,
> > African Candomble and Tupi native religions) preach that people
> > should celebrate New Year with white clothes, but that the
> > colour of the underwear will bring what you want for the next year -
> > so, for example, you should wear yellow to get money, or red to
> > get a new love (or some other colour code).
>
>
>8^)
>
>But I think we were talking about holy underwear with holes in it (holey).
>
>As in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_garment
>
>but I see from the article that they don't really have holes in them
>anymore.



Not until they've been worn for awhile . . .


-- Ronn!  :)