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comet

Snowball in Hell
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quote:
Originally posted by Meg the Red:
Family.

Can't live with 'em and you can't suspend them by their earlobes over a vat of snapping turtles.

you can't?

damn...

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lilBuddha
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No, no, of course you can.

Frightfully bad form, however. The neighbours will talk.

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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
quote:
Originally posted by Meg the Red:
Family.

Can't live with 'em and you can't suspend them by their earlobes over a vat of snapping turtles.

you can't?

damn...

You can't if they don't have earlobes. Otherwise it looks a fine idea.

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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Stupid impatient car drivers who think themselves being in a hurry is worth cutting off cyclists, moving in front and slamming on their brakes, thinking it's a gas to nearly kill them, who pass too close and hit me with their mirrors, who put on a 'who me face' when I sound my 140dB horn at them. Are your ears ringing? We block lanes because we have to. You know absolutely nothing about cycling and absolutely nothing about driving. You have been reported to the cycling association and to the police.

Does that actually achieve anything around your way? It does fuck all here. The police are officially Not Interested unless^h^h^h^htil there's a serious injury.

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Golden Key
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Sillies! You just put the relatives in a very leaky, old rowboat in a fenced-off pond of snapping turtles!

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comet

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TICTH late spring randy botanicals having sex in my sinuses.

I've never been this allergic in my life. I'm so sneezy I'm a danger on the road.

GET A ROOM, TREES!

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Lyda*Rose

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Quotes file [Big Grin]

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Evensong
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TICTH people that forever want me to talk about my feelings.

Feelings shmeelings.

Stupid people. Go away. Get a life. Stop pretending to be sickly sweet and caring. All you really want to do is tear me up and reform my feelings in your image. Makes you feel powerful huh?

Fuck you.

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Lyda*Rose

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If you haven't done so already, Evensong, you need to read this.

Enjoy. [Smile]

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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano

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Barnabas62
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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
If you haven't done so already, Evensong, you need to read this.

Enjoy. [Smile]

Ewww! I just read Bede's entry, particularly the "mountains and valleys" thing. Said something very similar at my local congo last week. [Hot and Hormonal]

(Time for another cliche purge) [Help]

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Twilight

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Ach, Lyda Rose! Those old Limbo threads are too sad! All those people who used to be here daily and have since disappeared. Not just the ones who have died but the ones who dropped us cold and went on about their business. I see that Peronel's "location" is "self-imposed exile." She used to always show up for my Hell calls, if nothing else. What did we do wrong?

It is some of Sine's best, classic work though. [Big Grin]

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Uncle Pete

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I point out YET AGAIN that discussions such as the last several discussions we've had are probably better off with their own threads. If it's worthy of discussion, it is worthy of its own thread.

The next time I won't be so nice.

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Nicolemr
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TICTH whatever caused my brown pants (in the American sense of the word) to turn yellow the last time I had them laundered.

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TICTH the arsehole who hacked my e-mail so that I had to take half a day off work to get BT to sort things out. (Can't download the necessary software on the school's system).

May you spend eternity confined to a call centre where you are verbally abused, and every word is an arrow which pierces a nerve, which will of course be eternally renewed to be re-pierced. If I think of anything else, I'll be back. There is no statute of limitations.

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Dear copyeditor,

I appreciate that it's a behemoth of a book, that I'm using lots of non-English words in precise technical ways, that my word-ordering and grammar are sometimes flawed, that sometimes clauses need rearranging for the sense of the sentence to be conveyed as I'd intended.

However, simply striking out or rewriting whole paragraphs so that the sense is now different from what I wanted makes the whole 'going through and checking the manuscript' process a bit of a nightmare, especially because I'm on such a tight deadline. If you want to write your own alternate history set in fifteen century Salzburg, knock yourself out. Don't fuck about with mine.

Yours, the author.

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fletcher christian

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TICTH the thread in heaven about Game of Thrones season 3. I've watched season 1 & 2, but I missed the first few episodes of season 3 and so have refrained from watching till I get the dvd, but that thread keeps taunting me to look. It keeps whispering, 'Go on, you know you would like to find out what happens.' It's just too much I tell you...argggggh.

