VERSION|0.5.1|SUBJECT|Bewilderingly Reverend Lord Professor Bishop Baron Reverend Lord Richard Harries, Baron Pentregarth, Gresham Professor of Divinity, Baron, Bishop, Professor, Lord...  |CONTENT|[b]Rating[/b] 4 out of 5 (Highly platitudinous)

[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap130531.html][img=images/2013/05/pic130531.jpg popup=false float=right][/url]Happy [url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/29/diamond-jubilee-everest-ascent]60th anniversary[/url] of someone first reaching the summit of Mount Everest everyone! Yes, it's now ten years since the 50th anniversary and an amazing twenty years since the 40th anniversary. I can still recall the 30th anniversary, which came a mere ten years after the 20th, and who can forget the 10th anniversary, the first of many decades apart anniversaries to come?

But why? Why do people still do it? Why do people still commemorate the something'th anniversary of someone getting to the top of a large, pointy piece of rock? On one day last year alone, over 200 people were found to be celebrating the anniversary of someone reaching the summit of Mount Everest. The answer, "Because it's the anniversary," is no answer at all. There seems to be something innate in human beings to commemorate the anniversary of someone else doing something on a mountain. 

As I drive through Wales, it is a wonder to see it all, as far as the eye can see, people celebrating the most recent decade's anniversary of someone climbing Mount Everest.

People used to think that their Invisible Magic Friends lived up on the top of mountains. Isn't it amazing what silly things people used to believe? Everyone knows that this only happened once, when Moses was forced to climb Mount Sinai because the one, true Invisible Magic Friend had temporarily taken up residence there. 

But not everyone can celebrate the anniversary of Mount Everest. Some poor, unfortunate people have lives to lead. Some have dull, tedious, soul destroying jobs. Others don't. Still others face challenges, not through choice, but imposed upon them. [url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173663]As the poet said,[/url]

"There was a young man who went nutty,
He craved for a smoked bacon butty,
Its absence he feared,
For it never appeared,
I can't think of an end that is smutty."

Then there is that famous Psalm from the Big Book of Magic Stuff,

"I have celebrated the recent decade's anniversary of someone climbing a mountain, Oh LORD. 
Therefore you're just great, fantastic, super!"

There was an [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marghanita_Laski]atheist once[/url] who appreciated some of the more poetic, inspirational bits of the Big Book of Magic Stuff. Yes, I know, I was pretty surprised too. You wouldn't think it possible for an atheist to appreciate some of the more poetic, inspirational bits of the Big Book of Magic Stuff. You learn something every day here on TFTD.

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