Too Gray Now

Has anybody seen Pat Rober***... I can't get this Kirby to work! I'm over here vacuuming up all that hot ash from Exs chair... Danm thing won't suck!

Tom... Great CenterPiece! We shouldn't let em flower, though. Makes 'em too harsh when you put 'em in the yellow pipe.

Music??? Oh, Yeah... man, oh man.... I am so Sorry, Dot... The only thing I got left of my music collection after 13 years of Uncle Harry Days is Cheech and Chong's Greates Hits... I don't know how it escaped after all these years. Hey Tom, thanks for finding my little yellow pipe... dude. But how come YOUR eyes are bloodshot now? Hmmmm? Confession might good for the soul, but what was in that pipe was just plain good... wasn't it? And... Ex... Oh... maaam... I am SO SORRY about YOUR chair. The Folgers can under it was just barely smolderin' when I went outside to get my LPs out of the WOW mobile. Maybe when Al Poole gets here he can help me sing my own reproof song... "Call Me Irresponsible"

WOW... Good thing I checked in here! I was given the wrong twig assignment (again)! I've been out front picking up cigarette butts. You know how those dirty uneblievers never field-strip 'em... they just toss them outside the door! What a mess! 738 butts I picked up! And one roach... but then I remembered the word of the Lord... but then I forgot it, again. So, >> >> >> I am really into doing the music now! Ok. So. Like. Where's all the people???

Maybe we need a fund raiser or something to generate some traffic here. TomStrange sells snow cones on the 9th corps thread (Say that ten times REALLY fast) What do we have? How about a couple of tarnished holy spirit lapel pins? Anyone? Anyone? Beuhler? Beuhler? Or we could auction off something really valuable, like Vaigra gum. Sorry. Gotta get my mind back in the retemories... Dealing w/ the Adversary: Dirty Mindedness. Card number 17 - 2Bobbit 6:1a "If thy "thing" offend thee, let thy wife cut it off..."

Let's see, Vickles, Dot, and Suz.... what is the one thing that we are told is a sure-fire way to stimulate interest in our thread? Hmmmmm? *** Hey did you hear the one about the new VIAGRA gum? No lie! They have it in chewing gum form, now. Well I got some... gave it a try... All I got was a stiff upper lip!*** (rim shot and cymbal crash goes here, followed by a LARGE white hook pulling me of this thread!)

I remember seeing "pretty young women" backstage. I only thought of their assignment sort of like the SNS flowers. You had to have good looking flowers, so that everything that surrounded leadership was sufficiently "pretty"... you know... to bless THEM, since THEY were so IMPORTANT. --> I can't remember one person that served backstage...and I was back there a lot doing Way Prod. Hmmm. Maybe I am just too damn old, now. All of the people I remember had some quirk of personality that made them memorable. I wasn't high up enough to garner any fawning. Not that I regret that, at ALL! I remember you, Suz, cuz you were fun! And I was always a sucker for long blond hair... if the truth was known. :o-->

I was just admiring your shirt... Do you need a snow cone? :P-->

Hey, TomStrangest... Did ya get that shirt off Craig's back?

Speaking of asst. corps coords... What ever happend to Dave and Judy Bed***? I know that different people had differnt takes on Dave because of his "unique" approach to Christian Communications, but I did spend a little personal time with both of them and found them to be much more "regular" people when they were not up front. Suz... I was at Indiana when "Chris fu***** Newc***" was getting his butt reamed. I'll never forget his skit singing "Do you know?" in 3 part harmony and they all tossed quarters into the fine jar because Bob Mo***** was going to break people from using that awfull phrase. It was a riot! I laughed so hard when they did that! I think even Bob was cracking up. Chris had one thing that a lot of people lacked... many people had very good senses of humor, but he didn't mind doing it up in front.

Ahhhh, but that wonderful aroma of popped corn!!! Don't throw all that our, Ex... You can string it together and put it on your communal Happy Household Holiday tree... or throw it out for the birds to eat, "Your heavenly sister feedeth them! Oh they of little feet!" So many uses!

TOM!! You are RIGHT! I nearly forgot about bless patrol! I walk my subdivision with a bright orange vest on and my name tag, and my little flashlight. Some strange looks - I get, for SURE! I spend most of the nights down by the iron gate entrances... to meet the fire truck, stop them, and then point to the inferno and say "Bless YOU!! Sure am Glad you are here! I think the Fire is over THERE somewhere! But before you rush off, let me show you this Green Card...."

TomStrange Your silly trickery does not work on me any more! I bet you were the inspiration for John Goodman in "Brother, Where Art Thou?" where he plays the Bible salesman and then beats the sh** out of those naves! Not ME! Not anymore! No Siree! I saw the movie again last night, so I saw your haymaker comming from way back yonder!

Hey 9th corps! Am I the only one who is a little concerned about TomStrange's absence, today? He ALWAYS has something to share on this thread. Such a sharing kind of guy! I have grown fond of his ability to bastardize everyone's screen name and morph those into an ever-changing witty-ism. Not having Tom around is like sitting down for chow at Emporia and seeing the plurality plate is missing... Or, going to SNS at Kenyon Auditorium and seeing Sher** Cra*** sittng on a bench with no Pipe Organ... Or looking out your window at 3:30am and not seeing any Bless Patrol... somethign MUST be wrong!

