Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > At 08:00 AM Sunday 4/8/2007, William T Goodall wrote: >> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article1583398.ece >> >> 'Professor Richard Dawkins has described religious believers as >> "sucking on dummies" for comfort and said that giving children a >> religious education was comparable to "erecting a firewall in their >> minds" against scientific truth. >> Debating in London on the subject: "Are we better off without >> religion?", he said religion was like "a child with a dummy in its >> mouth. I do not think it a very dignified or respect-worthy posture >> for an adult to go around sucking a dummy for comfort." > > > And if you were reared in the US rather than the UK you probably got > a really strange mental image of "a child with a dummy in its mouth" > and "an adult [...] sucking a dummy for comfort." > > > -- Ronn! :D
It means a pacifier. (Which gets shortened to "passy" frequently.) Oh, and "nappy" is what you think of as a "diaper", if anyone needed to know *that*. But what about Dum-Dums? Wouldn't they be a nice thing to suck for comfort, if you liked sugar, anyway? :) ( http://www.dumdumpops.com/ for those who don't know what I'm talking about.) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
