Stoltzfus and other Amish names (was Re: A Reiteration and Clarification of my Purpose)

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>BACH

>I lived for nearly 15 years of my life near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In

>that area of the country, one out of every two Amish guys that I met were

>named "Stoltzfus", and that was the only place where I ever heard that last

>name before, during, or since. (Perhaps it means "dumbshit" in German!) If

>this Jacob is actually an Amish guy, he shouldn't be allowed to get

>anywhere near a computer by virtue of his Amish religion. If he's just

>using this as his on-line "handle", it still tells me that he knows

>something about one of the most fundamentalist KJV brands of Xianity that

>there is.  In either case, he is showing himself to be an ignorant buffoon!

>I hope he will keep revealing himself for the real fundie that he is.

>Regards,

>Bones

>thebachs@fgi.net

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NANCY
Stoltzfus or Lapp. Abner or Jacob. A couple of Lancaster Amish men, both
named Abner Stoltzfus, if I recalled correctly, were recently convicted for
dealing crack. Seems they bought it from gang members from Philadelphia and
sold it to their compadres at Amish hoedowns. As Dave Barry would say, I am
not making this up.

I doubt that Jacob is Amish, though he might be of Amish stock, but it *is*
possible since young, unmarried Amish men are allowed a great many freedoms
that they must forego as adults. 

Many Amish men work in the construction trade and spend a lot of time among
the English. I have no idea if any of them are influenced to leave their
communities by their exposure to the English.

Nancy Todd
todds@pa.net

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