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mousethief

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quote:
Originally posted by Lynn MagdalenCollege:
There will be donuts at the wedding supper of the Lamb?! wow... who knew?!

quote:
Leviticus 7:12
If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.



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duchess

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quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Lynn MagdalenCollege:
There will be donuts at the wedding supper of the Lamb?! wow... who knew?!

quote:
Leviticus 7:12
If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.


that's where all the cops are sitting and catching up. I would myself wish to sit at the end of the conveyor belt and let the krispy Kreme donuts drop into my mouth. But that is gluttony and very evil. I would try to just feast on them.

[eta: I am in awe of your awareness of Scripture, MT [Overused] ...and this new donut twist on it. ]

[ 19. June 2008, 04:37: Message edited by: duchess ]

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By Gildas in the "Thank God for the Irish" Purg thread regarding those

"right wing homophobic scumbags in the DUP - really what with La Robinson and the 42 Day thing I was sorely tempted to send Gerry a telegram saying 'Kill Them All - God Will Know His Own'. Ahem. I digress."

Made me giggle ...

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I think all this talk of donuts is God's way of telling me to go get one. Excuse me....

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On the Royal Order of Internet Bullies thread:

quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:

I suppose there are those who enjoy defending the "underdog", with little thought as to whether the so-called underdog has been peeing on the carpet.



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Organ Builder
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I'm so proud--my first entry preserved for posterity is about doggy urine.

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Spiffy
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Suck it up, OB, my first one was about hippies smelling like sandalwood and ass.

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Spiffy
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Forgive me for doubleposting, but... COME ON, I had to!

quote:
Originally posted by Max.:
quote:
Originally posted by the_raptor:
The first rule of /b/ is you don't talk about /b/...

And the partyvan is not so fun when it's on your doorstep [Disappointed]

What are you - 14?



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Doublethink.
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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
On the Royal Order of Internet Bullies thread:

quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:

I suppose there are those who enjoy defending the "underdog", with little thought as to whether the so-called underdog has been peeing on the carpet.


Pedantry

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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
Pedantry

Well, that would be a lot more interesting if this source or this source backed it up.

Etymology, unfortunately, is one of those fields where the more plausible the story is, the greater the likelihood of its being incorrect.

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Jack o' the Green
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quote:
Originally posted by Organ Builder:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
Pedantry

Well, that would be a lot more interesting if this source or this source backed it up.

Etymology, unfortunately, is one of those fields where the more plausible the story is, the greater the likelihood of its being incorrect.

The second link only gives a definition, not an etymology.
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Doublethink.
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But when I watched this, they said it was from the under-sawyer and I refuse to believe that Tony Robinson can ever be wrong.

Credo Baldrick !

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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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As long as we're indulging pedantry, back to donuts (!!), fried doesn't appear often and could simply mean 'mixed'... of the three occurrences, only Young translates it 'fried' the first time, only Webster translates it 'fried' the second time, and the third time both Young and Webster translate it 'fried.

I associate bagels (which are boiled and baked) with the children of Israel more than I associate donuts but, that said, there are many good Jewish fried donut-y foods! [Big Grin]

Now, back on track, from the Styx:

quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
quote:
Originally posted by Erin:
Y'all can agree, disagree, think monkeys fly out of my ass, whatever, I don't care.

As an ass-launched flying monkey, I might be inclined to take that personally.


[ 19. June 2008, 22:42: Message edited by: Lynn MagdalenCollege ]

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duchess

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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
Suck it up, OB, my first one was about hippies smelling like sandalwood and ass.

[Killing me]

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Chelley:
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And for those who'll now cry out ITTWACW - there isn't an eleventh commandment that says "Go into the world and make Shipmates of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Hosts, the Admins and Simon and teaching them to obey everything Erin has commanded you, and Rook will be with you always - spewing forth sarcasm and verbal lashings to the very end of the age."
[Two face]

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Manipled Mutineer
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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
Suck it up, OB, my first one was about hippies smelling like sandalwood and ass.

Actually, technically it was this one, but I think the general point still stands:

quote:

Originally posted by Spiffy da Wonder Sheep:
Snow is bad. Snow is evil. I believe that the Devil redecorated after reading Dante's 'Inferno'.

Mine was about necrophilia, as it goes, so take heart.

