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Friday, 28 September 2012
More Corny Old Religious Jokes
A diagnostic is someone who doesn't know whether there are two gods.
A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords. (Alan Wilson Watts)
Confession without repentance is just bragging. (Rev. Eugene Bolton)
Every time someone predicts the end of the world, God pushes the date back a little.
Freedom of religion includes freedom from religion.
Go thou and sin more creatively next time.
Heck is a place for people who don't believe in Gosh.
I am ready to meet my maker. Whether or not my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. (Winston Churchill)
I disbelieved in reincarnation in my last life, too.
If God is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
Lead me not into temptation, I can find it for myself.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. (G.K. Chesterton)
On the sixth day, God created the platypus. And God said: let's see the evolutionists try and figure this one out.
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy.
Corny old religious jokes Part One here.
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Whatever Happened To...? 17
Uncut moquette
balloon folding
belts
Bronco and Izal loo paper (they lingered for years)
catastrophe theory
cheese and wine parties
coathanger covers (crochet or ruched satin ribbon with a rose) If they did anything, how is it we can live without them? Actually, they may have stopped your clothes falling off the coathanger in which case they should be revived.
grimy buildings (They all got cleaned – imagine that!)
hair extensions that were sewn or glued to the hair
joints of beef/lamb (and the meat plates, cloches and carving knives that went with them)
office memos
paintings on black velvet
pale green onyx (20s-60s)
pin art (you can get a set on Amazon)
salmon pink (paint, cars, cakes)
shoe bags and handkerchief sachets (tissues have replaced hankies, and we put shoes in plastic bags – but shoe bags might be worth reviving. And you can get them on Amazon.)
static cling (caused by an outfit with layers made entirely of nylon, orlon, acrilan etc. When you removed the layers, static electricity stuck them together, and if you undressed in the dark you shot out sparks.)
stretchy furniture covers (in mock uncut moquette)
teatowels with “teatowel lore” (eg the “old Cornish prayer” about ghaisties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night)
uncut moquette (velvety material used on furniture)
wintergreen lozenges
More here, and links to the rest.
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