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Thread: Ship of Fools media sightings (general)
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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Originally posted by Ancient Mariner:
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Originally posted by TonyK:
And half a page in The Mail on Sunday, 2nd Nov, about the Badvent Calendars.
And here's the link.
I see that The Ship of Fools is described as a Christian Website!
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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That's what they think.
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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Originally posted by mrWaters:
The Ship was also mentioned in the recent Four Thought by Rupert Goodwins which was also how I heard about it and subsequently joined.
Thanks for the link mrWaters, an old chorister mate of mine. And a very interesting subject, to boot.
I prefer the Church Times coverage to the Daily Mail. It's worksafe, too!
Good old Church Times, it doesn't need to show pictures - the description is perfectly ample to anyone with half an imagination....
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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And, as an added bonus, you get an excellent Noel Ford cartoon thrown in. As another bowdlerised space quote puts it: 'It's Advent, Jim, but not as we know it'.
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Net Spinster
Shipmate
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The Freethinker also noted the Badvent. I'm not sure some of the commentators know what Ship of Fools is.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Originally posted by Net Spinster:
I'm not sure some of the commentators know what Ship of Fools is.
I'm not sure some commentators know what anything is, but that's the sorry state of modern journalism.
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luvanddaisies
the'fun'in'fundie'™
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Badvent also gets a mention in The Week, in the "Spirit of the Age" column on page 6.
I do like The Week, it's a very handy publication.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Originally posted by Net Spinster:
The Freethinker also noted the Badvent. I'm not sure some of the commentators know what Ship of Fools is.
The way the article was written, the only way you'd know the calendar poll was meant to be a joke would be by visiting the site.
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Ferijen
Shipmate
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It's not a media sighting, but evensong tonight started with ttr winner of The Laugh Judgement... Still going strong.
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
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Noted on the Beeb, in an article on Christingle.
I always thought it commemorated Jesus' first school handicraft project...
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luvanddaisies
the'fun'in'fundie'™
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They must have particularly skilled and dedicated researchers - the article they link to is in Oblivion.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Either that or the writer is a ship reader and just automatically comes here when looking for something liturgically bizarre. The full collection of threads stored on the ship from Ecclesiantics, Mystery Worship, and Small Fires boards probably mean that the ship is the best place to trace eclectic worship practices and beats any published text. It is not the depth it is the variety.
Jengie
[ 19. December 2014, 15:55: Message edited by: Jengie jon ]
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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Steve Goddard is currently talking about Rattles and Rosettes on BBC Radio Leeds.
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luvanddaisies
the'fun'in'fundie'™
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Originally posted by Jengie jon:
Either that or the writer is a ship reader and just automatically comes here when looking for something liturgically bizarre. The full collection of threads stored on the ship from Ecclesiantics, Mystery Worship, and Small Fires boards probably mean that the ship is the best place to trace eclectic worship practices and beats any published text. It is not the depth it is the variety.
Jengie
True, but they still have to actually find anything in Oblivion - and we've all been there, done that, lost that afternoon. There're probably shipmates lost in there who've been there for weeks.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Not really. Christingle is a big help. Just use google advanced, so you are only looking at the boards, and then search for cristingle. Only five pages and most of those can be ignored.
The work of an hour or so at most for someone whose business it is to find these things.
Jengie
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Tubbs
Miss Congeniality
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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
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Originally posted by Jengie jon:
Either that or the writer is a ship reader and just automatically comes here when looking for something liturgically bizarre. The full collection of threads stored on the ship from Ecclesiantics, Mystery Worship, and Small Fires boards probably mean that the ship is the best place to trace eclectic worship practices and beats any published text. It is not the depth it is the variety.
Jengie
True, but they still have to actually find anything in Oblivion - and we've all been there, done that, lost that afternoon. There're probably shipmates lost in there who've been there for weeks.
Not so much lost as made to sit there for a time and think about whatever it is they've done.
Oblivion goes back to 2010, and looking at the size of it, probably needs a tidy before it gets out of control. For anything older than that, including threads from the boards that no longer exist like Urban Myths etc, then look in Limbo.
Tubbs
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Ancient Mariner
Sip the ship
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What does he say about us, Surfing?
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Tree Bee
Ship's tiller girl
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
It's not exactly a media sighting, but Tree Bee found mention of the Ship in a book she's been reading, Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie. It even mentions Hell! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Wish I could help out by remembering what Stuart said about us. I think it was complimentary!
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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We have made it to Cracked. They unfortunately have not quite got the info right.
Jengie
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Boadicea Trott
Shipmate
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With reference to the Stuart Maconie reference to S of F in "Adventures on the High Teas", it starts by discussing Vaughan Williams' Down Ampney tune and how many people love it dearly, though others dislike it equally intensely:-
"And this is from a web forum called Ship of Fools, where contributors can excoriate the most hated kinds of people they know and condemn them to eternal damnation:
‘I call to Hell all those who take it upon themselves to lengthen the minim (half-note) at the halfway mark in Vaughan Williams’ fabulous tune “Down Ampney”. This includes the editors of the latest Anglican Church of Canada hymn-book (Comic Praise), but also the musicians on BBC Choral Evensong broadcast recently from St Endellion in Cornwall. It deflates the whole feeling of movement … Bring back the Inquisition, I say …’
There is something of the very soul of Middle England in this too, I feel. "
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Eutychus
From the edge
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Not exactly a media sighting, but it's nice to imagine that this policy change by Tesco was brought about by a May 2014 Hell thread (now sadly extinct).
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Nope! I limbo'd it at the eleventh hour, because people kept referring to it. Currently bottom of page 16.
Great article. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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O.K. so this isn't really about our Ship, but maybe we can sue for defamation of character.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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Did anyone hear Simon on Radio 2 this morning?
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Doc Tor
Deepest Red
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Spike bumping this thread reminds me to tell you that Captain Simeon sails the wild seas of Down in The White City. The name of his ship is naturally The Ship of Fools.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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![[Cool]](cool.gif) I'll have to see if US Amazon has it.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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Originally posted by Spike:
Did anyone hear Simon on Radio 2 this morning?
From 40 mins
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