1:24 And lo, Mary and Joseph did have need of a donkey, as Mary was heavy with child and needed to get to Bethlehem in a hurry, but look and look as they did, they could find not a thing.

1:25 They found not a burro, nor mule, jenny, jack or dickey, and they did thus weep, as they were sad.

1:26 When little San Miguel did thus hear of this he did take pity upon the couple and with much haste, did let them borrow his burro, and Mary and Joseph did then venture forth to Bethlehem in much haste.

1:27 San Miguel, without said donkey, could no longer carry large bundles of foodstuffs to and fro, and thus did not make much hard currency that day and henseforth, and could no longer afford his breakfast sandwich.

 

And for this, we celebrate San Miguel day, the first Tuesday of November, and we will eat no breakfast sandwiches and gladly offer up our ass...err...donkey to anyone who is in need.

- from the Book of Seann

Some history: The above verses were rediscovered, miraculously, on the first Tuesday of November, 1998, by Harrison and Seann. Three years later, the fires of an age old debate were rekindled... 

gweepnet.weirdness #2123
From: harrison@ayup.limey.net (n. harrison ripps)
[1] Re: San Miguel Day!
Date: Tue Nov 07 12:50:22 EST 2000
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dawn  >>>what if i have an egg and cheese sammich for lunch?
seann >If you'll read your scriptures, you'll note that it's a BREAKFAST
seann >sandwich, not a LUNCH sandwich, so you should be fine.

From the Talmud:

"Rabbi Seann ben 4/5ths Israel says that because the breakfast
sandwich is, by name, a sandwich eaten at breakfast, that such a
sandwich could be consumed for lunch without sin. Rabbi Noach Aaron
ben Herschel Avram, however, insists that a sandwich is a breakfast
sandwich by content, as it contains items which are considered
breakfast foods by the Goyishe that eat this sort of Trafe. And so, to
eat a breakfast sandwich, Trafe or Kosher, at any point during Yom San
Miguel is a sinful act.

"In consideration of this older debate, Rabbi Salami ben Rye, of the
Seannischer theology, indicates the risk of defining breakfast as 'the
morning meal' and hence the risk of following the Seannischer
practices. Rabbi Milktoast ben Tablecracker observes that such is the
nature of the Seannischer Rabbim--that 'they become mired in the
paradox of Seannischer theology and then their heads explode.'"

Just thought you guys might be interested in the history of this
debate--it's an old one.

--Harrison
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