BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARF.
We’re drunk.
Also, we just finished watching the Devils/Kings game tonight. And because we always do our best writing when we’re drunk, let’s put pen to paper to assess the aftermath of this latest colossal suck-fest from our beloved team.
First of all, the entire team, from those weird little rookies all the way up to Lou, is fired. We’re not even sure we’re going to let them pack up their belongings. We might just have security show them out. We hate them all. And we’re drunk.
Second, have we vomited profusely yet? Yes? Well, we’re going to again. This game sucked. As did the game before it, and the game before it, and the game before it, and on and on and on. It’s almost as if the Devils like making us sick. Which, well, we guess good for them, because they’re accomplishing it regularly.
Third, even though it’s still January, thanks to the Olympic break we’re actually at the point in the schedule where the team has its annual swoon, so we shouldn’t be surprised that they’re sucking so bad. So it has always been, and so it shall always be.
BUT! Have you felt, Gentle Reader, the same way we have this month, that the days seem a lot longer than they did at this time last year? That the sunlight has been a lot brighter? This has been the March-iest January we can ever remember. There was no way the sun was still up as late at this time last year as it has been this year. It’s still light out after work! And during the day, the sunshine seems so warm and cheerful! Schnookie’s boss is traveling around the world this week, and remarked that he expected it to be Spring when he got back, based on how the weather’s looked this month, so we know we’re not alone in feeling this way. So maybe — just maybe — the Devils are similarly afflicted. Because this doesn’t look like the regularly-scheduled beginning of the annual swoon. No, the Devils are, right now, playing March hockey. No, let’s be more accurate — they’re playing April hockey. They’re playing like they, too, think it’s spring. (And maybe that they think they’re in a best-of-seven series against the Rangers.) They’re doing that top-notch “rip out your still-beating heart and drop it in your lap so you get to watch yourself bleed out” brand of hockey that we know and love so well from the last few playoff years. But maybe — just maybe — this is a good thing.
How could “rip out your still-beating heart and drop it in your lap so you get to watch yourself bleed out” hockey be a good thing? Well, because, despite all outward appearances, it’s still January. Or, if you’re reading this tomorrow, just barely February. What if the Devils are going to play out their crappy playoff hockey this month, then find themselves playing October hockey after the Olympic break, and then be in full November/December powerhouse mode again for the postseason? Maybe this is all worth it?
Nah, probably not. But we never claimed to be sober.
Those bleep bleep bleeping Devils. They can go bleep themselves. They are a bunch of bleeping sons of bleeps. I can only bleeping hope that those bleepers are just bleeping getting this bleeping bleep out their bleeping system now instead of bleeping April.
*reads post* Oh, so we are on the same page then. But at least you girls are drunk, give me a minute while I catch up.
Oh, so we are on the same page then. But at least you girls are drunk, give me a minute while I catch up.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Remember, Frisby — soldering irons and alcohol don’t mix!
Sure they do, you have to wash your puncture wounds with something.
At times like these, I don’t like to wash the puncture wounds. I prefer for them to become festering sores, because I need to have SOMETHING in my life that’s better than the Devils.
I want to join you in drunkenliness, but the little baaaaayyybeeee Jeeeeesus says no.
Silver lining: No team’s given up less goals this year!
I want to join you in drunkenliness, but the little baaaaayyybeeee Jeeeeesus says no.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: This is why it’s important to build up a well-stocked liquor cabinet. We’re never caught by surprise on the sabbath. :P
Silver lining: No team’s given up less goals this year!
Hey! That totally doesn’t make me feel better! :D
No team’s given up less goals this year!
Well, in that case….
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: This is why it’s important to build up a well-stocked liquor cabinet. We’re never caught by surprise on the sabbath. :P
Two buses it takes me to get to the supermarket. I haven’t the back-strength, nor the money to keep a liquor cabinet stocked.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!!!!!
….can someone get me a towel please?
The first two sentences of TG’s latest post pretty much sum it up.
I haven’t the back-strength, nor the money to keep a liquor cabinet stocked.
Hm. I can see where that would be a problem. I recommend getting a Boomer. Boomer’s great for keeping us in booze. :P
….can someone get me a towel please?
:^:::::::::::::::::: Yeah, sorry. It’s getting pretty messy in here.
Yeah, sorry. It’s getting pretty messy in here.
It’s just like the scene from Stand By Me!
Wow. I was just reading the last thread and had to look up this about the Blekboro Blaptist Blhurch picketing at the AAC. I would post a link to their site for their picketing schedule but their web address is a little too offensive for me to type here. Apparently they are some radical group from Kansas of all places who gained notoriety by picketing veterans’ funerals because they think the war in Iraq is God punishing America for it’s support of homosexuality. Wow. Again. Even the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t that bad. They spent today picketing the Blotter’s Blouse, The Blellowship Bhurch and the Catholic cathedral downtown before moving on to the AAC. The first two are mega churches. We have a lot of friends who go to Blellowship so should be interesting to hear how that went, today.
Never ceases to amaze me what people do in the name of Christianity. And just so you know, that isn’t even close to mainstream Blaptists. So please don’t judge us by these lunies. Hub and I are life long Blaptists but belong to a much more liberal branch. Thank God.
Sorry, to write the rant but these kind of people make me crazy.
Um, Dion Phaneuf is a Leaf. That’s gonna mess up my roster, huh?
Don’t worry Myra, nobody judges Christians in general on the old WBC. They’re insane on everyone’s scale. Though they have found a cunning way to make a lot of money out of injury lawsuits. They anger the everloving crap out of grieving war widows, get the everloving crap kicked out of themselves, and then take piles of money because “they were just doing their free speech thing”. They’re also banned from going to Canada and the UK, which I think is a shame, because the British public would batter them senseless, and then they’d be arrested for Incitement of Religious Hatred.
Um, Dion Phaneuf is a Leaf. That’s gonna mess up my roster, huh?
We might need final word from our Commish, but it’s usually been understood that if Player X is on your roster when the cross-conference trade happens, you can hang onto him. If he’s not, then regular rules apply.
This whole Rangers trying to trade Kotalik to Calgary thing is hilarious. Who gives Kotalik a no movement clause and why is Calgary on the list of teams that he doesn’t want to go to?
Thanks Tim. I kept thinking that their rhetoric seemed creepily familiar to me. Then it hit me, it was the same rambling venom of hatred that I received back in the 80′s from a member of the Blay Blay Blay when I rejected his application for insurance. Nothing like getting a 6 page threatening letter from a nut case to make your day. Also, interesting that they are now able to parade as a church.
And on a much lighter note. How about our fabulous Stars and Devils……Oh, wait. Never mind.
