Re: OFF TOPIC: Jedis, etc - was Top 10....

> Not true. This isn't a list for urban myths - if you're going to go
> off-topic, you could at least do it accurately. :-)
> http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=293

It would seem you have the definitive source.

However, I wasn't just repeating something I heard down the pub. I was actually quoting direct from the most recent issue of "The Week" a serious UK weekly news magazine. A google search seems to show that many others have also been hoodwinked

http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/02/week_2/13census.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_750289.html

Sigh, quality journalism that. I guess I should have dug a bit further before repeating it. Oh bother, I'm still off-topic, sorrrry...

-Dale

> Sikh - 336,000 people.
> Jewish - 267,000 people.
> Buddhist - 152,000 people.
>
> Jedi was classified under 'Other religion' along with Druidism, Satanism,
> Wicca, Pagan, Freethinker, etc, etc. The total for ALL these was only
> 179,000.
>
> Of course, Jedi only got as many 'votes' as it did because of a spoof
email
> which tried to convince people that it would make it into an 'official'
> religion. Which is, of course, complete twaddle!
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Moore
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dale_at_databee.com [mailto:Dale_at_databee.com]
> > Sent: 25 February 2003 08:14
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: Top 10 DBA Do's and Don'ts anyone - Here is my list,
> >
> >
> > > Perhaps we depend to much on the force to guide and protect
> > us at times...
> > > :-)
> >
> > Laugh you may, but in the last UK census (not a poll mind you
> > but the actual
> > national census) 400,000 people indicated their religion was
> > "Jedi". This
> > was more than put their religion as Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist.
> >
> > Of course its just a re-hash of Vitalisim, but.... (Oh dear, now I've
> > annoyed nearly half a million people and all of 'em on the
> > same tiny island
> > as me :-)
> >
> > -Dale
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