When greeting other students, co-workers, "Hello, faa-rend" (friend).
When the copier jams or computer crashes, stike it with the heel of your hand and shout, "Heeee-ole" (heal).
If this is not effective, shout, "Come OUT foul spirits!"
Once the copier is unjammed or computer rebooted, "Pa-raise (praise) God; thank ya, Jeeeeeeeeeeee-sus."
During planning meetings shout, "Name it and claim it, fa-riend!"
While standing by the office vending machine, "Faa-rend, if you will just buy me a cup of coffee—yes, just one cup—the Lord will ba-less (bless) and reward you ten fold."
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Monday, November 01, 2004
Talk Like a TV Evangelist Day
In the spirit of Talk Like a Pirate Day, Jim Watkins proposes Talk Like a TV Evangelist Day and offers these tips: