I was excited as I flipped thru my copy of the 2010 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witlesses - as I wanted to get to the (dubious) statistics presented therein and, to my amazement, what did I find?
No zeroes.
None. You see, while the Glorious Grand Poohbahs and Masters of Time and Space (are the 144,000 Time Lords like Dr. Who?) honestly report negative publisher 'gains' for tiny islands ( that saw a decrease because 2 or 3 Gilead Grads got amoebic dysentery and had to leave to 'take care of their elderly relatives' or some other 'God, get me out of this hellhole' excuse) they now leave a blank space for Denmark, Czech Republic and so on. They are apparently embarassed to have publishers in Significant Nations acknowledge that they achieved no real increase despite whatever futile effort they put forth in the "ministry". ("Aw, the heck with this, brothers and sisters, we're not getting anywhere and the Yearbook says so").
I know there is a specific phobia for the number 13 ( triska decka phobia or something like that) but I never heard of a 'zero' phobia!
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