Can we borrrow Langer back for a while to do some coach killing for us?
Myra, don’t apologize for your rant! And OF COURSE no one here would judge you! I mean, you would never picket hockey! :D
it’s usually been understood that if Player X is on your roster when the cross-conference trade happens, you can hang onto him.
Yeah, sorry mcguggs. You can’t get rid of Phaneuf that easily. :P
And good morning, everyone! I hoped a good night’s rest and the dawn of a new month would make me feel better after last night, but I was wrong! Heh.
I mean, you would never picket hockey! :D
Of course not! I fully understand that hockey is a God given gift. (Except on nights like last night. Sigh.)
Come to think of it, maybe I should start picketing the Stars, if they don’t start playing better.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Yeah, as soon as I suggested you wouldn’t picket hockey, I was like, “Heeeey. Maybe those crazy people are on to something!”
Oh, and this Kotalik trade situation is a hoot. Remember back when the Flames acquired Jokinen, and we were all supposed to be swooning at their awesomeness and engraving the Cup for them? Ah, good times. :P
Of course not! I fully understand that hockey is a God given gift. (Except on nights like last night. Sigh.)
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I’d agree but it’s just so cold! And played in Florida. I mean, come on. :D
Good morning, everyone! I really can’t wrap my head around these deals. Unless… I know! The NHL is doing was the IPB Leagues did last year! Everyone was encouraged to make deals to get rid of the people they didn’t like, regardless of whether the deals made sense! Nice!
I sooo do not understand NHL trades. NONE of them ever make sense to me and very few of them seem to actually work out. But I guess if you are an NHL GM, hope springs eternal. Or they are all just insane.
But I guess if you are an NHL GM, hope springs eternal. Or they are all just insane.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I think Sutter’s just given up. It sounds like he’s standing out at the end of his driveway offering any and all Flames players for $.25 a piece.
Or they are all just insane.
I thought that was a requirement to be allowed to be a GM? Seriously, they’re all mad in some way.
I think Sutter’s just given up. It sounds like he’s standing out at the end of his driveway offering any and all Flames players for $.25 a piece.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: For some of those guys, that’d STILL be a bad deal!
They do appear to be having a fire sale.
(Did you see what I did there. Yeah. I’m that bad.)
You’re very punny, Myra :)
I think Sutter’s just given up. It sounds like he’s standing out at the end of his driveway offering any and all Flames players for $.25 a piece.
I’d take Cory Sarich for that price if he came with a brownie and a glass of milk.
They do appear to be having a fire sale.
(Did you see what I did there. Yeah. I’m that bad.)
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: For a Monday morning, I’m rating that as not half bad. :P
You’re very punny, Myra :)
Thank you, Mags. What can I say, it’s before 9:30 on a Monday morning. It’s going to be a long day.
Aw. Thanks, Schnookie.
What can I say, it’s before 9:30 on a Monday morning. It’s going to be a long day.
I had lunch at 11 today, thinking it must be at least 1. I had no way to check either, my watch was dead and I’d left my phone and iPod in my locker at the library. It’s been a very, very long day.
They do appear to be having a fire sale.
(Did you see what I did there. Yeah. I’m that bad.)
HAHAHAHAHAHA! I bet Sutter’s never heard that one before!
Morning Everyone!
Myra, we’re Baptists too, so I can vouch for the whole we’re not crazy thing. Cause I’m an excellent example…
And thanks for the fantasy hockey help. It would be a shame to get rid of Phaneuf because I love saying “Fire bad!” in my Frankenstein voice whenever I see him on my roster. I also love that he was/is a Flame AND a Fire Clown. And I did laugh for about 25 minutes when I pictured the trade in Sutter’s office:
FrankenPhaneuf: “Fire Bad!”
Sutter: “I gave you Elisha Cuthbert, and you’re still not happy?!”
FrankenPhaneuf: “And what of a soul? Do I have one? Or did you leave that part out?”
Sutter: “How about you go die in the North Pole… er, I mean, how about the Leafs?”
FrankenPhaneuf: “I will have revenge!!”
and scene.
I’ve now got a mental image of Gene Wilder behind the Flames bench.
I’ve now got a mental image of Gene Wilder behind the Flames bench.
Heh. Me too. And Phaneuf singing “Puttin’ on the Ritz”.
I don’t know, I’m not sure FrankenPhaneuf could even manage that. But I would love to see Gene Wilder behind the bench. I can just imagine the facial expressions.
And mcguff, I’m glad to see I have a fellow renegade Baptist here.
Gene Wilder lives in my hometown! I know a girl who flipped him off once while volunteering at the town playhouse. Then she ended up on America’s Next Top Model.
Then she ended up on America’s Next Top Model.
Oooh, which girl was she? (I love ANTM. :D)
(And yes, I’m not at all ashamed that the part I took out of your Gene Wilder story is the ANTM part. I’m nothing if not highbrow.)
I would love to see Gene Wilder behind the bench.
I know I’m crossing over movies, but if his assistant coaches were Oompa Loompas, that would be awesome.
I know a girl who flipped him off once while volunteering at the town playhouse. Then she ended up on America’s Next Top Model.
That just seems like a natural transgression.
I know I’m crossing over movies, but if his assistant coaches were Oompa Loompas, that would be awesome.
Oooh, and if the GM was Richard Pryor! Hilarity would ensue.
I’ve now got a mental image of Gene Wilder behind the Flames bench.
At this point, I’ll take Gene Wilder behind the Devils’ bench. Unfortunately, Clevon Little has died, so we can’t have him as an assistant coach. However, can we have Mel Brooks as the GM – or the goalie coach, just for a few days? He can tell Marty he’s NOT playing. That would be interesting.
I’m glad you guys were drunk. I have gastritis and I’m currently not allowed to drink until I have finished taking the meds and it has gone away. My doctor can’t figure out how I got it but I’m convinced the Devils’ gave it to me. They’ve been that bad.
I think Sutter’s just given up. It sounds like he’s standing out at the end of his driveway offering any and all Flames players for $.25 a piece.
Well, if GM Sutter wanted to have some fun with Coach Sutter, he could go tell him they had just acquired the player he knew was going to save their season, just as soon as he was recovered from that pesky concussion, of course, Patrik Elias.
Someone would have to film Brent’s reaction.
know a girl who flipped him off once while volunteering at the town playhouse. Then she ended up on America’s Next Top Model.
AWESOME! Who was it? I bet it was… Oh, who am I kidding? I can’t remember any of their names!
John Lithgow used to do a lot of work with out local Tony-award-winning theater. One of my high school classmates volunteered at a gala he was emceeing. She ended up next to him at the coat-check so she found enough courage to say, “Buckaroo Bonzai is the greatest movie ever.” He looked at her really seriously, put a hand on her shoulder and said, “You are one of the chosen ones.” And then walked away.
