My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » What's in a name? Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: What's in a name? Gramps49 Shipmate # 16378 Posted                        The pastor was notorious for forgetting the name of the baby at the moment of baptism, so the parents pinned a note to the baptismal dress, with the child's name written in large letters. Sure enough, the crucial moment came and the pastor whispered, "What's her name?" The mother replied, "It's pinned on her." "I baptize you Pinndonner Schultz, in the name of...." Posts: 2193 | From: Pullman WA | Registered: Apr 2011  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       I've had the same story relayed to me by a daughter of the manse as something that occurred in the parental ministry.... So where are we going? Baptismal mishaps? Odd names conferred at same? Ubiquity of clerical anecdotes? Firenze Heaven Host Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Gramps49 Shipmate # 16378 Posted                        Ubiquity of clerical anecdotes was want I was angling for. Maybe I should have started the thread with a different title. Posts: 2193 | From: Pullman WA | Registered: Apr 2011  |  IP: Logged Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0