NP: All Agog

[John Bailey]

Really? We have a local pair of large bell-ringing automata (early
20th century) in a public arcade who've long been known as Gog and
Magog. Never saw them as agents of the apocalypse. Crap.

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Michael
Bailey<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Henry wrote:
>>
>> "Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac
>> in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's
>> satanic agents of the Apocalypse."
>>
>
> first glance, I misread that as "satiric agents of the Apocalypse"
> - I kind of like the misreading better, not just because how seriously
> can you take entities with names like Gog and Magog, but
> also maybe elements in OBA's fiction lead us to believe he too
> might be a satiric agent of the Apocalypse (wasn't somebody posting
> about doing a thesis on something like that recently?)
>
>
> --
> "My God, I am fully in favor of a little leeway or the damnable jig is
> up! " - Hapworth Glass
>