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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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quote:
Originally posted by Nicolemr:
TICTH whatever caused my brown pants (in the American sense of the word) to turn yellow the last time I had them laundered.

I've had the opposite problem; it was a bad curry.

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MarsmanTJ
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TITCH people who say 'how hard can it be?' then leave a project for me to deal with because they think they're more important than me. The relevant difficulty of the changes to the project are less important than the fact they don't understand the challenges involved.
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no prophet's flag is set so...

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quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Stupid impatient car drivers who think themselves being in a hurry is worth cutting off cyclists, moving in front and slamming on their brakes, thinking it's a gas to nearly kill them, who pass too close and hit me with their mirrors, who put on a 'who me face' when I sound my 140dB horn at them. Are your ears ringing? We block lanes because we have to. You know absolutely nothing about cycling and absolutely nothing about driving. You have been reported to the cycling association and to the police.

Does that actually achieve anything around your way? It does fuck all here. The police are officially Not Interested unless^h^h^h^htil there's a serious injury.
TICTH people who think reporting drivers who endangering cyclists is useless. (Just messing with you - it makes me feel like I'm doing something. Being a neutered sensitive new age tree hugging carnivore, it makes me feel virile for a brief moment, after which I go back to being a mouse in a dark corner, hoping no-one will step on me or set out poison.)

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RuthW

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TICTH church members dying, especially in clusters, especially in an interim period. The transitional minister is on her way out, so the brand spanking new associate minister, with the oil or water or organic soap or whatever the UCC uses when it ordains people barely dry upon his brow, will have to cope with doing yet another funeral of an old lady he didn't know for a family he's never met. And I get to break the news to him this morning.
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seasick

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quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet:
Stupid impatient car drivers who think themselves being in a hurry is worth cutting off cyclists, moving in front and slamming on their brakes, thinking it's a gas to nearly kill them, who pass too close and hit me with their mirrors, who put on a 'who me face' when I sound my 140dB horn at them. Are your ears ringing? We block lanes because we have to. You know absolutely nothing about cycling and absolutely nothing about driving. You have been reported to the cycling association and to the police.

Does that actually achieve anything around your way? It does fuck all here. The police are officially Not Interested unless^h^h^h^htil there's a serious injury.
And not necessarily even then. I know of a recent case where the cyclist's leg was broken as a result of a car not giving way (either they saw him and didn't care or didn't see him and hence weren't looking properly - broad daylight) and police are taking no further action. If you follow the cycling blogosphere it would seem that that's not atypical.

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comet

Snowball in Hell
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quote:
Originally posted by fletcher christian:
TICTH the thread in heaven about Game of Thrones season 3. I've watched season 1 & 2, but I missed the first few episodes of season 3 and so have refrained from watching till I get the dvd, but that thread keeps taunting me to look. It keeps whispering, 'Go on, you know you would like to find out what happens.' It's just too much I tell you...argggggh.

Three words:
Read The Motherfuckin' Book.

And dont touch that thread until you do.

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Moo

Ship's tough old bird
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TICTH drivers who cut in front of me when it's raining buckets and the road is slippery. There was no collision, but that's no thanks to the other driver.

Moo

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North East Quine

Curious beastie
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Job interviews at ridiculous times.
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LeRoc

Famous Dutch pirate
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quote:
Moo: TICTH drivers who cut in front of me when it's raining buckets and the road is slippery. There was no collision, but that's no thanks to the other driver.
A small word of advice: don't go driving in Brazil.


quote:
comet: Three words:
Read The Motherfuckin' Book.

That's four words. Just sayin'.

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comet

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one was gratuitous.

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Golden Key
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Pain.
[Mad] [Waterworks]

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Mrs Shrew

Ship's Mother
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Whiny pregnant people.

Yes, it's hot and your hips hurt. But you have been complaining since you were three months gone. We are all bored now. Also please stop judging the rest of us who aren't reproducing. Thankyou for shutting the fuck up already.

