Re: #6002 from MARK T ENGLISH on Aug. 31, 1998

Re: "You be Jesus"

That was a good one, Mark, but I got it the first time. <G>

John
                            JOHN SALMON
        Interim Pastor, Brookings (OR) Presbyterian Church
  By the grace of God a follower of Christ--and a Presbyterian!
                         Sun, Aug 30, 1998

The worst thing about censorship is *************

Friends,

I'm looking for the list of Ten Reasons why people don't wash themselves
that are like unto resons people don't attend church.  I can remember a few
of them: 1.) I was forced to wash when I was young; 2.) It's so boring; 3.)
I'll let my children decide when they get older; 4.) All soap companies are
after is your money; 5.) etc. etc.

Thanks for any help.

Bob



Bob Scheuermann, ELCA Greater Milwaukee Synod Interim Minister living in
Kenosha currently serving Mt. Hope, West Allis, WI Tue, Sep  1, 1998,  6:53
am

Note deleted.

Re: #2354 from ROBERT SCHEUERMANN on Sep. 01, 1998

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 > I'm looking for the list of Ten Reasons why people don't wash themselves
 > that are like unto resons people don't attend church.  

Try note #4564.

John
                            JOHN SALMON
        Interim Pastor, Brookings (OR) Presbyterian Church
  By the grace of God a follower of Christ--and a Presbyterian!
                         Mon, Aug 31, 1998

Living in a fool's paradise is great fun until the rent comes due.

Re: #98.402238 from MARK T ENGLISH on Sep. 01, 1998

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98.402238 by MARK T ENGLISH, Sep. 01, 1998 at 23:14 Eastern 
PROBLEMS?

Re: #98.401402 from J CHRISTY RAMSEY on Sep. 01, 1998

Yes, I had problems with EcuComm. I thought the whole thing was stuck.
Apparently it kept going out until it got to my problem. Sorry for giving
you several. Fixed it now.

 Mark English...living in lovely Leola, PA, laboring in long term care
 for Luthercare in Lancaster County, and liking alliteration.

 home:Mark_T_English@ecunet.org            office:MarkE@luthercare.org

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Non-quoted portions Copyright 1998 - Christy Ramsey - COPYRIGHTS Note #20

 I respond to crisis out of my best self

Dear Eculaugh friends,

I went off of Eculaugh twice this summer while gone for vacation and
Continuing Ed.  I remember this past spring or summer the long joke about
God creating the heavens and earth and having to file Environmental Impact
Statements, etc.  and finally getting so frustrated he creates hell.  I
can't find the joke anymore, can I get a new copy or a reference to call it
up again?

Thanks,

Janet Adair Hansen

Re: #2358 from PORTALES FIRST on Sep. 02, 1998

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 > I remember this past spring or summer the long joke about God creating
 > the heavens and earth and having to file Environmental Impact
 > Statements, etc.  and finally getting so frustrated he creates hell.  I
 > can't find the joke anymore, can I get a new copy or a reference to call
 > it up again?

Try note #3591, Janet.

John
                            JOHN SALMON
        Interim Pastor, Brookings (OR) Presbyterian Church
  By the grace of God a follower of Christ--and a Presbyterian!
                         Wed, Sep  2, 1998

Nothing is so smiple that it can't get screwed up.

Subject: From ECULAUGH Web Page
   Jan Frankie 
   frankski@cyberhighway.net 
   For ECULAUGH And Presbyterians Today 

   this is funny.... love it....

From: WebForm <WebForm@ecunet.org>

   Do others tell you they get a script operation error everytime they open
eculaugh? This has been happening to me now for several weeks. It's nothing
major apparently, but it is a nuisance.
   
   Thanks for the site. I really enjoy the jokes. 

Re: #2361 from J CHRISTY RAMSEY on Sep. 04, 1998

This webpage comment was without an email address.

Any problems with the web pages from the faithful here? If so, please pass
along the name of the browser you are using, the version, and the exact
wording of the error message. Thanks for your support.

Subject: From ECULAUGH Web Page

   Pastor Cleveland B. "Cleve" Bishop
   cbbishop@raton.com 

   What does "ROTFL" mean?

Re: #727 from INTERNET on Sep. 03, 1998

Subject: From ECULAUGH Web Page
   Pastor Cleveland B. "Cleve" Bishop 
   cbbishop@raton.com 

 >    What does "ROTFL" mean?

Rolling On The Floor Laughing....

