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Patron Saint of the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

Quite a number of people have been writing with the news that the Catholic Church is considering naming a patron saint of the Internet. The strongest current contender is St. Isisdore, an 8th century Spanish saint, with is created with making one of the first databases - a 20 volume encyclopedia.

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  1. Top X Lines Uttered by the Internet Saint by RimRod · · Score: 5

    1) "May all your segmentation faults be benign"

    2) "That'll be 20 Hail Marys and 5 lines of assembly code"

    3) "Thou shall not covet thy cubicle neighbor's video card"

    4) "And God shall smite thee by sending a power surge through your CPU"

    5) "God is compassionate, my child...everyone is tempted by the Fruit of the Tree of Microsoft once or twice"

    6) "And Apple begat Macintosh, Macintosh begat the PowerMac, and PowerMac begat iMac..."

    7) "And on the Seventh Day, Torvald created Linux. And Torvald saw that it was good.

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    - ...and remember, you can't invade Brainania. It's not on the big map.