He looked at her really seriously, put a hand on her shoulder and said, “You are one of the chosen ones.” And then walked away.
That is awesome. I love John Lithgow.
Oooh, which girl was she? (I love ANTM. :D)
It was Victoria, from season 9. The Yale medieval history major who got in as a joke and got kicked out because Twiggy got paranoid and thought she was violent.
Hey, I remember her! She was the one who said she’d rather be at the library than putting on make-up (or something like that). I liked her, but she should know that the judges only accept smart girls so that they can use the 2nd-4th rounds of elimination to smack them down for being too smart. Man, I love that show. I wonder when the new season starts…
She only went through with appearing on the show because it was a free vacation, so I don’t think she really cared.
I’ve often pictured Phaneuf singing Puttin’ on the Ritz already. :P
And that is the coolest story about John Lithgow. I love that guy. And Buckaroo Bonzai. But not as much as 3rd Rock from the Sun.
You guys, I had the most exhausting, stupid day today. Just in case you were wondering whether any of your days were the most exhausting and stupid, they weren’t. Mine was.
And that’s my story.
Now I’m ready for some hockey!
Me, too!
Is the Buffalo game on Versus?
Yeah, it is. But the Ducks game isn’t! And neither is the trannies one later!
Hey! I have a link that is working so far. Cross your fingers that it works tomorrow when the Stars are on there.
Woops. I should have said Blersus earlier. Now they’ll find me out!
Maybe Blersus and DirecTV will reach an agreement before tomorrow? :P
That’s the only way I’ll get away with it. :P
Dude. I think the Ducks game is not being televised!
Wait, there’s no Getzi for me today? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
I was looking forward to watching Getzi ALL DAY. Stupid non-televised games. :(
Hello, IPB! Did I mention that I got a Devils desktop calendar for Christmas? Today’s Devils fact:
In 1983-84, New Jersey Devils goaltender Glenn “Chico” Resch received one first-place vote in balloting for the Vezina Trophy, given to the NHL’s most outstanding goaltender. Resch posted a 9-31-3 record in 51 regular season games.
Awesome!
I have no religious affiliation now. Only time I’ve stepped in a church over the past eight years or so was for weddings or funerals. I used to be Baptist though. Even went to bible college for a year after high school. They thought they thought of everything with their draconian dress code, but I proved them wrong. It was the early nineties, I was a grungy skater boy and nothing in the dress code prevented me from wearing a flannel over my shirt and tie. By the end of the year everybody just refered to me as Dawctoor Flannel. But yeah, they were pretty crazy, and I meancut up your bananas crazy. And that’s my story.
Hi Frisby! (I realize you’re probably not around now, but I can still say hi, right?) That is A) awesome about the Chico fun fact — it’s good to know the award voting was just as dopey back then as it is now, and B) amazing about the bananas. Wow. I think, though, that I’m going to call you Dawctoor Frisby from now on. I mean, you opened that door! :P
I have to say that all these Baptist upbringings are so foreign to me! We went to Quaker school when we were kids, and actually became Quaker then, because the Meeting in that community was so awesome. (Our Dad, who had grown up Catholic, was shopping religions at the time. I think he had settled on an Episcopal church in the area before finding Quakerism… It ended up being a good fit.) Quakers? Do not cut up their bananas.
And good morning, everyone! That Sabres game was a total bummer, but the trannies one was a delight. In other words, yesterday’s hockey was a bit of a curate’s egg.
Good morning!
(I grew up Catholic too, and am now a devout atheist…um, look at that hobo!)
I’m not sure if I’m over Sunday’s game. It remains to be seen if I will watch those shitheads play tonight.
Also, I just discovered http://foodnetworkhumor.com/ and it is making my day!
Add me to the Catholic list, but right now, I’m more of a Christmas/Easter Catholic. 16 years of Catholic education will do that to you, I guess.
And the Sabres game was a bummer, but at least I spent it in the good company of my fellow bloggers at a bar. And the Sabres reward our venturing out of our mother’s basements with a loss. Real good, Sabres, real good.
Two things did make me laugh last night:
1. the Pens throwing tote bags on the ice to celebrate Sid’s hat trick.
2. Tyler Myers “treating himself” to a brownie at dinner to celebrate his birthday. Is Crunchy’s No Fatties Allowed attitude permeating the locker room?
Is Crunchy’s No Fatties Allowed attitude permeating the locker room?
You have to ask?? I bet the other guys had to hold Crunchy back while Myers was eating that brownie.
It remains to be seen if I will watch those shitheads play tonight.
Seriously. We’re watching, because we’re bloggers and we have to. (Just kidding. We’re watching because we all have stitching and shit we can do during the game so we don’t have to pay very close attention.) My prediction is an easy win for the Leafs that will then be played across the Toronto media (and thus the majority of the hockey MSM in general) as proof that Burke’s trades were a master stroke. Speaking on behalf of Devils fans everywhere, our deepest apologies to the hockey world at large.
Resch posted a 9-31-3 record in 51 regular season games.
Give that man the Vezina! That’s an awesome Devils fun fact!
The Sabres aren’t very good with the positive affirmation, are they?
I’m a Catholic, who went to a Catholic school, and is now at a Catholic university. Or well, the university is largely paid for by the Church, but it isn’t officially allowed to be Catholic by the State. But last Sunday was the first time I went to Church in over 10 years. So yeah, I ID as a Catholic, but not much more than that.
Resch posted a 9-31-3 record in 51 regular season games.
Give that man the Vezina! That’s an awesome Devils fun fact!
Now that I think about it, Chico’s record at the time was probably more a product of the system, rather than a reflection of his actual personal contributions as a player. So he probably did deserve the Vezina. :P
In 1983-84, New Jersey Devils goaltender Glenn “Chico” Resch received one first-place vote in balloting for the Vezina Trophy, given to the NHL’s most outstanding goaltender. Resch posted a 9-31-3 record in 51 regular season games.
i wonder who voted for him?
i wonder who voted for him?
Clearly it was somebody who was off his rocker. Was Milbury GMing yet back then? :P
Ow. Frisby. Bible College? Yikes. Those are the worst. I used to work for a very contemporary Christian teen magazine and we were pretty much banned on all Bible College campuses. Instruments of the Devil, apparently. We fall into to the liberal Baptist category. Women deacons (elders), women ministers, make our own bylaws. Definitely not Southern Baptist. And my personal beliefs are probably more in line with Quakers than traditional Baptist churches. Particularly in that I’m not evangelical at all. I think if we ever move from here, we will be either Presbyterian, Lutheran or Episcopal.
