Question about updates

[chris]

On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 14:47 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 27/08/11 , Basil Chupin wrote:
> > On 27/08/11 , Goh Lip wrote:
> >> Basil? I don't get it. I thought he's named after an Herb. :)
> >
> > DING! WRONG!
> >
> > I am named after Saint Basil the Great, and there is a cathedral
> > dedicated to me in the Kremlin, thank you very much. So there :-D .
> 
> Yeah, right, your holiness. But somehow, I'd think the hurricane would 
> not be so severe if it is named Ian rather than Irene.  :)
> 
> Regards - Goh Lip
> 

Gosh Goh, I thought he was named after an herbaceous border.
Oh sucks Wrong again.

And, if my memory is correct Saint Basil was first referred to in the
book "The way of the Pilgrim", a 12 century manuscript by a Russian
orthodox priest.
But then again I am probably wrong.  Comes from living upside
down............