Dan Ceppa -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 ->> On 30 Apr 09  11:47:08, Ed Hulett got back to Dan Ceppa
 ->> Re: Know your con man

 DC>>> Oh, Moses didn't get a second copy after he smashed the first?  That
 DC>>> could only mean Joey Smith was deemed unworthy to get a second
 DC> chance.

 EH>>> The laws Moses brought down from Sinai were written by the hand of
 EH>>> God.

 DC>> Oh. so Joey wasn't worthy of a visit by the Big Guy, huh?

 EH>> Good grief. The plates had already been written. Joseph needed only to
 EH>> translate them, which he did through inspiration.

 DC> Yeah, he placed his sorry-assed face in his hat,

No, he did not.

 DC> just like he used to do when he pretended to find money.

The only instance of Joseph doing any such thing was when he did so to
describe Mr. Stowell's property from over 100 miles away. He accurately
described it down to the tree with a hand print painted on it.

 DC> You you,

Me me?

 DC> just like con he ran and got arrested and convicted for doing.

Huh?

Ed

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