(I hope I didn’t step on anybody’s toes by bringing religion into the conversation.) I start to see red when I see the Blan parading as a church.
And tonight I’m not going to be watching those mean old Stars, so they can’t break my heart once again. I will be having an Italian dinner with my in-laws. Granted it’s the Olive Garden, so I’m not sure if that really counts as Italian but hey, I’m not picky.
i wonder who voted for him?
Was Stan Fischler around back then?
I used to work for a very contemporary Christian teen magazine and we were pretty much banned on all Bible College campuses.
Myra, you’re an iconoclast! :D
I think if we ever move from here, we will be either Presbyterian, Lutheran or Episcopal.
Hee! If you’re anything like our dad was, you can be ALL those things! He was quite the church shopper. Heh. After we moved away from the really nice Quaker Meeting on Long Island, he then fell into Meeting shopping. I guess he just really liked to mix things up on Sunday mornings. He took the same approach to churches as he did to the comics. I remember after we moved, he went out and bought a copy of every single available Sunday paper, tossed out all the sections but the comics, then did a survey to see how to maximize his comics exposure in as minimal a number of Sunday paper subscriptions as he possibly could. We ended up getting something like five Sunday papers delivered every week, just for the comics. (I think what I’m trying to say is that Pookie and I come by the crazy honestly. :P)
And I’m no big fan of the Olive Garden, but I’ll take it over watching my team tonight. That sounds like a perfect solution, Myra!
Was Stan Fischler around back then?
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Stan Fischler’s been around since the very first hockey game. :D
i wonder who voted for him?
You know, I was wondering about that, and the only one I could think of was Fischler. He’s mad enough. But I don’t know…
tonight I’m not going to be watching those mean old Stars, so they can’t break my heart once again.
Good for you!
*sigh* Mags is veeeeeery slow today.
Now that I think about it, Chico’s record at the time was probably more a product of the system, rather than a reflection of his actual personal contributions as a player. So he probably did deserve the Vezina. :P
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::: Nice!
(I think what I’m trying to say is that Pookie and I come by the crazy honestly. :P)
Yeeeeah. Although, when you look at it that way, it’s a miracle we’ve stuck with the Devils for all these years. I guess that probably means we’re never going to get rid of them. Shucks. :D
Good for you!
Seconded! On Saturday, we’re going to have Italian (pizza counts as Italian, right?) with our friends instead of watching Devils-Rangers. Because life’s too short.
In other news, my co-worker just showed me her amazing senior thesis from her photography degree. And then was like, “We should do a show here at the library!” I’m like, “Riiiiight. I’m all about hanging up my crappy pictures of my cats and my vegetable garden with your stunning artwork from photographing abandoned insane asylums.” Heh.
Riiiiight. I’m all about hanging up my crappy pictures of my cats and my vegetable garden with your stunning artwork from photographing abandoned insane asylums.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Although, when you look at it that way, it’s a miracle we’ve stuck with the Devils for all these years. I guess that probably means we’re never going to get rid of them. Shucks.
Heh. There’s my depressing thought for the day. :P
then did a survey to see how to maximize his comics exposure in as minimal a number of Sunday paper subscriptions as he possibly could. We ended up getting something like five Sunday papers delivered every week, just for the comics. (I think what I’m trying to say is that Pookie and I come by the crazy honestly. :P)
Does it make me crazy if I don’t think that is crazy at all? That makes perfect sense to me if you really love comics.
My dad never attended church when I was growing up and had incredibly right wing views (idolized Rush). I think this is my way of subtly rebelling.
Our dad also idolized Rush! Of course, he died early in 1994, so it was still kind of fresh to think that way. I like to believe he wouldn’t still feel that way if he were alive today. :P
Does it make me crazy if I don’t think that is crazy at all? That makes perfect sense to me if you really love comics.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I’m not sure he really did love comics! I think he loved the idea of the whole family lingering over Sunday breakfasts together, and comics seemed like a good way to ensure the kids would. (Notice that the comic-reading was happening when we would otherwise have been going to Meeting. I guess the comic-shopping and church-shopping really were the same thing. :P)
Riiiiight. I’m all about hanging up my crappy pictures of my cats and my vegetable garden with your stunning artwork from photographing abandoned insane asylums.
Hee! Poor Pookie’s self-esteem. You know that’s shit, right? You know your pictures are artwork in their own right, right?
My dad never attended church when I was growing up and had incredibly right wing views (idolized Rush). I think this is my way of subtly rebelling.
It beats piercings and tattoos, methinks.
You know your pictures are artwork in their own right, right?
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I’ve been telling Pookie exactly that in email for the last few minutes! Monday nights are REALLY rough for our photography art, because she works late and I’m always totally fried from work and going to the grocery store and it just being Monday night. So last night I was sitting on the couch trying to take a picture of anything to fulfill our 365 requirement, and ended up taking a horrible, wrong-white-balance, wonky depth of field macro shot of the TV zapper. I was telling Pookie that her coworker might take stunning photos of abandoned asylums, but I bet she’d NEVER think to take that picture of the TV zapper. Heh. :P
her coworker might take stunning photos of abandoned asylums, but I bet she’d NEVER think to take that picture of the TV zapper.
She probably wouldn’t, no. I’m photo-broken from lugging home this semester’s books and trying to take a picture of them. They’re so berloody un-photograph-able that I’m tempted to set them on fire. Or I would be, if I hadn’t just mortgaged my kidneys to be able to afford them.
but I bet she’d NEVER think to take that picture of the TV zapper.
Yeah, you’re right! When we do put on a show, I’ll be sure to include the zapper picture.
They’re so berloody un-photograph-able that I’m tempted to set them on fire. Or I would be, if I hadn’t just mortgaged my kidneys to be able to afford them.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I shouldn’t laugh, but… :D
And it TOTALLY sucks when you get what you’re sure is going to be a great idea for a photo subject, and it just REFUSES to cooperate by being photogenic. *Glares at all the counted-thread needlework in our house*
When we do put on a show, I’ll be sure to include the zapper picture.
Good. Because it is going to blow her away. :P
*Glares at all the counted-thread needlework in our house*
*joins you in glaring at the navy cardigan-in-progress* Beeyotches.
When we do put on a show, I’ll be sure to include the zapper picture.
Good. Because it is going to blow her away. :P
I don’t see how it couldn’t!
Woo! Church talk! Better than talking about the Sabres game I suppose.
We grew up half-catholic. I haven’t been to church for realsies in about 18 years. Although I briefly dated a girl in high school who’s family were Pentecostals. They asked me to go with them to service one night. They we’re like, “It’s kinda crazy, just letting you know.” It was awesome.
