Chat Screen: Steve: They just wouldn’t listen. Dave: I know, right? Incoming Call: Nancy Chat Screen: Dave: Carp, it’s Nancy. BRB Call Log: Dave: Voltron Tech Support, this is Dave, how can I help you? Nancy: My lion won’t work. Dave: Excuse me? Nancy: My lion won’t work and I need it working right now. […]
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Thunk! The sound woke me immediately from the weird dream I was having. It was a distinct ‘thunk’–the sound of something hitting the back porch. Check the clock–245am. Someone must be trying to get into the house. I got up, pulled on some clothes, and stepped out of the bedroom and checked the back door–still […]
v., To lose or destroy through idleness or sloth. “He forslugged his once profitable farm away.”
n., A romantic and sentimental film or book. “Who’s Nicholas Sparks?” “Oh, you know, that guy that writes all those weepies.”
“We know the fat content of elephant seal milk, for example. (It’s basically fatty fat with fat sauce.)” –from an article on Slate.com on the history of wet-nursing.
This week marked 4 months since we started working on this year’s VBS. Typically at the 4 month mark we are getting ready to perform, but we haven’t even created any props, sets, or costumes, and haven’t rehearsed a line. In fact, the performers don’t even have the script yet. The reason is this: despite […]
My daughter’s cat, Mr. Pucko, likes to kill things. He was so adorable when he killed his first bird that we wanted to commemorate it, so we made a little bird grave with a little bird tombstone. It seemed pretty funny at the time. Over the next couple of weeks he would bring back more […]
If you call someone because you require assistance with something, they may need some information from you. If your response to said inquiry is, ‘beats me,’ that is very rude–you should not be surprised if they in turn are rude to you–or if they do in fact beat you–because you deserve it. You wouldn’t accept such […]
n., one who attends church only on Christmas and Easter, or adj., ‘Chreaster dad,’ via Wes Molebash‘s Insert [IMG].
n., a romantic novel set in Amish country. The phrase is a play on the term ‘bodice ripper,’ which refers to a typical romance novel. Unlike most romance novels, known for their sexual content, bonnet rippers are entirely chaste–though they may contain as much as a kiss or two. Credit for coining the term goes to […]