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“Pearls and piggies comes to mind.”

Well, you could just take your snout away from the pearls, right?

“I wouldn’t have passed this out to him for all the tea in China.”

You couldn’t have passed this out to me for all tea in China.

“I hate it when someone asks a question or makes an inquiry that challenges me to do all the work on providing them an answer too obvious for words, while they sit back and stroke their beard.”

“...all the work...an answer too obvious for words...”

Well, that makes no sense. I guess that’s one way you can avoid doing the minimum you probably can’t do.

“while they sit back and stroke their beard.”

Clean shaven actually. Maybe you’re projecting?

“Vladie is enamored with barren Barron of the modern era, so let him do his own dang discovery.”

Already have. It was obvious to me that you would fail because your statement made it clear that you apparently knew little or nothing about Barron - who, no matter what you think of him - is clearly better read, and better educated, and better catechized than his critics in this thread. He also seems to be a better Christian. The point is was obvious you would fail from the beginning. I addressed the situation the same way I do anti-Catholics because your claims were as laughable. And, as expected, you fared as well as anti-Catholics do - complete failure.

“Incidentally, my volumes of Jurgens were laid wide open when Vlad challenged me to go find the goods. Still, I declined to lift a finger.”

Ooooooohhhh, Jurgens. Seriously, am I supposed to be impressed? I bought my first copy - that’s “first copy” - of Jurgens when I was in graduate school. I don’t even think I have a copy these days since they are now thoroughly superseded by online sources. I think I sold both copies last year. Once I saw Bercot back in 2005 I knew - no matter how imperfect it was since he’s a Protestant - that the days of Jurgens being indispensable were drawing to a close. I’m willing to bet you have no idea who Bercot is. Look it up. Now, if you said, “Incidentally, my volumes of Migne (Pat. Lat. or Pat. Grec.) were laid wide open...” I would have been impressed. But those too are a closed book to you aren’t they? Pun intended.

“Frankly, I don’t entertain much of anything, either said or written, by the modern rock stars and personalities running amok in the Church today, since the successful V2 blitz on the faith. These flame throwers are simply too dangerous and only the pointy head modernists can appreciate their prose anyway.”

So you regularly read St. Thomas Aquinas instead, correct? Or is that the purview of only “pointy head modernists” as well?

“These people are starving the flock, while giving them a fine show of fireworks, celebration and noise.”

http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3036.htm