Although I briefly dated a girl in high school who’s family were Pentecostals. They asked me to go with them to service one night. They we’re like, “It’s kinda crazy, just letting you know.” It was awesome.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: After years of Quaker Meeting being the only church services I attended, I found a friend’s bar mitzvah to be the craziest thing I’d ever seen. Until I went to Catholic mass with my grandmother, and the sermon was all about how if you want to talk to God, just ask the priest to do it for you. I can’t even IMAGINE how wild Pentecostals would seem!
*joins you in glaring at the navy cardigan-in-progress* Beeyotches.
Oooh, man, navy is hard to photograph, yo!
I can’t even IMAGINE how wild Pentecostals would seem!
No kidding. I was a sort-of-Catholic raised kid who hadn’t set foot in a church in years at that point. That shit was wild. I’ll admit though, they were very nice and very open-minded…which is just about all you really can ask for in a religion.
I stayed away from hockey websites for the last 2 days so I could watch the Devils/Kings game last night in HD right before my real life game, which our team lost 7-0. Thanks for spreading the suck, Devils! If Brodeur is starting tonight, I don’t think I can bear to watch.
And in the religion department, what do you call someone who has to attend Catholic church with their wife every Sunday despite not being a Catholic or having plans to join? Husband of the year obviously.
I’m all about hanging up my crappy pictures of my cats and my vegetable garden with your stunning artwork from photographing abandoned insane asylums.
I like your cat pictures! I’d take Favre on the TR chair over an insane asylum anyday!
Re: Church
When my mom used to force us to go, I remember it being the most horrible experience of my week. When they start that “peace be with you” handshake nonsense, I knew it was almost over. I also can’t believe I had to be in CCD until 9th grade! All that effort for nothing! Sorry Mom!
Mike, that’s dedication. I’m impressed!
That is nice of you Mike. I don’t know that I could do it!
My Dad used to come with us to church, but he never took the host, or whatever the hell it’s called. (The white wafer thing…) My sister and I never understood why.
Until as adults we discover that he doesn’t believe in god. He just went to church with us because mom made him.
I’ll admit though, they were very nice and very open-minded…which is just about all you really can ask for in a religion.
Yeah, that really is all you can ask for, so kudos to them! That’s pretty cool!
what do you call someone who has to attend Catholic church with their wife every Sunday despite not being a Catholic or having plans to join? Husband of the year obviously.
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(And thanks, Pam, for the kind words about our art photography. :P)
I also can’t believe I had to be in CCD until 9th grade!
The year I was confirmed, the CCD director at my church tried to force me into CCD and the confirmation classes. Nevermind the fact that I was in a Catholic school and could probably teach the CCD/confirmation class, he still wanted me to go. My mother had to have a sit down with our priest, who agreed that the CCD director was a whack job, that my 3 hours of religion per week at school were better than his weekly classes.
I didn’t learn anything in CCD. I couldn’t even memorize the prayers. I only remember a few anecdotes about it:
1. In 9th grade a kid in my class told one of the instructors that his fly was open. Instructor’s response was something like “Oh goodness, thanks for letting me know”
2. We had to listen to “what if God was one of us” and discuss the lyrics
3. I almost got left back in 6th grade CCD because I was spiritually poor
4. One time I forgot to wear a bra
5. Our final retreat before confirmation, we were supposed to act out a skit of a bible scene, but my group just bullshitted (bullshat) with eachother instead of planning, so we threw together Noah’s Arc which was pretty damn funny
6. My best friend accidentally knocked over a nun at the retreat
7. we had to sing Kumbaya at the retreat, and I was repeatedly early in singing the kumbayas. Also funny.
8. My classmate asking me if I thought our teacher’s hair at the top of her head looked like a “butthole”
3. I almost got left back in 6th grade CCD because I was spiritually poor
I love you. That’s beautiful.
Ah, CCD. I learned all the prayers in French, and English, and later in Latin. I was good, and kept up and was nice to the nuns and blablabla. But it was a complete and utter waste of time, because I can’t remember any of them now, and I wouldn’t blink twice about doing some of the things they warned against. I never did get to do Confirmation, because we lived in Hong Kong at the time, and my Da thought the Pastor was a… well, you can’t really repeat what my Da said about that man.
Wow. While you guys were all CCDing it up, I was developing a fondness for “Apartment 3G”. (No joke. I really liked “Apartment 3G” when I was a kid.) In fact, the one episode of “Golden Girls” I’ve ever seen involved an “Apartment 3G” joke (one character remarked that it had been years since she’d last read it, and another character said, “Oh, let me catch you up. It’s later that afternoon…”), and I laughed and laughed and laughed and still, to this day, find that joke uproariously funny. Ah, “Apartment 3G”. How you’ve enriched my life. So much more than Meeting or church would have done. :P
But it was a complete and utter waste of time, because I can’t remember any of them now,
Like calculus.
Mags, one of my friends was in the same boat, and we laughed it off. We got report card like things, and my mom was shocked. I don’t know if she was more angry with me or the teacher. It actually said “spiritually poor” or something to that effect on the card. I’ll never forget Mrs. Reny-Vela.
Andrew, I’m gonna disagree with you on the virtues of calculus!
I’m not familiar with Apartment 3G!
(PS – I love the Golden Girls!)
3. I almost got left back in 6th grade CCD because I was spiritually poor
Nice!
I had to take Bible in high school, but it was treated essentially as a history class, so it was actually pretty interesting. Anyway, every Friday we had Bible Jeopardy. As the teams racked up points, you got closer and closer to the end goal of crossing the river Jordan. My team was comprised of me, my best friend, and the school’s delinquent — rumors were he’d gotten a criminal record by setting fire to another school (or maybe it was just another school’s dumpster). We rocked Bible Jeopardy so much that we crossed the river Jordan at Christmastime, forcing the teacher to create new goals for us, culminating with “ascending to heaven in a firey chariot”. Of course, the only thing I remember from my glory days of Bible Jeopardy is the whole Red Sea/Reed Sea thing.
And the only thing I remember from Quaker Meeting was the ancient woman who would stand up to speak before the kids got sent to Sunday school to tell a story about nature. I remember clearly her talking about feeding a song bird on her windowsill. I work with some hardcore born-again Christians and I’m always like, “Wait, you’re going to church on a Wednesday night? Can’t you, like, meditate about feeding songbirds on your drive home and then be home to watch tv instead?!”
Pookie, we learned about a bunch of religions in my high school “humanities” classes, which were like history classes. I learned much more about Catholicism from that than I did from CCD.
I love the phrase: “ascending to heaven in a firey chariot”.