[ 20. June 2008, 09:13: Message edited by: Manipled Mutineer ]

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Organ Builder
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quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
Suck it up, OB, my first one was about hippies smelling like sandalwood and ass.

Actually, if this weren't here already, someone would need to put it in this thread.

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the sum total of bonabri's restrained response to a particularly obnoxious post in hell:

quote:
[Attempts to throw hissy fit but just falls over]
I love it. Sometimes, it's really not worth more typing effort than that.

[ 21. June 2008, 05:05: Message edited by: infinite_monkey ]

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Mamacita

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quote:
Originally posted by duchess:
quote:
Originally posted by Spiffy:
Suck it up, OB, my first one was about hippies smelling like sandalwood and ass.

[Killing me]
Oh, dear God, I'm having a flashback to college. [wiping tears from my eyes]

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Kelly Alves

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Not often you get a quotes file worthy quote on the actual quotes file [Big Grin]

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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.

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Callan
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Max has been entertaining us for years. This in particular, on the subject of getting a straignt answer out of a Jesuit, deserves some sort of recognition.

quote:
In 1991 a Jesuit managed to answer a question on whether he wanted a Whisky or a glass of Gin. He wanted Whisky.


[ 22. June 2008, 19:28: Message edited by: Gildas ]

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Kelly Alves

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Please pause to meditate over the tableau summoned forth from this exchange:

quote:
Originally posted by John Donne:
quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
quote:
Originally posted by passer:
Rook Rampant, on a nebulee gules...,

Oh dear. I read this as "Rook rampant in a negligee..."

I must go lie down.

That would be the leather négligée with cut-out butt cheeks and My Little Pony motif. So very RooK 2006. Fashions have moved on, darl.


(Yes: 'Rook Rampant, in a negligee rules')



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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.

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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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telephone, on the internet, for smart people - [Big Grin]

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comet

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Gort on international diplomacy:

quote:
Are we all to die in the Apocalypse of the Big Dicks?


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la vie en rouge
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I think I enjoyed this one a litte too much...

Honest Ron Bacardi explains Anglican sectarianism:

quote:
Look on the bright side, multipara. At least [Roman Catholics] take bosoms seriously. Here in Anglican central, we are facing an imminent attack of the splinters, plus possible explosion of the bosom itself.


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Lynn MagdalenCollege
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From Zappa, in the Ship Rank and Status Hell thread:

quote:
Originally posted by Zappa:
quote:
Originally posted by Geneviève:
Well, LC, living in Baltimore it is rather obligatory to root for the Orioles

Being an antipodean I have some problems rooting for anyone, except, of course for my own pleasure and hopefully that of the rootee
[Big Grin] [Big Grin]

And, in the same post because the Ship is loading so slowly, this gem from duchess from the Prayerful Flamebaiting thread, also in Hell:
quote:
Spank them, Father God, on their bare bottoms hard...but do not cast them into the pit. Just tap their buttocks a little bit...firmly
[Two face]

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Lamb Chopped
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From Janine, I don't know why, it just stuck me funny:

quote:
He held that flat bread in His hands, and took up one of those multiple glasses of wine,... and He spoke, and they were His flesh and blood...

That's real enough. It was at least as real as when we see an egg smashed into a hot cast-iron skillet on those TV commercials, while the public-service-announcement voice intones "This is your brain... This is your brain on drugs..."



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I love this. A Lutheran special!

quote:
Posted by Lamb Chopped in the Styx
quote:
Originally posted by comet:
the point of debate is resolution, however. not disagreement.

De point of debate is to catch de fish.

I'll go away now.



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Esmeralda

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From cynicgirl in Purg, this appealed to me:

quote:
...the more I learn, the more I change denominations...
[Big Grin]

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From Cyprian, in Purg -

quote:
Originally posted by Cyprian:
quote:
Originally posted by chadevan:
Oh, and I nearly forgot: when Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee ran for prez, his campaign slogan was "Faith. Family. Freedom."

2-4-6-8
Huckabee alliterates.
Goooooooo Mike!

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From Barnabas62:
quote:
"Know your enemy" is a general's dictum; it applies if you want to win. I don't want to win. I want to understand better. Folks who believe some things differently to me are not my enemies.


