David, did you even see that I posted pictures of my Halloween costume? One might think you skipped and/or skimmed.

I neither skipped nor skimmed. And did quite admire your costume. You look very hot as retrogirl. However, I think I saw the link while looking over JZ's shoulder so I didn't have the chance to reply at that time.

I'd like to see more churches use this one:

[spoken] Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad.
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle,
Don't grumble, give a whistle!
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...
[sung]

...always look on the bright side of life!
whistle

Always look on the bright side of life...
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,

When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps,
Just purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And... always look on the bright side of life...

whistle
Come on!
Always look on the bright side of life...
whistle

For life is quite absurd,
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow!
Forget about your sin -- give the audience a grin,
Enjoy it -- it's the last chance anyhow!

So always look on the bright side of death!
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
Life's a piece of shit,
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true,
You'll see it's all a show,
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you!

And always look on the bright side of life...
whistle
Always look on the bright side of life
whistle

David, did you even see that I posted pictures of my Halloween costume? One might think you skipped and/or skimmed.

I neither skipped nor skimmed. And did quite admire your costume. You look very hot as retrogirl. However, I think I saw the link while looking over JZ's shoulder so I didn't have the chance to reply at that time.

My ego thanks you.

Dude, this time change fucks me up. Gotta go to bed right now. My body thinks it's 11:00.

Teppy, I love the costume, and I always love the cherry dress.

Today I have carved a pumpkin and put a fire out in the kitchen.

I have yet to shower.

Wow! I am suitably impressed, Aims.

All I did was tutor people, slightly increasing the sum total of mathematical knowledge in the world. Very slightly.

I also had coffee, much earlier. It is not helping me now. I am ver' gronkish, and will soon sleep. Mmm. Sleep.

Thanks! I knew where the extinguisher was AND USED IT!

Teppy, I love the costume, and I always love the cherry dress.

Thanks! It's getting close to the time the cherry dress needs to be retired/repurposed, though. It predates the LA F2F, which was....2003? And I've worn it to many a shindig, but the fabric is getting pretty obviously faded. I love the dress, but there is a point at which one starts to look shabby and not sassy.

And that last statement made me feel like Meg March, from Little Women.

I'm actually not sure I'd agree with my husband on this one--at least, I'd say the English church I attended, while borderline happy-clappy, didn't strike me as a bad re-tread of American evangelicalism.

Two different towns, I guess. And the church I went to wasn't that happy-clappy. They were just your classical evangelical Anglican places with your mix of religion and social activism.

And FWIW, these days it seems like one or two British musicians are creating all the (often bad) contemporary Christian choruses getting sung to death in the American church. The culture flows both ways, IOW.

It's kinda like Bollywood in a way -- we send them films, they remix them with Indian culture and subplots, and then they come back to America. The oddity is that American Christians see what comes from Britain with authority, and it's not as well filtered as it should be.

I'd like to see more churches use this one:

I'd love to see our church use it, but I cringe at the thought of the downtempo minor key emo-sung-by-John-Mayer stylings of the ensemble touching it. It would be... just wrong.

Daniel, I prefer

All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot;
Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous, All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous, The Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet, Each beastly little squid.
Who made the spikey urchin? Who made the sharks? He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous, All pox both great and small.
Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all.

Aimee, at least tell me it wasn't the cat that caught on fire.