Ah, “Apartment 3G”. How you’ve enriched my life. So much more than Meeting or church would have done.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I never read Apartment 3G. That and “Prince Valiant” seemed like too much effort on a Sunday morning. And I always felt sorry for Mark Trail, stuck on the back of the comics where no one ever looked.
Ah, “Apartment 3G”. How you’ve enriched my life. So much more than Meeting or church would have done. :P
I seem to be saying this a lot, but good for you :D
Like calculus.
No see, I remember that. And use it quite a bit. But ethics? Dutch Lit? Physics, Biology and Chemistry? Can’t remember any of that.
Pam, that really is sort of fantastic. Like my 3rd grade teacher who refused to grade any of her students above a B, because she felt it was demotivating to the less clever kids. Mrs. Plass. She was also the one that hit me once, for writing left-handed. Gargoyle.
“Wait, you’re going to church on a Wednesday night?
That’s why Doug Allen doesn’t sing the anthems at Sabres games on Wednesday nights. Wednesdays are for church.
And if you haven’t read The Goose’s Roostcomparison of the Devils to Zoobooks, I recommend that you do.
I tried HTML for the first time with that link. Fingers crossed that it worked.
Man, I NEVER knew anything from Calculus, so I had nothing to forget. That was where my education trajectory hit its first “Uh, yeah, you might just want to stop here” roadblock.
I tried HTML for the first time with that link. Fingers crossed that it worked.
It did! WEEEEEEE! Also, I read that post! Fabulous.
And I always felt sorry for Mark Trail, stuck on the back of the comics where no one ever looked.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I liked Mark Trail. I often forgot to read it, but when I remembered, I liked it. Prince Valiant was hard to figure. I couldn’t sort the characters out at all. In case you wall were wondering. :P
Even when Marty Brodeur misses half the season they play good hockey and go deep into the playoffs.
Does giving up two goals in the last 1:20 of regulation in Game 7 of the 1st round count as deep?
Mags, she hit you for writing left handed? They used to think that was a sign of the Devil! My dad is left handed and was converted to be right handed as a kid.
Dude, what is UO with those FLASHY Zoobooks? Dude, I was reading those things waaaaaaaaaaaay back when, before they had any dumb rainbow font on the cover. I can’t BELIEVE he’d try to compare the Devils to a modern-day Zoobooks! BOOOOOOOOO! :P (Also, he claims the Devils “go deep” in the playoffs. He’s very, very, very wrong. Heh.)
Also, hooray for calculus appreciation!
Does giving up two goals in the last 1:20 of regulation in Game 7 of the 1st round count as deep?
EXACTLY what I was thinking. Way to do your research, Goose’s Roost! :P
Pam, yup, she hit me. She said God created man in his image, and the Devil was God’s mirror. Most people are right handed, so they must be of God, and lefties were wee demons. I told her (with all the indignation a 6YO could muster) that I was not a demon, I was a faerie. But I can write with both hands as a result of that. Almost illegibly, but I can.
he claims the Devils “go deep” in the playoffs. He’s very, very, very wrong. Heh.
Depends. It’s relative see. If the pool is shallow, the bottom (and hence the “deep”) comes very quickly.
Deep: conference finals/cup finals
Respectable: 2nd round
Embarassing: first round
More embarrassing: missing playoffs, but higher draft pick makes up for it.
So more importantly Mags, would you be a right handed or a left handed shot in hockey? It’s good to have both on the blueline!
(Field hockey only allows righties, is that correct?)
Andrew, I’m gonna disagree with you on the virtues of calculus!
I figured as much, Pam!
That was where my education trajectory hit its first “Uh, yeah, you might just want to stop here” roadblock.
HAHA! Yeah, high school marked the very end of my career in mathematics. I was required to take 3 math or science courses to get my BA. I took: Geology 10, Microbology 10 (history of infectious disease), and Viticulture and Enology 10. Oh yeah, just to pad my stats…Nutrition 10. I’m not gonna brag or anything, but that was some serious sciencing on my part.
I was not a demon, I was a faerie
Awesome response.
Embarassing: first round
More embarrassing: missing playoffs, but higher draft pick makes up for it.
We actually had that conversation last night and I think we decided they were both equally haunting and heartbreaking for fans.
Respectable: 2nd round
Unless your team name is the Sharks. Apparently.
Pam, I can use any stick interchangeably (hee). And do, when I’m coaching. While I don’t have a preference for a stick side, but I prefer catching with my left, so that’s what I’ve gone with. Field hockey doesn’t allow lefty sticks, no, but they were working on a rule change about that a few years ago. I don’t think anything ever came out of it though.
We actually had that conversation last night and I think we decided they were both equally haunting and heartbreaking for fans.
It’s hard, I think. On the one hand, missing the playoffs awful, but it is final. It’s an ending. There isn’t room for hope, not even a fool’s one. You can get up, and move on. Going out in the first round, when you do have hope, that’s pretty crushing.
For me the silver lining is: the less playoff games that happen, the more money I save! So I can use it for next year’s tickets! The cycle never ends.
We actually had that conversation last night and I think we decided they were both equally haunting and heartbreaking for fans.
I think it all depends on context. Right now, I’d rather the Devils miss the playoffs than lose in the first round because I’m tired of the same old song. I’d rather they miss the playoffs and then have to respond. By, say, resting Marty more often. Or by, say, learning how to hold on to a lead. But after years and years of missing the playoffs, I’d probably rather then get in and then lose than miss altogether.
Unless your team name is the Sharks. Apparently.
Sharks are held to a higher standard than other forms of marine life due to their fearsome reputation.
On the one hand, missing the playoffs awful, but it is final. It’s an ending. There isn’t room for hope, not even a fool’s one. You can get up, and move on. Going out in the first round, when you do have hope, that’s pretty crushing.
Yeah. What gets me about the two is that missing the playoffs is awful, and protracted, and seems deeply shameful. But it’s just swept aside. You and all the other teams that missed the playoffs just become the group of non-playoff teams from that year. Going out in the first round involves a much grander sort of public humiliation. It’s as if making the playoffs suddenly erases whatever regular-season crap your team was pulling, and a first-round loss gets treated as some kind of shock, with a much different kind of shame. I mean, most Devils fans knew the team wasn’t going to get out of the first round last year, but the rest of the hockey world doesn’t factor in the March/April Swoon. No, they just see “first round upset” when they look at it. That’s what I hate.
I generally don’t believe “upsets” happen in pro sports, especially hockey. Every team is made of professionals, gets them from the same places, and has the same resources to offer them (I’m not just talking cash).
To me upsets are mostly a college sports thing.
Of course the word conjurs up all sorts of excitement and mysticism that the media can’t hold back, so they romanticize it.
