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Didja ever stop think that the "sj" in Max's screen name ("sjmaxq") might stand for "Society of Jesus"? Most Jesuits put that after their name but they do a lot of things backwards on Max's side of the Equator because they are upside down.
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Uh-oh. You're in for it now, Brother-Father. 
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Sorry, no such ingenuity. Even though I have often been accused of jesuitry.
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Huh, that reminds me... maybe you can explain something to me Father Steve...
In French, when you say to a person, "mon jésuite" it is akin to playfulling saying "you little scamp"
Do you know why that association might be?
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My knowledge of French dates from junior high school and its remnants could easily be written on a 3x5 card. I have not heard mon jésuite used this way but I have a Jesuit chum at Georgetown, I'll ask him, and, if he knows, I'll pass the information along to you.
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My knowledge of French dates from junior high school and its remnants could easily be written on a 3x5 card. I have not heard mon jésuite used this way but I have a Jesuit chum at Georgetown, I'll ask him, and, if he knows, I'll pass the information along to you.
If he knows, ban him, and if he doesn't, suspect!
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Mon jésuite at Georgetown had never heard of this usage ... or so he said.
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Hmm. I'll ask my Mom tomorrow morning why Jésuit came to mean mischievous. I'll let you know.
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Hmm. I'll ask my Mom tomorrow morning why Jésuit came to mean mischievous. I'll let you know.
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Given the history of the Black Robes in Canada, that don't seem a tough call! 
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Ah. Well, I got some explanation from my parents. The Jesuits were “not very nice” and were not above using violence to impose the rules of Catholicism on the people of Québec. During my Grandmother’s generation, the expression “mon Jésuite” came to be used as an exclamation, or oath, when scolding a mischievous youngster. This page has a good explanation as to why my parents would thing that the Jesuits were not very nice. Jesuits were not very nice FROM THE PAGE... The Jesuits were despised by most of the French in New France and they were resented by the Natives. The Jesuits considered the Natives nothing less than savages and, therefore, deserving of nothing less than subjugation. Although subjugation was considered deplorable by most, the Jesuits considered it a virtue - as long as it was the Roman Catholic Church which was doing the subjugating. The French of New France considered the Jesuits extremely wicked and dangerous men who should be driven out of the country. Eventually, all of Europe would come to feel the same way about the Jesuits and they would be driven from there, also.
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