Re: #98.409558 from MARK T ENGLISH on Sep. 06, 1998

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98.409558 by MARK T ENGLISH, Sep. 06, 1998 at 16:13 Eastern 
REPEATS IN ECULAUGH

Re: #98.409349 from J CHRISTY RAMSEY on Sep. 06, 1998

My repetition comes from an address glitch via EcuComm.
I can't figure out which is the bad one from the log, so I go searching on
my own.
I tried to delete at host, but got an Illegal call function.

I *think* I have it figured out now. Sorry to give you more work. I
appreciate your monitoring on this.

 Mark English...living in lovely Leola, PA, laboring in long term care
 for Luthercare in Lancaster County, and liking alliteration.

 home:Mark_T_English@ecunet.org            office:MarkE@luthercare.org

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 Copyright 1998 Christy Ramsey (COPYRIGHTS #20) www.bright.net/~jramsey

Forwarded Copy of #98.412637 From J Christy Ramsey, Wed Sep 9 at 12:46a

J Christy Ramsey
	I don't see what's not GOOD about the submission I made to Eculaugh.  It came
right out of the newspaper and applies to daily life in the USA.  It made me
laugh at the irony.  
	So many of my submissions lately have been rejected while you keep repeating
VERY OLD, mushy, tripe!!
	I've enjoyed ECULAUGH in the past and circulated many of the postings among
family and friends.  But, lately your "filter" seems to be more of a masher.
	Do my submissions have to be understandable by a 3 year old to be acceptable?
 I think we can all appreciate the irony in the UP wire story of the Athiest
who wanted to put "the fear of God" into his teenaged son.  Not that we'd want
to promote his methods, but the irony is still there, and we are an adult
audience that surely knows right from wrong.
			---Linda
------------------------------

Re: #6023 from LINDA KRAFT on Sep. 08, 1998

The submission did not meet the GOOD requirement of ECULAUGH. The "Good"
part of Good, Clean, Religious, Humor means "Good to Others". A little bite
may be necessary for humor especially when one is laughing at one's own
errors, but humor that in the moderator's opinion would offend many who
receive our publication is removed and returned.

   vvv Your Note Returned vvv
 
6023 (of 6024) LINDA KRAFT Sep. 08, 1998 at 11:44 Eastern (639 characters)
  

From:  "News of the Weird" UP Syndicate column by Chuck Shepherd, September
9, 1998, Hartford Courant

"Changing His Tune:  In June, Rob Sherman, prominent anti-religion media
activist around Chicago (known as The Atheist Guy), was charged with
misdemeanor domestic battery for allegedly punching his 16-year-old son. 
Sherman told reporters he was disciplining the boy for refusing to do his
chores and merely wanted to 'put the fear of God into him.'"

Linda Kraft, Pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Stafford Springs, CT
Secretary, Slovak Zion Synod, ELCA
Phone: 860/684-2982, FAX: 860/684-7571
  
   ^^^ End of Your Note ^^^

 Non quoted portions Copyright (c) 1998 Christy Ramsey. Not to be reproduced.
 See "COPYRIGHTS" note #20

Linda Kraft, Pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Stafford Springs, CT
Secretary, Slovak Zion Synod, ELCA
Phone: 860/684-2982, FAX: 860/684-7571

Re: #2366 from LINDA KRAFT on Sep. 09, 1998

I got the post before it was withdrawn. I concur in the dissent.

 Peace!          
 Neil

 Neil D. Cowling, Pastor, Kirk of Our Savior, Westland, MI
 16:18       Wed, Sep  9, 1998      ncowling@mich.com

From: "J. Christy Wareham" <cwareham@scican.net>
To: <j.christy.ramsey@pcusa.org>

FYI: I'm pretty sure this comes from Ann Lamotte's book, "Bird by Bird." 

If attribution's a concern.

>Subject: From ECULAUGH Web Page
>   vera 
>   robsdl@aol.com 
>   For ECULAUGH And Presbyterians Today 
>
>   do you want to know how to make God laugh?
>   Tell God your plans. 

I do remove a lot of ironic posts that some of our more enlightened?
adult readers enjoy. Perhaps I need to warn folks about that in the intro.

Irony and it's companion, sarcasm, are not appreciated by some. Most of the
complaints come from the great outside who read them on the web page.
While adults might know right from wrong, ECULAUGH is not advertised as an
adult only site. (Might be fun to make some ECULAUGH XXX banner ads
though...)