[Overused]

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Barnabas is and always has been a touchstone of pure class. [Overused]

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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.

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Kelly Alves

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Comet ponders the price of corruption in Alaskan politics:

quote:
c'mon Vic [Kohring] - if you're going to sell your vote to the oil companies, how about asking for enough to get you a house and get your fat ass off your parent's couch? (yep. in their single-wide. he's such a joy to cover. I'll almost miss him. [Tear] )


[ 03. July 2008, 15:11: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.

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Random Cathoholic defends the patron saint of English tucker:
quote:
Every time someone says something bad about Saint Delia, God kills a kitten. Please, won't someone think of the kittens?


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From the_raptor in Purgatory...
quote:
I can only think this is code for "ZOMG teh xtians stoled teh jews sekrit prophecy".
It's even funnier in context.

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basso

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Chorister, in the Outcast Anglicans thread in Heaven:
quote:
They could go down a treat at hen parties - you provide the tarts, we provide the vicars.

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basso

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Double post, but what the hell.

RooK, closing a thread and lamenting the lack of good help in Hell:
quote:

Honestly, you ask for demons and you get a bunch of hall monitors with pocket protectors.


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duchess

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dang beat me to it.
I know I have this in my heart

[eta: meant basso's post above...goes with quote. thx.]

[ 10. July 2008, 01:51: Message edited by: duchess ]

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Foaming Draught- priceless!
quote:
Like a mighty tortoise moves the Church of God.
Brothers, we are treading where we've always trod.
We are all divided, many bodies we;
pretty hot on doctrine, weak in charity.



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Twilight

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Chorister summed up proper behavior for us, in a language we can all understand:
quote:

like this [Yipee] in the circus
like this [Smile] in heaven
like this [Confused] in purgatory
like this [Devil] in hell
like this [Angel] in all saints
like this [Help] in kerygmania
like this [Overused] in eccles
like this [brick wall] in dead horses


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Jengie jon

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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Foaming Draught- priceless!
quote:
Like a mighty tortoise moves the Church of God.
Brothers, we are treading where we've always trod.
We are all divided, many bodies we;
pretty hot on doctrine, weak in charity.


I'm afraid that needs attributing to Anon or checking. My father's recited it for over forty years, so I think its unlikely that it was a Foaming Draught original.

Jengie

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Twilight beat me to it...

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quote:
Originally posted by Jengie Jon:
quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
Foaming Draught- priceless!
quote:
Like a mighty tortoise moves the Church of God.
Brothers, we are treading where we've always trod.
We are all divided, many bodies we;
pretty hot on doctrine, weak in charity.


I'm afraid that needs attributing to Anon or checking. My father's recited it for over forty years, so I think its unlikely that it was a Foaming Draught original.

Jengie

Ah. Well, he made no attribution, but I googled this by George Verwer:
quote:
Like a mighty tortoise

Moves the church of God.

Brothers we are treading,

Where we've often trod.

We are much divided,

Many bodies we,

Having different doctrines, but

Not much charity.

I must say I like FD's jazzy last line better.

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from Doublethink:
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God can not be ridiculed - only someone's stereotype, most usually of an institution or the customs of followers. And then it behooves us to wonder why that is being targeted.

Which just proves that Hell is worth watching.

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*faints in surprise*

Actually I think the Salavation Army proves the point - conservative morality, stand out uniform and a brass band, but are they mocked ? No. Because the vast majority of people respect the ministry out in the world that their faith leads them to perform.

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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
... the Salavation Army proves the point - conservative morality, stand out uniform and a brass band, but are they mocked ? No.

And the Starvation Army they play,
And they sing and they clap and they pray,
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they tell you that you're just a bum

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That was then ... And there is a clear point to that - perhaps that song caused them to change something in their praxis - perhaps we should move this to purg ? I'll try to think of an OP.

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Zappa, on the Rossweisse thread in Hell, about Oz Evo-Anglicans (I think)concludes with:

By one's friends' fruits shall one know them.

which is neat, and potentially very cutting.

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LATA on the worst song ever thread in Heaven:

There are war crimes less repellent than Paul McCartney's collected works.

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PeteC in Hell:

Calling Myrrh to Hell is like calling the Pope to morning prayer. It's been done so often, that it really is just a chore.

A nice way of saying it's deja vu all over again.

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