As our faithful readers know, this news source does not typically reprint messages we receive, nor do we tout the media recognition accorded us. (Frankly, if we stopped to acknowledge all the accolades heaped upon us, we would have precious little time to carry out our mission.) We make an exception to reprint the following thought-provoking email message we received last week from a European reader, as well as our response.THE MESSAGE:
Germany will forbid a POPE Satire.
GOD begins with G. like GERMAN
www.chartaland.de
OUR RESPONSE:
Dear www.chartaland.de:
Thank you for your very thought-provoking note.
A team of scholars well-versed in hieroglyphics has been studying your missive since it arrived to try to make sense out of it. They are also carefully examining the website you reference to assess whether you are, as we say in the United States of America, a crackpot.
To date, their work has not yielded conclusive results.
In any event, The Carbolic Smoke Ball thanks you for writing, whatever your purpose might have been.
Hon. Rufus Peckham
United States of America