Wonder of wonders…Marty’s not starting tonight. Danis is actually going to be allowed to start. I wonder if Jacques is going to pull him if he gives up a goal?
I was required to take 3 math or science courses to get my BA. I took: Geology 10, Microbology 10 (history of infectious disease), and Viticulture and Enology 10. Oh yeah, just to pad my stats…Nutrition 10. I’m not gonna brag or anything, but that was some serious sciencing on my part.
You’ve got me beat! I don’t even know what Enology is.
I definitely prefer getting into the playoffs and losing (however painfully) to not getting in at all.
Mags, I can write with both hands, too, but it was because I used to practice in secret writing with my left hand because I thought it was MUCH cooler than dumb ol’ right-handedness.
My mom said when I was a baby I leaned toward using my left hand, but various toys and spoons and such were geared toward right-handers so rather than fight them, I joined them. :P
(My left-hand writing is VERY slow. So I wouldn’t say I’m really ambidextrous.)
I definitely prefer getting into the playoffs and losing (however painfully) to not getting in at all.
For a long time, I didn’t know how I’d feel about that, but now that we’ve missed the playoffs and are looking like we’re going to again, I’m totally with you, Meg.
I don’t even know what Enology is.
Winemaking. It’s (technically) science!
Actually, it turned out to be a fairly difficult course. Imagine my surprise.
I can write with both hands, too
I’m jealous! You guys and your ambidextrousness. I have some serious cross-dominance, but it’s always one hand or the other. Except with bowling. I can bowl with both hands…Poorly, but never the less.
I can’t do much of anything with my left hand. I can barely even write my name legibly.
I used to practice in secret writing with my left hand because I thought it was MUCH cooler than dumb ol’ right-handedness.
Hee! I used to think, in the way small children do sometimes, that there was something wrong with me because I wrote with the “wrong” hand. If only someone had told me it was cool! I wouldn’t have minded so much!
I can bowl with both hands…Poorly, but never the less.
I can’t bowl at all, so you’ve got one over on me :P
I can’t do much of anything with my left hand. I can barely even write my name legibly.
Yeah, me neither. My left arm is so useless to me that I can barely even give blood from it, because my veins are all buried under the atrophy and untoned flab. It’s like my left arm just flaps lamely beside me everwhere I go, its shortness being the only thing keeping my knuckles from dragging on the ground. :P
I can’t bowl at all, so you’ve got one over on me :P
Bah! Anyone can bowl. Some people just do it better than others.
Except with bowling. I can bowl with both hands…Poorly, but never the less.
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If you’re going to count stuff done poorly, then I’m TOTALLY ambidextrous. :P
I’m really jumping in late here so here goes:
I was AT the Kings game, still don’t wanna talk about it.
I’m raised Catholic and even had the boy baptized and now we have stopped going to service altogether again.
I am left handed when it comes to fine manipulation i.e. writing, eating, etc., but I throw/shoot/bat right handed. Go fig.
Is this going to end up being one of those Facebook quizzes where at the end I find out I am most like an aardvark?
Oh, and I am getting better at Wii bowling, does that count for anything?
Senior Aardvark
I am left handed when it comes to fine manipulation i.e. writing, eating, etc., but I throw/shoot/bat right handed. Go fig.
That’s a little aardvark-ish. I gotta say. :P
Stuff like throwing and batting or even vacuuming, I have no control over my left hand. When I am unpacking groceries from a car, or carrying stuff through the airport, I put it all in my left hand, or over my left shoulder and leave my right hand completely free in case I have to open a door.
Senior Aardvark
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I am left handed when it comes to fine manipulation i.e. writing, eating, etc., but I throw/shoot/bat right handed. Go fig.
Funny, I do all of that stuff the other way around. Except batting, I still bat righty.
What foot do you kick with? That’s the real question. I kick lefty.
We did not have CCD or confirmation. Only Sunday School and Church. Sunday School was fun and games and then Bible Study. Since I like history, I’ve always liked Bible Study. I went to a Baptist university and was required to take religion. I took Survey of the Bible and was the top student from a class of about 75. (I was top in my Statistics class, too. Kind of an odd combo, I am.) The religion professor asked me what kind of background I had in religious education. I smiled and replied just Sunday School. He was crushed. He thought I had to be some sort of Biblical scholar to have aced his course. Hee.
I have to say, if I had had some of the experiences you guys have had, I’m not sure I would still be going to church either. We never had to memorize anything other than scripture and we were taught we could talk to God anytime we wanted to. Also, we believed in single church autonomy (no hierarchy telling us what to do) and the priesthood of the believer. Which means that God allows you to interpret scripture yourself, not through some pastor telling you what it means. Very independent bunch. Most traditional Baptist churches are anything like that anymore. Sigh.
And my mom never made me go, which probably helped too.
I’m sorry to go on and on. I find religion and what people believe and why, fascinating. The Kid is lucky to be exposed to so many different religions on a firsthand basis.
And bowling is the only sport that I can halfway play. Everything else I’m terrible at.
And good grief, I wrote a dissertation. So Sorry!!!
And good grief, I wrote a dissertation.
I’m so glad you did, Myra! I’ll admit I know nothing about Baptists, so I assumed 100% of all Baptists are super-conservative about all things religious. I’m glad you set me straight!
I find religion and what people believe and why, fascinating.
Same here, but only when it stays friendly. Some people get pretty well fired up about it.
And bowling is the only sport that I can halfway play.
Awesome. Bowling’s rad. It practically requires beer and nachos. That’s a sport I can get behind.
Don’t get me started on needing to “save” everyone. It wouldn’t be pretty.
Um. Nachos. Can I go home now???
Can I go home now???
Do it. Just tell the boss I said it was okay.
And good grief, I wrote a dissertation.
I’m so glad you did, Myra! I’ll admit I know nothing about Baptists, so I assumed 100% of all Baptists are super-conservative about all things religious.
Same here. All the (very few) Baptists I knew growing up were of a rather conservative streak so this is educational for me.
Also, we believed in single church autonomy (no hierarchy telling us what to do)
Reform Judaism is structured like this. There’s a Central Conference of American Rabbis (which I believe consists of pretty much all the Reform Rabbis in the US) which issues resolutions and creates a platform but all of that is non-binding and individual rabbis and congregations make their own decisions about religious practices.
My father is a (non-practicing) Reform Jew and my mother is Catholic so that makes for quite the difference there. My mother is thoroughly lapsed now, but she wasn’t when my sister and I were little so we did the whole CCD thing for a few years before choosing to quit.
I’ll admit I know nothing about Baptists, so I assumed 100% of all Baptists are super-conservative about all things religious.
