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Mondegreens for You for ChristmasYes, I have mondegreens for you! Aren't you thrilled? If you're not sure, you aren't alone. It's a word that sounds vaguely familiar , and might be something you'd like to get. I mean we have lots of "greens" at Christmas - trees, wreaths, apparel, and "monde," well doesn't that mean "world"? But ... huh? When Christmas carols burst upon the scene with their unfamiliar or vaguely familiar and sometimes archaic lyris (i.e., "to certain poor shepherds"), hark! (Listen!), we have the makings of a ...
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Christmas Quiz1. Which Christmas tree fact is NOT true? A. Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991. B. Nova Scotia leads the world in exporting Christmas trees. c. Franklin Pierce was the first president to decorate an official White House Christmas tree. D. The Christmas tree was chosen to represent this holy holiday because it's shape points the way to heaven. 1. Which Christmas tree fact is NOT true? D. The Christmas tree was chosen to represent this holy holiday because ...
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Songwriter Confessions #1Looking up this week from getting a reggae backing to sound like St Ann rather than St Felicity, I spotted the small dark mist in the usual corner behind the left monitor speaker. I have sometimes believed absolutely that this is my best muse, back from a pizza run to the outer starbelt. Or maybe just the golden ring around Uranus. Anyhoo...It seems to bring inspiration in a dark way: more Keith Richards than Cliff Richard, and I feel the urge to write something that involves leather, whips and ...
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The Gingerbread NightmareDo you ever see those beautiful gingerbread houses during the holiday seasons that are so beautiful? They look so simple, and look like such a fun project to do with the kids making gifts for grandma and grandpa. I could just feel it'.soft Christmas music in the background, the warm, spicy smell of gingerbread filling the air, the cozy warmth of the fire on a snowy day, and my children and I building these luscious goodies sure to bless our family and friends, and all inexpensively as ...
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Free Funny Animated Ecardsa href="http://www.christianet.com/christianecards/index.htm">Free funny animated ecards can be found on a variety of Internet websites simply by typing in a few key words on a search engine, and allowing that search engine to provide the Internet surfer with results. Free funny animated ecards can come in every subject area imaginable to tailor any special event or can be sent just to say hello. Ecards are electronic cards. All people have at one time or another received or sent a card ...
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To Pee or Not to Pee...I should've known it. I just should've known it. One day last week I was drinking some coffee and looking over the morning paper. It's the typical workday morning ritual for me, just as I'm sure it is for a lot of ya'll out there. Most times, I can get through the paper in about five or ten minutes. This time, because the paper had a couple of good, lengthy articles in it, I decided to drink a second cup of coffee. No big deal, I thought. You see, it takes me maybe twenty five minutes to get to ...
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Country Pastimes 3 Since the demise of foxhunting and hunting with dogs in the countryside, there are thousands of dispossessed toffs wandering around with nothing to do. To compensate we offer here the new shape of country activities. I was in the garden playing a guitar that attracted the attention of a small bird. It positioned itself overhead in the willow tree and proceeded to drop caterpillars from the leaves onto my head - feeding me as a reward for the music. It made me wonder how much wild or farm ...
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Bernie Ebbers and The Temptations Bernie Ebbers and the Temptations. If you don't give a heck about the man with the Bible in his hand. . . . --Mack Rice No. Not those temptations. I mean The Temptations. And I am not talking about whoever is touring under the name today. I am talking about Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendrick and David Ruffin. The real Temptations. Having all, except for Otis Williams, moved on . . . . I wonder if Bernie Ebbers, frowning and dour, white beard and cheap, stained ...
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MARCH MADNESS & MERRIMENT! Copyright "The Quipping Queen" 2005. MARCH MADNESS & MERRIMENT! -- Or, eccentric events and odd occasions to celebrate in March 2005 -- **Compiled by Lady Beatrice Blitterlees and edited by Lord Earl Craboon Let's see'it's March. According to the Calendar of Quips, it's definitely the third month of twelve, (which means we're only one quarter of our way through the 'Year of the Rooster'). If you're not the blessed big bird ruling the roost this year, then you'd better be really good at ...
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The One Great Sermon That Got AwayMost people don't realize ministers are obligated to prepare and preach one great sermon in their career. In looking over my record of sermons, I noticed many "good" sermons, but an obvious lack in the list of a single "great" sermon. Perusing my list brought back some marvelous memories. I smiled as I remembered each sermon and where I preached it. Of course, I'm at that stage of life where the old memory juices don't flow as deep as they once did. Occasionally, I ran across the odd sermon ...
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