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Thread: Hell: mesmerised by the vicars legs?
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tomb
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Originally posted by Arrietty:
.... How on earth are any of us to think of our spiritual lives while they waft fragrantly about the church on their stork-like legs mesmerising people?
And thank God he wasn't anglo-catholic, or he might have been smoking, as well.
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Nightlamp
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I think he is Anglo catholic he was looking quite high church in todays newspaper.
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duchess
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Originally posted by Arrietty:
<snip!>This is just the sort of statement that shows why men should not be ordained. Far too distracting. How on earth are any of us to think of our spiritual lives while they waft fragrantly about the church on their stork-like legs mesmerising people?
Arrietty, you have killed me here! LOL! I picture John Cleese walking his silly-walk walk...and we all can not listen to any sermon since we are so fascinated by his stork-like legs? Watch out for the spider men! Hehe. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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[ 08. September 2002, 23:03: Message edited by: Nightlamp ]
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Oh gosh...I forgot to preview my code...pls forgive me! ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Sarajane
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So just what is it about vicars, girls?
The only vicars I know are either a) a nice old codger but distinctly unfanciable or b) female and complaining about the effect being a vicar has on their love life. Tell me- what delights are we Friends missing out on? Haven't had a mesmerising leg for years, darlings!
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Nunc Dimittis
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You mean, you are missing out on the droolable curates who wear Hawaiian shirts and shorts on their days off? Who turn out to be gay... *sigh*
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Ariel
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Nunc, just a word of advice from my own experience. When you meet a man you like, always assume he's married, gay, or in a celibate holy order. Or possibly all three. Especially if he is kind, caring, sensitive, witty and fun to be with. It saves time.
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by Ariel:
When you meet a man you like, always assume he's married, gay, or in a celibate holy order.
Unless, of course, you're gay, in which case the reverse applies. And in my case, not in a celibate holy order, but requiring a specifically sexual relationship, which lets me out.
(Actually, I've only met a few gay priests via online personals ads thus far, but I'm very happy to have left personals ads behind for the most part as it wasted my time utterly. And sorry to say, but the clergy I met via those ads were every bit as unreliable and flaky as all the other people I met via those ads.)
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duchess
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[modified version...he-he]
He's got legs, he knows how to use them.
He never begs, he knows how to choose them.
He's got a dime all of the time,
stays out at night movin' through time.
Oh, I want him, said, I got to have him,
the vicar's alright, he's alright.
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welsh dragon
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So is this the real reason for having priests vested up then? to hide their mesmerising legs under their surplices or cassocks? So is that why our clergy have to dress up as 1st century Romans (always seemed strange to me). I think we ought to be told.
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Nightlamp
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Welsh Dragon I think we have found the real reason why we still have robes for clergy we don't want the congreagion distracted by the mesmerising legs during worship.
I supect high church clergy legs are more mesmerising because they have more robes.
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Merseymike
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I assume that +Graham Dow (Carlisle) was chosen to ensure that the Episcopal bench had at least one certifiable lunatic, hence displaying the breadth of contemporary Anglicanism.
Being serious, what the hell is a fool like that doing as a Bishop ?
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Nightlamp
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# 266
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In what way has he been foolish in this instance?
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Janine
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Ah... being a generic American Christian, I don't get to see clergy-types in robes. 'Cept on TV. Seems, though, if the fellow doing the preaching would stay tamely behind a podium or altar, whatever y'all use, it wouldn't matter if he was naked from the waist down, you'd not know...
So then, do the troubles come in the end from the holy-makers coming down to earth to interact with the pew peons?
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Esmeralda
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Originally posted by Merseymike:
I assume that +Graham Dow (Carlisle) was chosen to ensure that the Episcopal bench had at least one certifiable lunatic, hence displaying the breadth of contemporary Anglicanism.
Being serious, what the hell is a fool like that doing as a Bishop ?
I am becoming seriously worried by this as it was Graham Dow (pre-episcopal) who married me - sorry, married me and my spouse. Could this be why I dreamt one night about my vicar preaching wearing a black corset, suspender belt and black stockings, a la Tim Curry in Rocky Horror show? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) Oh no, that was before I got married... what good luck I was never in Revd. Brown's parish.
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Raspberry Rabbit
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Tsk - what a nasty group of people you are for mentioning Bishops opining about 'rectal demons' and then fail to provide adequate references for the fact. *Did* a bishop, in fact, come forth with something about anal intercourse and its presumed connection with 'rectal demons' or was it a matter of 'he said she said' - in other words, an anecdote.
Enquiring minds want to know
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Nightlamp
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The said Bishop comes from the extreme end (terrible pun) of the charismatic spectrum. He is often credited with believing in rectal demons but whether he actually believes in them is another question.
Long before he became a Bishop I heard him say that demons were quite common. I heard him once when he was an Area Bishop and he seemed to have have become more moderate in his theology.
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Sarkycow
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Originally posted by Nightlamp:
Long before he became a Bishop I heard him say that demons were quite common. I heard him once when he was an Area Bishop and he seemed to have have become more moderate in his theology.
Or he has been warned to keep his gob shut on the more outlandish aspects of his beliefs?
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Esmeralda
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Perhaps he has been warned to keep everything shut... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) Seriously, I have known Graham for thirty years and never heard him mention demons, not even in our marriage preparation. I am quite fond of Graham and don't wish to see him maligned - I think we ought to give him the benefit of the doubt (or would that be the benefice of the doubt? And no, I've never seen his legs except in trousers.
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Miss_Molly
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I have obviously been hanging out in the wrong diocese. The only time I have been mesmerized by any member of the clergy was during a Eucharist being celebrated by a curate in her last month of pregancy. I was terrified lest her alb and chasuble make her trip on the marble steps of the altar.
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Arrietty
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Originally posted by Esmeralda:
I have known Graham for thirty years and never heard him mention demons
He wrote a Grove Booklet about deliverance in which demons featured quigte heavily, I don't recall any mention of rectums though! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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