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Was "mummyfrances".

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Uncle Pete

Loyaute me lie
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Now that's what I call a real rant!

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Even more so than I was before

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Sarkycow
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Maybe she's been hot and in pain since she was three months gone. I had SPD from 18 weeks, and it was really difficult and painful to move about too much, let alone do all the daily activities of living that make up life with a small toddler.

So maybe TICTH people who discount others' pain [Razz]

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To you guys on Manhunt and Adam4Adam whose only pic is a close up of your dick: Am I supposed to be flattered you sent me a smile, wink, or message? Cause I'm not. Into the trash you go, tra la…

(Of course maybe it's your best feature, but still…I need to know the worst before I respond.)

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Nicolemr
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Similarly to Sine's complaint, TICTH people who favorite me on SeniorMeet who come from the entire other side of the country. Very flattering I'm sure but what good does it do me? *sigh*

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Huia
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Earthquakes and the aftermath (again).

A seismologist who has been very active in investigating the however many thousands of quakes and aftershocks we have experienced since Sept 4 2010 (and whose own house was destroyed in Feb 2011) was reported in the paper as saying that the chance of another quake magnitude 6 or above is 10%. [Paranoid]

I don't know if the converse is true - that we have a 90% chance of not having one.

It's not the actual ground shaking bit, it's the ongoing effects on people's lives.

Huia

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quote:
Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
To you guys on Manhunt and Adam4Adam whose only pic is a close up of your dick: Am I supposed to be flattered you sent me a smile, wink, or message? Cause I'm not. Into the trash you go, tra la…

(Of course maybe it's your best feature, but still…I need to know the worst before I respond.)

But you do. Otherwise you wouldn't trash them.

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The woman with the American accent in the supermarket who tried to push me out of the way and, when i wouldn't move, called me 'ass hole'.

I wish I'd thought quickly enough to respond, 'In this country we pronounce it arse hole'.

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no prophet's flag is set so...

Proceed to see sea
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Arthritis.

& drug companies: whose drug to treat my disease has now increased in price to $399.00 for each single injection.

& side effects: the brain fog, lethargy and pain that this injection gives me.

& the bird who crapped on my balding head. I hate you too, you ruby beaked tit.

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Lamb Chopped
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[Killing me]

Ahem. Sorry.

But TICTH whatever is causing my own pain and stiffness too--see a new doctor, get a new dx. I've collected a few over the years. [Waterworks]

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Nationwide Building Society and their prejudice against certain Hebridean islands.
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Ariel
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Yes, I know it's scary driving at 40 mph an hour, but perhaps you could try to go a little faster than 19 mph on a largely traffic-free straight road?
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Villages with no village shop.

Cystic acne.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

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Amanda B. Reckondwythe

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Homeowners Association that decides that the hottest days of the year so far are a great time to drain the swimming pool for a week's worth of repairs. Funny, the pool seemed just fine the day before it was closed -- didn't seem to be in need of repairs at all!

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Evensong
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TICTH massive assignments (60%!), studying, exams, mid year interviews with Important Church People, writing sermons and tax returns.

I think I need to start a Procrastination Thread. Just not sure whether it should be in Hell or All Saints. [Paranoid]

Did I mention all those things are occurring in the next two weeks?

*extreme sigh*

[ 10. June 2013, 06:57: Message edited by: Evensong ]

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MarsmanTJ
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TITCH safeguarding/child protection. I absolutely hate having to send in child protection concern reports, particularly, in this case, when I think the person in question did what he or she did unintentionally, however, I have parents raging over the incident and some action has to be taken and I have to refer it to those responsible for safeguarding.
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Doublethink.
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I think you are TICTHing the wrong aspect of this situation.

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Barnabas62
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TICTH the BBC producers of Sunday Politics for giving publicity to Alex Jones. He just looks [Batshit crazy]ⁿ - I think he's more likely to be a cynical exploiter of the paranoid. What the hell were the producers of that show thinking about?

[Not all of you may be able to access the clip]

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Golden Key
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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
I think you are TICTHing the wrong aspect of this situation.

