The Amayzin' Jesus

I liked Bobby's Sunday school presentation; I was laughing *and* cringing. Good timing, too, since Lent started the next day. Remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in this together. ---Red Green

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I thought his idea on making Jesus interesting was a good one, too. And he had his Bible references as well. I can't see why his Sunday School teacher was so upset. I'd be proud if some of our Church's Youth Group members came up with something like that.

Paul

On 17 Feb 1999 23:12:42 GMT, [email] (Paul Tomko) wrote:

I'm guessing she was upset because he was comparing miracles to parlor tricks.

This is TX, afterall. (No insults implied).

Jim Pank wrote in article ...

cringing. Good

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I kinda liked his last line "And for my next miracle, I will require a large wooden cross and two volunteers.......".

Krutch

On 18 Feb 1999 08:03:15 GMT, "Johnny Rhyne" wrote:

That one really put me over the edge.

One of the funniest sitcom scenes on TV since Dharma and Jane went shopping for the prom dress.

On 18 Feb 1999 08:03:15 GMT, "Johnny Rhyne" wrote:

I found the prior Sunday School scene even more hilarious -- when the teacher is reading them the 23rd Psalm and closes it with "...growled the bear." As if it were being told as a kid's fairy tale or something.

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Actually, some of the 18th century attacks by rationalists on Christianity attempted to explain away the New Testament miracles by describing how they might have been accomplished as magic tricks. Can't remember the name of the French source, but it even speculated that Jesus could have used inflatable bladders tied to his shoes to "walk on water".

So Bobby was treading on more dangerous historical ground than he realized.

It just shows that everything is open to interpretation. Remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in this together. ---Red Green

Jim Pank wrote:

I agree. I thought that segment was a nice dig at religion and doubts about Jesus' divinity.

Matt Lupo

Paul Tomko wrote:

] In article , ] Rilchiam wrote: ]>I liked Bobby's Sunday school presentation; I was laughing *and* cringing. Good ]>timing, too, since Lent started the next day. ]>Remember, I'm pulling for you; we're all in this together. ---Red Green ] ] I thought his idea on making Jesus interesting was a good one, too. And he ] had his Bible references as well. I can't see why his Sunday School teacher ] was so upset. I'd be proud if some of our Church's Youth Group members came ] up with something like that.

It looked like it was the minister that was most upset (other than Hank and Peggy), and who gave the signal to the teacher to put a stop to it, which got her caught in the middle. She did look a little confused about the flowers and progressively more disturbed by the next two "miracles", though. The best reaction was the little kid clapping and the parent shushing the kid up. It would get a more mixed reaction in our church, I think, with about half thinking it was great and the other half horrified. But then that's about the spot to shoot for.

Dooley's performance was straight off the bookmark or wallet card available in almost every hospital gift shop and religious bookstore in America.

There was a minor flaw in Peggy's Fat Albert impersonation that inspired Bobby: "We the people" is the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution, not of the Declaration of Independence, but that of course is Peggy's trademark, being just a little off on most everything. Is there a list somewhere of all of her near misses?

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I love how she always says in spanish, "Me lamo Peggy Hill" instead of "Me llamo Peggy Hill". She always gets the strangest looks. What makes it funnier is that I know people who have a lot of confidence in themselves in subjects in which they appear foolish to others.

Paul

Exactly! I'm sure thats there intent. If you know nothing about Spanish then perhaps her "me lamo Peggy Hill" sounds just fine. I've had a little espanol (hey I don't know how to place that little curvy thing over the n hell I forgot what it's even called) so I'm aware that me llamo (as in yahmo or quickly pronounce the l as in lyahmo) is closer to the correct pronunciation. It happens a lot with foreign language. People can be full of themselves and even believe they are impressing others just b/c they may know what the words mean but at the same time they are not aware how important the pronunciation is.

arch stanton

arch stanton wrote:

She should stay far, far away from Chinese, then. ;)

Matt Lupo

arch stanton wrote:

Absolutely. When I was teaching Spanish to high-school students, they kept thinking I was being picky by considering the placement of accents to be part of the spelling, and taking off points for leaving them out (not at all times, but at times when spelling was going to count and/or when the accented word was active vocabulary where we had JUST gone over why the accent mattered), or insisting they learn whether a word was masculine or feminine at the same time they learned the word.

One day, just to make my point, I wrote on the board the words el pap� el papa la papa and asked if these were more or less the same... as usual, they said "yes," at which point I pointed out I thought there was a LOT of difference among

the dad the Pope and the potato.

They didn't protest quite so much after that little talk. ;->

Andrea

P.S. The wiggly line ~) over the n is called a "tilde" and there are various ways to make it. One of the most workable, on PCs at least, is to use the number keypad while holding the Alt key and type 164 (Alt+164) �. There are faster ways that are less common among various computer types, such as choosing the "international" keyboard layout. I find those little codes are more likely to work wherever I go. The tilde, all by itself, is just below the Esc key on my 104-key keyboard -- but you likely knew that part. --AR

Paul Tomko wrote:

I like how she rolls her "r"s whenever she says anything even remotely Spanish sounding.

Matt Lupo

My favorite part was when Peggy reprimanded Bobby and told him that he was going to have to honk at every bumper sticker they pass. ---------- In article , R J Valentine wrote:

Rachel L. Brendzel wrote in message ...

That whole scene in the car was funny. Hank's question: "You know what this means, dontcha? We're going to be in the newsletter. I don't want to be in the 'Thoughts and Prayers' of anyone!"

Kristin

Rachel L. Brendzel wrote:

I liked when Hank said he didn't want to be on everyone's list of prayers and concerns.

Matt Lupo

I thought that was funny, too. I also liked that voice Bobby used. I'm still laughing!!!