Same here. This has been a great discussion today.
I’m a righty in everything. Big golf I stink at, but I’m fairly decent at mini-golf.
This has been a great discussion today.
IPB: Come for the hockey, stay for the religious dissertations!
I find religion and what people believe and why, fascinating.
Same here, but only when it stays friendly. Some people get pretty well fired up about it.
I agree with you guys. Most times I am uncomfortable discussing religion because I am an atheist, and it tends to make others uncomfortable.
I’m with Schnookie: my left side is pretty useless. Except for snapping my fingers. My left hand rules at that.
Holy crap, today was a busy day. I had to skip some of those posts, sorry.
I was raised atheist, and stayed that way. My dad doesn’t trust organised religion, and my mom just doesn’t seem to think about it ever. She once put forward the idea of going to church, but purely for the social scene. I had to remind that would entail her pushing her morning walks back on Sunday and forcing two atheist teens to wake up and attend and she dropped it.
I’ve got a Club Sports president’s meeting tonight during the game, so….hooray?
I’m a lefty too, and no one’s hit me.
The thing about Baptists is because they are so independent, you can find all kinds. It’s just the ones who tell their congregations that they have to boycott Disney that make the news. And the really pushy ones that you meet and get hit over the head by. The rest of us are fairly safe. (Note the qualification.)
I grew up in a German-Norweigan community and everyone (but me, it seemed) was Lutheran. I was very jealous of their Confirmation ceremonies because they got presents and it was a big party. We did not get anything like that. Bummer.
Wow Tim, a left handed atheist! You must frighten the bejesus out of some folks! As you can see, I sure wasn’t raised atheist, I just turned out that way. My sis Val too.
I golf and floor hockey shoot righty though, but thanks to hurling I catch with my right, and I’d probably goal-tend lefty if I ever learned to skate well enough to play ice hockey.
Wow Tim, a left handed atheist! You must frighten the bejesus out of some folks!
I’m also an immigrant. I’m everything the flyover states hate!
Also Tim, here’s what I recall from Catholic Church (for the social science aspect): It lasts for one hour. You get there, some music plays, a priest comes in, and then he reads some stuff. It’s quiet, but someone was always coughing profusely. At one point everyone gets up and repeats a chant with the priest, which was one of those things I couldn’t memorize. There’s some hand shaking involved, and then everyone makes lines and takes the host (wafer thingys) and drinks the wine (I was told that the wine was optional, so I skipped that every time. Plus drinking from the same cup as strangers is super gross). After you eat the wafer thing, you pull down the kneeling pads in the pews and you’re supposed to pray. My prayers generally consisted of “Come on Pam, only a few minutes left”. I think the priest talks again, and then everyone leaves. Trust me when I tell you that it sucks. It was so boring.
I’m everything the flyover states hate!
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Okay, it’s time to declare my workday over! Later Everyone! Thanks for interesting conversation and enjoy tonight’s spectacle!
Wow, Tim, it’s a good thing you aren’t red headed or you would have been struck down by now. Obvious spawn of the devil. :D
My left hand is pretty useless. I do everything right handed. The Kid is pretty good with both and we thought she might end up left handed. Hub’s sister is left handed and the freakie thing about her handwriting is that it is exactly, and I mean exactly, like her mother’s and her grandmother’s, but they are/were both right handed.
And I am way too chattie and bored today, can anyone tell???
I made the mistake of sleeping over at a Catholic friend’s house one Saturday night when I was about 10, so I’ve been through Mass before. I remember a buttload of standing and kneeling, handshakes, everyone mumbling the hymns, and counting the bits in the stained glass windows. It sucked hardcore, I’d hate to do it weekly.
(have to admit the hymns sound very good………….when sung at Welsh national rugby games)
She once put forward the idea of going to church, but purely for the social scene.
Once my mother decided that she didn’t actually want to be part of the Catholic church she decided that what she should have done is converted so that we would have been a part of the Jewish social scene. Too late by then though.
My father is an atheist and while my sister and I both decided we didn’t believe in God while we were still in elementary school in the interim he was very careful about simultaneously not lying to us and not undermining my mother. So there were a lot of conversations that went like this:
Me: Do you believe in God, Daddy?
Him: I believe that religion has been very important throughout history.
Heh. Early practice in evasive conversational maneuvers.
Tim, just know that if you ever go to a Catholic wedding/mass it’s all of what Pam said plus an entire wedding ceremony. I was best man at my brothers wedding. My sister was maid of honor…there was no sitting down for us. Either standing or kneeling…for like two and a half hours. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
IPB: Come for the hockey, stay for the religious dissertations!
And here I thought a civil discussion of religious beliefs in this country was impossible. IPB can do anything!
I’m an agnostic at heart and have no desire to join any church since I think they exist more to perpetuate themselves than to actually help people. I was shocked when a Catholic priest told me about the conspiracy theory book “In God’s Name” which tells a fascinating story of Catholic church corruption. Old people may remember how in 1978 there was a pope John Paul I who was only Pope for about a month before dying of very mysterious causes. Turns out he wanted to sell all of the valuable church treasures and open more places to help the poor with all the money and if that wasn’t bad enough, he wanted to push forward the idea of woman priests. The book says he was assassinated so he could not carry out his plans. I can only guess that the priest thought he was still doing good works and helping people despite the corruption at the top levels of his church since I never got to talk to him about it since he retired not too long after this.
And that’s my very long story.
……….but that’s what open bars are for, right? Catholics are big on the booze.
But you have to endure the 2 1/2 hour wedding before you can get to the booze.
But you have to endure the 2 1/2 hour wedding before you can get to the booze.
That’s what flasks are for. Gotta think people, gotta think.
And Mike, I would have loved to pick the brain of that priest. I bet he was a fascinating guy. I do remember that Pope dying but I’ve never heard of any conspiracy but then I’m not Catholic either. I once met a girl who thought all Catholics were going to Hell and was very excited about telling us how she had tried to save two nuns. Can you imagine? I just sat there with my mouth hanging open.
Schnikies, you guys are deep! It took me ten minutes to realize I was listening to the Toronto news today, so I think I’m officially too stupid to post with the likes of alls y’alls. *drools and falls of chair*
Although, I can tell you the horror story of being a flower girl at a Catholic mass wedding. Yeah, just… yeah.
I took a course on evolutionary biology to fulfill my science requirements a couple years ago, and the teacher’s assistant was a nun. It was the most rattling thing to see right before taking an exam. I mean, I know Catholics are cool with Darwin, but still.
I still find the fact that the current pope was the guy who ordered all the kiddy-fiddlers to just hush up and avoid jail is conspiracy theory-creepy enough for me to dive into other popes.