ECULAUGH is pretty bland. Consider that ECULAUGH is allowed out on the web
and has a link from the Presbyterian USA pages and ECUNET page only because
the webmaster knows/trusts that I (and my Dad) will keep it bland. Bland is
what we do best! <g>

News of the Weird probably should be in News of the Weird meeting, email
lists, web pages, newspaper, FunnyTimes magazine, etc. and not ECULAUGH.
While News of the Weird isn't VERY OLD, it is repeated perhaps more than
ECULAUGH posts.

I do not agree with your assumption that something in the newspaper is
automatically good. Perhaps I misunderstand you.

There is old stuff on ECULAUGH. (Someone sent in a telegram joke!) Yet a
few of the "old" are new to me and every one is new to someONE of the 1,000
or so hits (people?) the web page gets every day. Sometimes I let an old
one get by that is new to a couple instead of letting a day go blank or
nearly so. Blankness is old to everyone.

The web page does have a long list of old stuff not to send, specific
recommendations for additions to the list would be helpful.

Linda, thanks for your comments and your addition NEIL. Thanks also for
posting them in this meeting, I know it is an extra step and I appreciate
the effort to accomadate me.


 Copyright 1998 Christy Ramsey (COPYRIGHTS #20) www.bright.net/~jramsey

Reply from Linda Kraft to #2370 From J Christy Ramsey, Wed Sep 9 at 6:28p

Christy,
	Thank you for the expanded, personalized response.  It helps to explain the
criteria more fully.  Now that I've had some time to cool off, I'm more
capable of hearing and understanding your thoughtful comments.
			---Linda

--- Original Note #2370 From J Christy Ramsey, Wed Sep 9 at 6:28p ---

>I do remove a lot of ironic posts that some of our more enlightened?
>adult readers enjoy. Perhaps I need to warn folks about that in the intro.
>
>Irony and it's companion, sarcasm, are not appreciated by some. Most of the
>complaints come from the great outside who read them on the web page.
>While adults might know right from wrong, ECULAUGH is not advertised as an
>adult only site. (Might be fun to make some ECULAUGH XXX banner ads
>though...)
>
>ECULAUGH is pretty bland. Consider that ECULAUGH is allowed out on the web
>and has a link from the Presbyterian USA pages and ECUNET page only because
>the webmaster knows/trusts that I (and my Dad) will keep it bland. Bland is
>what we do best! <g>
>
>News of the Weird probably should be in News of the Weird meeting, email
>lists, web pages, newspaper, FunnyTimes magazine, etc. and not ECULAUGH.
>While News of the Weird isn't VERY OLD, it is repeated perhaps more than
>ECULAUGH posts.
>
>I do not agree with your assumption that something in the newspaper is
>automatically good. Perhaps I misunderstand you.
>
>There is old stuff on ECULAUGH. (Someone sent in a telegram joke!) Yet a
>few of the "old" are new to me and every one is new to someONE of the 1,000
>or so hits (people?) the web page gets every day. Sometimes I let an old
>one get by that is new to a couple instead of letting a day go blank or
>nearly so. Blankness is old to everyone.
>
>The web page does have a long list of old stuff not to send, specific
>recommendations for additions to the list would be helpful.
>
>Linda, thanks for your comments and your addition NEIL. Thanks also for
>posting them in this meeting, I know it is an extra step and I appreciate
>the effort to accomadate me.
>
>
> Copyright 1998 Christy Ramsey (COPYRIGHTS #20) << www.bright.net/~jramsey >>


Linda Kraft, Pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Stafford Springs, CT
Secretary, Slovak Zion Synod, ELCA
Phone: 860/684-2982, FAX: 860/684-7571

Re: #2371 from LINDA KRAFT on Sep. 09, 1998

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 > Christy,
 > Thank you for the expanded, personalized response.  It helps to explain
 > the criteria more fully.  Now that I've had some time to cool off, I'm
 > more capable of hearing and understanding your thoughtful comments.
 > ---Linda

Yes, thanks, Christy--but I agreed with her the first time. <G>

John
                            JOHN SALMON
        Interim Pastor, Brookings (OR) Presbyterian Church
  By the grace of God a follower of Christ--and a Presbyterian!
                         Wed, Sep  9, 1998

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
research.

Forwarded Copy of Eculaugh #6031 From Anne Wilson, Wed Sep 9 at 9:27p

Now, THIS is CUTE!!  (And I'm a cat person myself.)   ---Linda
------------------------------

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How many dogs does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Answer:

Pitbull - Make me!

Yorkie - I can't reach the stupid lamp.

 ......

Linda Kraft, Pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Stafford Springs, CT
Secretary, Slovak Zion Synod, ELCA
Phone: 860/684-2982, FAX: 860/684-7571