Now the "dwindling number of annointed" can't be verified in the stats published by the Society. We can never know how many are part of the "overlapper class" as Data Dog put it.
They can now say the number is dwindling regardless of how many "crazies" bite and sip each year.
So they have delivered their one-two punch:
1) They demoted the annointed last year by saying that they are just domestics in an attempt to reduce the appeal of partaking.
2) They have explained away the significance of the total number by introducing this "overlapper" class as the only partakers that matter as far as the last day's prophecy is concerned.
Makes you think that punch one didn't work. It will be interesting to see the memorial numbers for 2013. I guess we won't see those numbers until they release the 2014 yearbook.