Monday, August 5, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
You have two shirts? One belongs to you. The other belongs to the man who has no shirt.
Did you know that "Floyd's Barber Shop" existed before Mayberry? Floyd Munson (different actor, Arthur Q. Bryan) was one of the Jolly Boys on the Great Gildersleeve radio program and he ran "Floyd's Barber Shop."
Listen to Gildy and Floyd and the Jolly Boys discuss names for the baby girl Gildy found in his car in the grocery store parking lot...
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Direct link >
Page that gives some history to Kraft's "Name the Baby Contest" of 1948 >
(Just as an aside: If you listen to a lot of Old Time Radio like this, you'll hear plot lines, names, jokes and other things that made their way into television where they were introduced to a whole new audience (like me) that never heard them before.)
[2013-07-31]
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I recently made a reference to Hogan's Heroes among my coworkers. No one under 30 heard of it before. And most of the same group hadn't seen Slim Pickens ride a nuclear bomb out of a B-52 in Dr Strangelove.I suspect they may not have heard of Floyd's Barber Shop, either, which is kind of like not knowing who was marooned on Gilligan's Island or discovered electricity with a key tied to a kite tail, and other important stuff like that.
[2013-08-01]
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"You have two shirts in your closet? One belongs to you. The other belongs to the man who has no shirt."
--St Ambrose of Milan
Learn more about St Ambrose here >
[2013-08-01]
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Saturday, August 3, 2013
A Life Group of One
Today's lesson for life groups of one... Get a job doing what you like and that others like you doing.
I have both.
(What the heck's a life group, anyway? Every once in a while we tire of old labels and old ways and reinvent them, so we do away with "Sunday school" and create "life groups." Must be better. It's about life. And it's not school anymore. School is hard. It's just a group. How hard can that be?)
[2013-07-26]
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We're always making decisions our successors will ridicule. Let's hope they'll be more charitable to us than we are to our predecessors.
--Clarence 0ddbody
[7/8/2013]
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Some things you just keep doing...
... even when you're too tired and don't feel like it, because there's strength and renewal in perseverance. You pray and say Good Morning and Thank You and You're Welcome and at the end of the day collapse in bed and hope some of the effort is still hanging in the air tomorrow because you're tired of hearing the sound of your own voice and wondering if anyone's listening.
[2013-05-01]
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Friday, August 2, 2013
There's nothing quite as unattractive as an academic defending his credentials.
I'm not sure why all the kerfuffle over this.
Lots of Christians have written books on other religious figures. I think there is a bit of "because you're Moslem, you have nothing to tell me about a historical Jew," or, "Jesus takes it on the chin every day, let's turn the tables for a moment."
And I understand that. Aslan may have some insight to be sure (he's a former evangelical Christian after all), but I'm skeptical that he could be sufficiently unbiased to interest me. I have that sort if internal dialog every time I pick up a book by any author: Do I care what the writer thinks? If I don't, I don't read it.
(FWIW, from the Amazon reviews - both good an bad - there's nothing here that hasn't already been covered better by others. The novelty is that it was written by a Muslim and former Christian, so perhaps this is like reading a vegetarian review of McDonald's - interesting but incomplete, unless of course you're a vegetarian.)
Reza Aslan with Lauren Green on Fox News
[2013-07-31]]
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A little perspective....
But there's always the other side of the coin, isn't there?
Jesus was a Jew. How would the Moslem world respond to a Moslem that converted to Judaism and wrote a book on Mohamed?
Yeah, there's a fatwah for that.
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I don't mind seeing responses to Fox News motivated by a sense of fairness, but let's stow the incredulity and understand the sensitivities that led to the conversation in the first place.
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What's really strange? That Lauren Green is being widely depicted as "attacking" Islam because she challenged a Moslem's understanding of Christianity. I think the conversation (if not the tone) is a good one. And vice versa.
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Denying history to support a belief...Too many folks are not content to believe what they want, but need to change history to support what they want to believe[1]. Unfortunately, desperation can be just as loud and effective as the truth.
For example: "Jesus Christ, never got crucified, nor was he ever killed." >
If you're going to use someone else's holy book against them, at least make an effort to know what you're talking about.
[2013-06-30]
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For the record, I juxtaposed Reza Aslan with answering-christianity.com to provide some contrast; I am not in any way equating them or suggesting one taints or enhances the other. I wrote them a month apart.
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Introspective self-critique: That is a very good sentence.
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Thursday, August 1, 2013
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
The last time I saw this was in 1st grade at Vernondale Elementary School in Millcreek, PA; that would have been 1968-ish. I stumbled across it by accident.
Walt Disney - Toot, Whistle, Plunk And Boom - 1953
[2013-07-25]]
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Circle of Fear
I was not allowed to watch this show, but I did sneak a peek one Friday night (IIRC) when Aunt Berniece was visiting with Mom, and Linda and Barbie were occupied with dolls and tea sets and such. I don't recall where Tom was.
I anticipated in these few fleeting moments to be utterly terrified, but I think it was too esoteric or tedious for my 11-year-old brain and I distinctly remember finding it very uninteresting.
Circle of Fear TV Show Opening Theme (1973)
[2013-07-26]
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Eddie Cantor drives me bananas.I've been listening to a bit of him out of London on PumpkinFM and I don't think I could even have enjoyed him even once a week. He retains the frenetic energy of the silent era without any restraint of the talkies.
[2013-07-25]
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