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# Insomuch as thou includest this time-table, it shall always work out to the prophecy being fulfilled within three weeks of its being read on-screen (or at least no later than the season finale).
# The location for the fulfilling of thy prophecy shall invariably be within four score furlongs<ref>ten miles</ref> of the protagonist's house. Thus endeth the law.
# And behold, it came to pass that the writers did name this law "[[Hollywood Apocrypha]]," and did use it to generate diverse sacred texts and fake scriptures.
# And they did look upon their labors, and see that they were good. Well, no, not really good. But they did look upon their labors and see that they were not so horrible that people stopped watching their shows.
# And they did go shopping.
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{{quote|Then there rose up in Western a new Vice-President who knew not Zim. And there was strife and discord, anger and frustration, between them for the Golden Guides were not being published or revised in their appointed seasons. And it came to pass that Zim and Western covenanted a new covenant, calling it a Settlement Agreement. But there was no peace in the land. Verily, they came with their counselors of law into the district court for judgment and sued there upon their covenants.}}
* [[The Book of Mormon (literature)|The Book of Mormon]] is near-universally agreed to have errors and phrasing consistant with this trope indicative of a man of Joseph Smith's education emulating the King James Bible's style. Whether this is an indicative and an artifact of him ''writing'' it whole-cloth or of him ''translating'' something given from on high to the best of his ability is largely a matter of faith.
** Pretty much ''any'' religious text of any religion translated into English will have numerous translations going out of their way to pretentiously imitate the King James Version's antiquated English for no reason whatsoever--evenwhatsoever—even if the translation is from, say, the 1970's. The Koran in particular gets it bad.
 
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