It’s been a long day in the choir loft

Twenty minutes before the evening Mass:
Director: OK, you’ve got the psalm refrain there…
[The text is: “Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.”]
Director: I want you to make a separation before “of”. I don’t want to hear any “word-zuv”, but “words. of.” And, uh, I think let’s do the same for “ever-” too, OK?
Choir member: Couldn’t we slur our words in honor of St. Patrick’s Day?

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Let us spray

Want to slip out of your obligations? Just apply some WWJD-40: details at the Curt Jester.

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Storm Panic!

The snow has started here in Boston. I hope everybody was able to stock up on bread, milk, and muffins. On Saturday afternoon, the local bakery had only four flavors left: banana walnut, carrot, raspberry-blueberry, and orange almond (who wants that?). It may be tough for a while, but we’ll get through.

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Brad Christensen and the Pope

This guy Brad gets even with overseas senders of fraudulent e-mail scams in a delightful way: he plays dumb, spins tales, and strings them along, and even gets them to waste their time sending him photos, making elaborate and ridiculous business arrangements, and trying to meet up with him. In this example, he responds to a very hush-hush offer from someone calling himself “Benedictus XVI”.

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