I recall the comic books from the 1970s with the goofy advertisements. Along with the Sea Monkeys and X-Ray glasses was a mini-comicstrip advertising an exercise regimen associated with bodybuilder Charles Atlas (aka Angelo Siciliano). His regimen, built around "dynamic tension," I believe, was promoted to teenage boys. The short comic had a scrawny young …
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Something like 40 or 50 years ago I was in church and we had a guest preacher. He was in his 60s, possibly 70s. He gave an interesting little story--- probably not true, but perhaps it was. It was something like this... "When I was a young boy in church, our pastor was preaching, and …
Man of the Sun. That was his name--- ironic that he had not seen the sun in many months, and would never see it again. A cruel joke of a name. But there were many cruel jokes. People would listen to his every word with deep reverence. Now he was a laughingstock. His fabled strength …