NIKA, You are one of the nice ones here. It has been a pleasure getting to know you. Like Tom-the-not-so-lone-Stranger said, just jump in any time... and HEY - if I get in the way, just !SLAP! me! Ex, That look on Sylvester's face... he is SOOOOOOOOO relentless and yet - he ALWAYS gets busted by Grannie. Thanks for the laugh! Sylvester and his son crack me up too.. "OHHHH Faaather". His kid reminds me of my son... smarter than his father but still respectful as 'ole Dad tries to show him "life's ropes".

(Best for effect if read with Mel Blanc's voice of Tweetie Bird) EXXIE!! EXXIE!! EXXIE!! EXXIE!! Dat MEAN 'ole TOM-cat has been slappin' me!! Save me from that TERRIBLE TOM-Cat! EXXIE!! Womp him with your umbrella, EXXIE!! Good! Again! AGAIN!! BAAADDD TOM-cat. EXXIE gonna womp you again if you don't stop it! ok i'm over it totally out of my system Now, Ex you must admit... that your smiley face and laughs put a WHOLE NEW meaning to "Slap-Happy". ;)-->

But Paul (Too Gray) said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans (11th Corps), and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily (with a slap)? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. More Monty Python - "Oh... to be spat upon..."

I see how you guys are... ... (now I am sporting a sunken, downcast, swollen lower lip look on my face) :(--> A slap, huh?? That is the thanks I get for all the silliness I spread in the name of good cheer and brotherly and sisterly love? SURE>>> LOVE AND HUGGS AND KISSES for the 9th Corps... while us piddly 11th corps get smacked around like Curley Joe when Moe is in a bad mood!! As Mel Brooks said in Blazing Saddles, "Hurrrumph!" Or the Frenchman that is doing the taunting in Monty Python "I Fart in your general direction"! I gotta go now. Like a once famous US President said... "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around, anymore."

NIKA... I think I owe you an apology. I started posting some silly stuff and you had some GREAT real things you said in your post. I went back and read and realized that I had rather changed the tone of the thread and should probably not have done so... at least not then. I don’t know you, (maybe I do…but), I DO know those songs that you sang and started singing them to myself. That whole post of what you did at the grave site was very – I think – inspired; and then the singing of nursery songs with the children was a great idea. What a bridge you built for the kids and all who participated! I hope you are doing ok…

RevTwoTs... Man, oh man, you moved me! I had to fall down and proclaim that Larry Flint is in thee, of a truth! Let's face it, you must have been doing a word study in the Songs of Solomon... "Oh that the Roe would dance forward with glistening knee-caps and prance on towards sun while the ointment of myrr that perfumes my holy memory of that sacred moment of the joining together of our loves!!" Pardon me while I go into my prayer closet.

TomStrange.... You are TOTALLY and 100% CORRECT! It was Rev.2Ts that Ex called upon. That will cost me a couple of percentage points of credibility, with my elder corps, I'm sure. It's just... It's Just that there are so many Tom-Toms around here, I feel a visitation from the great Chief's spirit comming over you... > (Drums playing, and I am waving one of my Atlanta Braves foam tommahawks and hopping around on one foot and saying "WOO woo woo woo". Can you feel it TomS??? Can you??? Do you feel an affinity for Turquoise and low grade silver jewlery??? That's the proof in the 5 senses world that you got the CHIEF!

Tom: Ex asked you to type in toungues and interpret... Your last post looks like you cut the interpretation short, to me. There were obviously two words in tongues typed and only one English word... I am only 50% edified! You can redeem yourself by finishing, please. What you did say was obviously.... perspired, or inspired, or already transpired, or sounded like you were tired, or wishing you could be fired, or under so much stress that you are mired, or something!!! One more word is REQUIRED!

OH DOT... That is so sad and such a waste! Damn! Paul and I used to go witnessing in Mississippi in the Black areas of town. He and I could go anywhere and talk to anyone. Few people were "open" enough to actually pull it off in a genuine way... Paul was one of those. That was in 1975-1976. I was recently in San Francisco and go there every couple of months on business. If you want to private topic me as to where you saw him, I would like to see if I could find him. Who knows. Our conversations usually started with... "Hey Paul.. I got some good things for your head." He loved to consider ideas and ponder on them and then you could watch his big face and heart just light up. Thanks, Dot

Hey Suz... Tell 'em all a story from your WOW year with Wayne P. in Mississippi. Gotta have about a dozen of those! And what ever happened to Paul Hurl. ??

QQ I don't know that there is an endless supply out there... but... one of the ways to create an appetite for it is to feed it to us and our kids so that they can keep doing it over and over again. Remember Shrek farting in the pool and killing the fish in the opening scene? That humor was aimed at young kids... young kids who like to fart in the tub and then watch us as parents laugh along with them. The kid laughs because it tickles. We laugh because the kid is so cute laughing. It is a gaseous cycle.