What was it that the late and great Dave Allen used to say at the end of his shows? - "and may your God go with you"!
Guess it works globally :)
Cheers - John
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:05:10 +0100
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> Subject: Re: Gluck auf!
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> In the late 1950s, when I worked at the Mosaboni copper mine in Bihar, India,
> I spent the last year of my time there in the bottom section of the mine, driving
> development roads and sinking inclined shafts for future production. Access to the
> section was via cages in the 2000 foot deep vertical Circular Shaft. As we crowded
> into the cage at surface at the start of the shift, the gates were closed and the cage
> lifted off the pegs before we started our descent, a Moslem pipefitter (all the pipefitters
> were Moslems) would invariably start chanting out loud a whole sequence of prayers
> for as long as we could see daylight. The rest of us in the cage, of whatever religion
> (the majority were Hindus) would keep a tolerant silence while he did so, on the
> assumption that, if Allah protected him, then the rest of us in the cage should at
> least reach the bottom safely.
> Tony Brewis
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