Monday, 26 March 2007

Odd Words

Incidentally, reading in church on Sunday was the only time I've ever been called upon to say the word "sexual" in church outside of the confessional. I certainly never expected to say it during the bidding prayers, but times change I guess.
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Crushed said...

Aha, you noticed that too.
Just as you ntced the collections for victims of racial injustice, I guess?

Must admit, all for it.

11:15 pm
Bill Haydon said...

Can't say I noticed the collection, I was probably too busy actually carrying the collection to think about what it was for.

8:52 am
Alex said...

A good friend of mine once said the word "orgasm" to the pastors wife while standing in the church foyer. He was trying to reference a dessert called Oreo Ecstasy, but it came out a tad off.

Good stuff.

1:40 pm
Bill Haydon said...

alex: I've deleted both the resubmitted comment and the apology. No need to cram up my bulging comment boxes!

4:22 pm
Crushed said...

Wrong comment box, but what are your views on Betjeman?

6:11 pm
Shades said...

I gather John Cleese managed to say the F word at a funeral for another Pythonite from the Pulpit.

7:06 pm
Bill Haydon said...

CBI: I certainly don't find him offensive! I think he's a lot cleverer and more subtle than he's given credit for being. I'm not a huge fan, but I can see myself getting more into his tight rhythms (a la Larkin, but with different intent).

Delicolor: Yes, I'd heard of that. but given that it was a Python's funeral, one can kind of understand it....

8:13 pm
Bill Haydon said...

By the way, Alex: good to have such an exalted thinker here. I wouldn't dare butt into your and Matt's arguments!

8:14 pm
Alex said...

exalted thinker

???

black hole of metaphysical conversation would be more like it! Thanks for the welcome though.

I wouldn't dare butt into your and Matt's arguments!

Common now, do they really come off as arguments? ;-) It's an interesting exercise in sociology if nothing else. Though I still hold on to the shred of hope that we are getting somewhere.

8:22 pm
Bill Haydon said...

Well, Alex, I mean that I think you and Matt argue in the true sense: you exchange views, argue them intensely, and do not allow any animosity into it.

I had similar conversations at university. I had, usually to defend theism as a non-philosopher against my 3 atheist philosophy trained friends. Our conversations were cyclical and often abusive. In a way that's why I'd love to contribute to your discussions but feel I don't have anything to say, certainly nothing as considered or thoughtful as Matt and yourself.

8:29 pm
Alex said...

considered or thoughtful as Matt and yourself

Brother, we are just two meat heads shooting off our mouths. Jump on in anytime. It has a tendency to turn into the Matt and Alex show which often features a lot of reruns. A little fresh blood would be welcomed.

8:47 pm
Bill Haydon said...

Well if you say so, Alex; but my blood is far from fresh and my opinions owe more to Jung/Wordsworth than to analytic philosophy.

I'd still rather read you and Matt than AC Grayling repeating his old tired libels.

8:54 pm
Crushed said...

Oh, Wordsworth, bah!!
Just been having a go at home.
Cloeridge, yes.
Keats, yes.
Byron, yes.
Shelley, yes.
Blake, yes.

Wordsworth. No.

9:33 pm
Bill Haydon said...

Shelley - bleagh!

WW is the man.

9:50 pm
Crushed said...

Oh, daffodils, valleys, wandering over hill and dale..
s I'm sure Shelley would have said, 'Pshaw.'

Read Ozmandias again.

8:58 pm
Bill Haydon said...

Au contraire, CBI: read the Immortality Ode or Lyrical Ballads or the 1805 Prelude again - Shelley? Spirit of the Hour claptrap crap? You're joking!

"Was it for this"

is the coolest opening line of a poem ever.

9:28 pm

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