Schneier vs. Brin

Warren Ockrassa warren at nightwares.com
Wed Mar 12 18:12:37 PDT 2008


On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:52 PM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Doug Pensinger <brighto at zo.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Is this the origin of the phrase "God's trousers," used often by (I'm
> pretty sure) Sean Connery in the movie (I think), _The Man Who Would
> Be King_?

Mormonism came into existence in 1839, so if the movie was set before  
that time period, no.

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