When I was a kid, the worst part of church was having to recite Bible verses in front of the whole congregation as people were settling in for the most boring three hours of holy rolling.

Out of the mouth of babes, Jesus wept for about 20 minutes.

There are some good things about having a mother who wants everyone in church to love her - she won't give you public grief when you stay seated during the weeping recitation. But when you get home? Teeth gnash.

I don't know if this was her idea or Aunt Cherie's - all I know is that it wasn't mine. It was decided that my cousin, Bobby, Aunt Cherie, my mom and I would hold conversations using only Bible verses! Yay us! Not fun. Didn't work.

Now.

Some people here on this very board enjoy their music. Sometimes they even get the lyrics right.

Please do visit when you feel the spirit of word association coming upon you like a rolling stone.

With an OP like that, don't be surprised if all you hear in reply is the sound of silence.



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It was better before you added the memo line.

Watch it or Miss Gladys will be unable to lunch today.

Just keep it off his wave, m'kay?

Do you have any idea how hard it is to work In A Gadda da Vida into a conversation? Although I guess I just did.

That went over like a lead balloon. ;)

Don't you mean a Led Zeppelin?

Of course I could be wrong; I hit my head tripping down the Stairway to Heaven.

You're right!

"That joke wen't over like a lead balloon" said someone. I can't remember who. Too lazy to Google it.

This particular comment went over like iron instead of lead. It went over like an iron butterfly.

Ah yes, another expert on Ingle-ish!

Nicely done! Garden, Sound Garden: I'm outta my league!

Although it just ain't like Cole Porter. . .

I don't know all the lyrics to all of the songs. It's not like I write them.

At least not yet. . .

Don't fence me in

Why not? Letts do it.

Please don't hate me, but I really, really dislike musical theater. Except for Cats.

Hey, Cole Porter was awesome. I don't watch the theater, just listen to the music.

1. What's your favorite Cole Porter song?

2. Please find below a British advertisement with the little drummer girl.

3. Did you see the miniseries with the Viking Israeli spy? I love Alexander Skarsgård. He's a fabulous vampire. He's a piss poor Gadi.

https://youtu.be/M9q1Brks09U

Did Noah have Cats on the ark? At least twice?



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Me too. I have yet to watch THE SOUND OF MUSIC!

There is one musical that I would recommend. I was in one of the great theater cities and went to a concierge, as is my wont, to get recommendations. I said something like, "I'm not an American tourist from Kansas, so I don't want anything by Andrew Lloyd Webber, just heavy drama. The concierge replied, "well the heaviest thing available right now is a musical and I can assure you it is devastating." On that recommendation, I took the risk and was glad I did it.

The play is Next to Normal. It's a brutal, sardonic look at a family dealing with mental illness. One of the songs is "My psychopharmacologist and I." It's a true tragedy, a story of life and death and love.

But it is the exception in an era of musicals--and even theater in general--for the masses.

LOL

While I do know many song lyrics and can quote them here, I think I'll hijack this thread to tell a story similar to that of the OP.

Back in April of 1971, when I was just 7 years old and my younger brother (also blind) was 5, we drove up from Los Angeles to Lodi/Stockton (California) to see some of my dad's relatives. (Because he was working, my father didn't go with us). Anyway, we spent four days up there, including a Sunday.

Now I must break away from the story to tell you that my parents' marriage was a religiously-mixed one; my mom was a practicing Roman Catholic while my dad was a back-sliding former Nazarene (his parents and siblings had since converted to white southern Baptist).

So anyway, my mom gave permission for my brother and I to sit in on one of their Bible classes (one of my cousins had asked for it). When the Sunday school teacher learned that my brother and I were Roman Catholic, she decided to show off how much more her Protestant kids knew about Bible stories than these two poor blind Catholic kids. Unfortunately for her, it turned out that both my brother and I knew more about the Bible stories than any of her class did--we were able to answer all of her questions before anybody else could muster one.

And while I've been back to see those relatives many times, nobody ever asked me or my younger brother to attend Sunday school with them again.

Praise the Lord and pass the loot!

Does your computer software translate emoticons?

I'm about to write a heart. <3

After the word "heart.", my screenreader says "<3". That should answer your question.

I'm glad you're here.

Never read it. 2 semesters of Old Testament at Ricks were the most thoroughly wasted hours of my academic career. Did not read it for those classes either.

there is a funny story in Tom Sawyer where old Tom wins a scripture quoting contest.

The prize is a Bible of your very own, so he might have wished he had lost.

I found that Bible talk was good training for the Renaissance Fair.

LOutL

This was written before Jesus.

"A Bible! A Bible! We have got a Bible, and there cannot be any more Bible."
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/2-ne/29?lang=eng

Ironically it was so important a man lost his head (but didn't stain his clothing) because some people needed a Bible.