kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie) (02/14/91)
This one's a tad unorthodox, but Nancy thought it was funny. I saw it on a cable-TV comedy show some time ago. The Comedian says that some people don't think his is respectable work, but that he thinks God has a great sense of humor. One day, he called over some angels, and said: `See the earth? Watch this! [turns to earth] Stand up! Sit down! Kneel! Stand up! Sit down! Kneel! [turns back to angels, pointing at earth] Look! They're doing it! They're doing it!' kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu Darren F. Provine ...njin!gboro!kilroy
kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu (Dr Nancy's Sweetie) (02/16/91)
In article <Feb.8.03.13.44.1991.15800@athos.rutgers.edu>, Joe Buehler writes: >Subject: Re: Keith Drake Sez Peter could not be a pop Which I think misstates the question; Mark refers to "Simon's" mother-in-law (Mark 1:30), so it is reasonable to conclude that Peter was married. As such, he may have been a pop (though there is no indication that he was), and I don't think Keith would deny that. In modern times, were he a pop, he probably wouldn't have been a pope, but in the first century they may have had pope pops. Sounds like a breakfast cereal, doesn't it? I can see the commercial now: (actress dressed like a nun looks to camera) Here at Our Lady of Good Hope, Pope Pops is a regular part of our nutritious breakfast. I recommend them for devout Catholics everywhere! (camera zooms in on little bits of sugar-coated cardboard shaped like three-pointed hats) Pope Pops are fortified with a full day's supply of vitamins and iron, and there's an authentic Matchbox (tm) PopeMobile in every box! (camera zooms in on little toy car) And they come in Original and Avignon! (camera shows two boxes, regular and chocolate) Pope Pops -- Infallibly good! (smiling nuns eating breakfast) <shudder> [ And, of course, Pope Pops for Protestants, shaped like little `6's. ] kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu Darren F. Provine ...njin!gboro!kilroy "I'm irreverent, you're sacrilegious, he's blasphemous." -- Nancy L Tinkham Whatever you call the Magi, you cannot avoid the fact that (according to Matthew) they came to highly accurate conclusions using methods which we generally consider foolish. kilroy@gboro.glassboro.edu Darren F. Provine ...njin!gboro!kilroy "On the grand scale, the Observable Region [of space] is very much the same everywhere and in all directions -- in other words, it is homogeneous." -- Edwin Powell Hubble