Ditto.

Marsman, you don't get to decide. I'm guessing this is some kind of teacher or caregiver situation. (I'm *not* asking.) Stuff like this goes on and on and on, partly because adults who have some awareness or suspicion think, "oh, but X couldn't *possibly* do that; the kid must be confused, lying, or acting out because of abuse by someone else". If the situation finally does come to light and hit the news, then it turns out to be like pulling gunk out of a drain: you think you've got it out, then find it's connected with stringy stuff to more gunk...and on it goes. I've seen so many news stories where one abuse situation sparks revelations by other victims/survivors, and it turns out that the abuser abused many kids over many years.

Send in the bloody form. If you don't, you're an accessory after the fact. If you truly believe s/he's innocent, point them towards a lawyer or Legal Aid. Ultimately,though, if they did this, you're not doing them any favors by protecting them or minimizing what happened. *They* are going to become more sick every time they abuse.

TICTH all forms of child abuse, and the difficulty of stopping it.

Send in that bloody *****ing form!!! And keep the person away from kids until this is straightened out.
[Mad]

(ETA: to make gender-inclusive.)

[ 10. June 2013, 08:24: Message edited by: Golden Key ]

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lilBuddha
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TICTH Dreams. Fucking hallucinogenic, convoluted non-sequiturs. That is not the way to reunite with old friends.
And to hell with the constant, pulsating pain that is likely the seed for these pernicious pearls.

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MarsmanTJ
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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
I think you are TICTHing the wrong aspect of this situation.

Possibly, although to explain, in this case, the person in question very publically advised from a position of trust to visit a website not realising what the site contained, and then also posted a link on facebook in the private group for youth and parents telling them to visit the website in question. The individual may well have stayed within the safe bits of the site (or indeed, have been sharing a link that a friend provided) it only took me about 5 minutes to find the not-so child-friendly sections of it, since during my brief (abortive due to my hearing deteriorating) stay in teacher training, we had hammered home to us that we NEVER give out a site without checking every page and then running it by someone else who does the same thing. It appears to have taken the parents in question not much longer than the five minutes it took me.

The person has acted incredibly stupidly, but I don't think deliberately abusive. However as you have all mentioned, I don't get to make that call, the child protection people responsible concerned have to make a decision whether to take it to legal action or not. I suspect the individual concerned will be permanently removed from any contact with young people within our diocese and told what an absolute bloody idiot he's been for assuming the best of a 'Christian' website. However, under my understanding of child protection laws, making explicit adult content available to minors is potentially a serious legal offense, even if the site itself really OUGHT to have big bloody labels over it saying 'you need to be over 18 to visit this site/section' and click-through things, that doesn't lessen this individual's liability in this issue. ICTH the fact that the site in question doesn't. But when you add to the fact the site that was linked to is ostensibly a Christian website, although I'm not sure I consider them to be Christians, it was just a bloody stupid thing to do.

And yes, I've sent in the bloody form. My extensive training in child protection and the diocesan policy I signed doesn't allow me to do otherwise, I HAVE to follow procedure and also make sure it's followed up. The Anglican diocese in question doesn't allow us to even leave things with the child protection coordinator, we have to make sure that there is some appropriate action taken. I suspect this may have been after they've been clobbered for letting things slide a rather public time or two...

And that's enough for me to say, discussion wise, without getting the hosts even more cranky at me than otherwise, I suspect...

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Uncle Pete

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And a word to other cupcakes not to get into discussion mode. Start your own thread, you lazy sods!

Not here, not ever.

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The Midge
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quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
TICTH church members dying, especially in clusters, especially in an interim period. The transitional minister is on her way out, so the brand spanking new associate minister, with the oil or water or organic soap or whatever the UCC uses when it ordains people barely dry upon his brow, will have to cope with doing yet another funeral of an old lady he didn't know for a family he's never met. And I get to break the news to him this morning.

Our local curate said "Oh no, your from that road. Please don't die. I've conducted six funerals from your road since I got here." I think he may have done 7 or 8 now.

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