Bethlehemian Rhapsody

Thanks to JP on Facebook for putting me onto this! 

Nativity

While doing some research for our advent parade service this Sunday I found this. 

Genius.

 

the importance of rehearsal

Nothing I do is my fault

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In preparation for our HouseGroup tomorrow I am reading ch 1 of Remaking a Broken World (Christopher Ash) again. And Christopher Ash 'quotes' this Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon as he illustrates the way that Adam and Eve paint themselves as victims in Genesis 3. 

Meat Eaters, Made of Meat

Flanders: A song which we call, "The Reluctant Cannibal":

Seated one day at the tom-tom,
I heard a welcome shout from the kitchen:
"COME AND GEEEEEEEEEEET IT!"
Roast leg of insurance salesman!

A chorus of "yum"s ran round the table:
(Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum...)
Except for Junior, who pushed away his shell, Got up from his log, and said:

Swann: "I don't want any part of it!"

Flanders: What? Why not?

Swann: I don't eat people.
Flanders: Hey?
Swann: I won't eat people.
Flanders: Huh?
Swann: I don't eat people.
Flanders: I must be going deaf!
Swann: Eating people is wrong.
Flanders: It's wrong?

Swann: Don't eat people.
Flanders: Have you gone clean out of your mind?
Swann: I won't eat people.
Flanders: What's the matter with the lad?
Swann: Don't eat people.
Flanders: He keeps on repeating.
Both: Eating people is bad.

Flanders: But people have always eaten people,
What else is there to eat?
If the Juju had meant us not to eat people,
He wouldn't have made us of meat!

Swann: Don't eat people.
Flanders: Oh no, not again.
Swann: I won't eat people.
Flanders: All the day long.
Both: Don't eat people.
Flanders: He keeps on repeating.
Both: Eating people is wrong.

Flanders: Well... I... I never heard a more ridiculous idea in all my born days. To think that a son of mine should grow up to be a sissy - me, chief assistant to the assistant chief! I suppose you realise, son, if this was to get around, we might never get self-Government.
Swann: I won't eat people!
Flanders: Have you been talking to one of your mothers again? You're not getting to be one of these cranks who think that eating people is cruel, are you? Seeing the man sitting in the pot and you think he's suffering. Oh, it's not like that at all. Why, he's just had an invigourating chase through the forest, sitting there in the nice warm water with all the carrots and dumplings and things, he's thinking, "Oh, the pleasure and happiness I'm going to give to a heap of people". That man in the pot there, he enjoys it!
Swann: Eating people is wrong!
Flanders: Look son, son, I admire your sincerity. Always be sincere... whether you mean it or not. But you're young, you're young, when you're young you think you can change the whole world overnight, even eating people - I know, I've been young myself. Take it from your old Dad, you've just got to learnt to take the world as it is.
Swann: I won't let another man pass my lips!
Flanders: I know why you say "Don't eat people", because you are a coward, Francis, that's your trouble. Yes, a yellow-livered coward. You wouldn't mind eating people if you weren't afraid of ending up in the pot yourself - how despicable! If you go on like this you're liable to get ME into hot water.

Swann: I won't eat people.
Flanders: That's enough!
Swann: I don't eat people.
Flanders: I don't want to...
Swann: Eating people is wrong!
Flanders: Communist!

Flanders: Going around saying "Don't eat people",
That's the way to make people hate'ya.
We always have eaten people, always will eat people,
You can't change human nature.

Flanders: Now let's try...
Swann: I won't eat people,
I don't eat people,
I won't eat people,
I don't eat people!
Flanders: Must have been someone he ate!
Swann: Eating people is out!

Flanders: I give up, I give up, you used to be a regular anthrophagi. If this crazy idealistic idea of yours was to catch on, I just dunno where we would all be. Just about ruin our entire internal economy. Fortunately, I suppose it's catching on isn't really very likely - why, you might just as well going around saying "Don't fight people", for example...

Swann: Don't fight people? Ha, ha! Don't fight people?! Ha ha ha!
Flanders: There, imagine? There, you see! All part of the same...
Both: (laughing) ... fantastical impossibility!
Flanders: That's the boy!

Both: RIDICULOUS!

Intelligence

Bertie asks Jeeves when his intelligence began to flourish.

"Did it come on suddenly?"
"Well my mother thought me intelligent, sir."
"Ha! You can’t go by that - my mother thought me intelligent!"

Pugh nails it

Round and Round

HT: Lick Tan

Stranger than fiction

We've just had a wonderful holiday (involving sunshine and no planes!).
In the course of which I couldn't resist taking this photo:

To be fair to Southwark - here is the context. 

Let the Games Begin

CredendaAgenda,inspired by the 2010 Winter Olympics, are proposing an assortment of suggestions for new sports for the 2014 Games. These two seem kind of fun:

• Senator / Wolf Pack Cross. In 1995 the federal government reintroduced wolves into the forests of Idaho, insisting that they would pose no threat to humans. Testing this theory, this new Olympic event would celebrate this legislation in the great winter sport of Cross, highlighting the best of both federal bureaucracy and carnivorous predation. However, having no hard feelings, we would like to give our Senators a ten second head start on the wolves.
• Couples’ Global Warming Figure Skating. This will be very similar to previous competitions with the exception that in this event, because of the wasteful living of the first world nations, the ice is only partially frozen and is likely to split and swallow up the skaters at any moment. Skaters will be judged in all the normal categories – jumps, spins, shoulder wiggles, bun shakes, etc. But they will also be judged on their rescue efforts should one of them go in. Also, for the last thirty seconds of the long program we will release wild polar bears onto the ice.

Context is King

I thought this was fantastically funny!
 I got it via Glen and he makes some excellent points with it!

But you can just laugh if you want.

Thou Shalt Not

What does 'qualified' mean?

from an article that left me scratching my head as to whether it could be true: here

Help? Yes please!

One of the many great presents that Simeon/we(!) got given for Christmas.
A babygrow with the 'help' function on it! Superb.

Get your own

Happy Christmas!

If you think you have seen it all

We are wondering what to do for our 'end of term' House Group tomorrow night. We've got mulled wine, and thanks to Amanda, a non-alc version too. We'll have some food.

But what to do that is both fun and edifying?

Then I see this - the Rich Daddy God Table Game - and I know my search is over. All I need to do is source it now. I'm just not sure that Amazon will help me.

;)

HT: Mandy Curley via Facebook

Euroeconomics

US eh?

Sweet Dreams

Battle of the Beards

Not deep. But funny.