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“And now for *the* most passive aggressive and oddly specific prayer intentions you have ever heard in church”

Awesome thread.





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Slipped through the spam filter because it's from a hijacked Gmail account. Witten by a definite native English speaker, of course. :P
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:doh: DIY version of the Indian call center scams. I wonder if that phone number is working :cantlook:

And while we are laughing, please go and buy a handful Walmart gift cards worth $100000 each at the 7-11 around your corner :twisted:
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I loathe how wedding parties and photographers take over public spaces with no regard for anyone else.
I'm a church musician who has played many weddings. Wedding photographers are not my favorite.
My dad retired from the wedding photo biz 25 years ago..
Let's just say the current crop doesn't quite do it the way he did - for 45 years..
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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tek wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:53 am
I loathe how wedding parties and photographers take over public spaces with no regard for anyone else.
I'm a church musician who has played many weddings. Wedding photographers are not my favorite.
My dad retired from the wedding photo biz 25 years ago..
Let's just say the current crop doesn't quite do it the way he did - for 45 years..
One saved the day at my brother's wedding. They had rehearsed with mothers coming forward, taking a light from the candelabras and lighting their family candles. However, somebody neglected to inform the ushers or assign the role, that the candelabras needed to be lit. Mothers came forth to light candles from unlit candles. The photographer was up there so pulled out his lighter and saved the wedding. It did not, however, save the marriage (which actually turned out to be a very good thing).

If you know of wedding photographers, please let them know that organists are not barroom piano players and we do not like playing 20 questions while trying to play the prelude. Also, don't move stuff around in a way that blocks the organist's view (to the entrance, and the altar area).

Yeah, the tripod on my organ bench? That' ain't gonna work.

ETA: To be completely fair, there are some organists who can be raging assholes. I have checked my tongue once or twice in organist FB groups.
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This appears to be the reason -

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Horrifying. :crying:
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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about 50 years ago or so, a friend of mine who was a Border Patrol agent found, I think it was 16 dead bodies and found 8 or 9 survivors near an abandoned truck in the middle of the desert near the Arizona/Sonora Border. The coyotes had just driven the truck across the border and abandoned it and its the human cargo in 100+ degrees without water.
Has everybody heard about the bird?
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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So a...thing happened with the RadioShack Twitter account today:
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Luckily this is teh interwebs where nothing ever dies.
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bill_g wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:25 am Be very very quiet, but I only have to pack seven more lunches, and get seven more goodbye kisses in the morning until I am retired. Mums the word.
One more goodbye kiss, and one more client meeting to attend. Then my exit interview. I'm not even going to pack a lunch.
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raison de arizona wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:10 pm So a...thing happened with the RadioShack Twitter account today:
What is this Radio Shack of which you speak? :confuzzled:
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neonzx wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:48 am
raison de arizona wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:10 pm So a...thing happened with the RadioShack Twitter account today:
What is this Radio Shack of which you speak? :confuzzled:
Ah, yes, didn't they become The Shack? I never understood that.
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I was notified today that my eldest son is getting married tomorrow. No hoopla, just a Justice of the Peace and get it done kind of thing. She’s ummm, an Interesting choice, but they’ve been together now over 15 years so there it is. She’s had 4 children, not that she ever had custody of any of them for very long. And she’s been fixed since her last one came along, thankfully long before my son did. I will be there and hug them both on their happy day. I do love my son very much so I wish the very best for them both! :bunny:
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“Life inside the Dutch earthquake zone”:
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“The gas that made the Netherlands rich has left towns and villages falling apart. Extraction of this rich resource from the northern region of Groningen has caused thousands of earthquakes and reduced entire neighbourhoods to building sites resembling disaster zones. It was meant to end in 2024, but now the war in Ukraine means even that hope is crumbling.”
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bill_g wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:15 am
bill_g wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:25 am Be very very quiet, but I only have to pack seven more lunches, and get seven more goodbye kisses in the morning until I am retired. Mums the word.
One more goodbye kiss, and one more client meeting to attend. Then my exit interview. I'm not even going to pack a lunch.
Retirement Day 1 -

I'm up early because I'm recovering from yesterday.

The only thing my retirement party lacked was a wet bar. Company policy. I knew there were going to be a few people because of the venue (local hotel / conference center). I was not expecting this many. I think I outnumbered the Trump inauguration by this much (fingers pinched together). Holy Cow Batman. I was overwhelmed. I have a stack of cards I haven't opened yet. I have a lot of thank you notes to write. I had to really keep it together to not cry when speaking to them. And all the stories people told from our times together. (face palm) Some of them I had forgotten (the stories, not the people).

I was absolutely humbled by it all. Still am. A career well spent.
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bill_g wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:40 am
The only thing my retirement party lacked was a wet bar. Company policy.
So there was enough blow and hookers to go around then?
Has everybody heard about the bird?
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keith wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:47 am
bill_g wrote: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:40 am
The only thing my retirement party lacked was a wet bar. Company policy.
So there was enough blow and hookers to go around then?
Absolutely. The good stuff too. Booty babes and uncut Columbian. Eyeballs a poppin everywhere. And they had Lorde on loop (We could be royyaaals).
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Congrats, bill! (On retirement, not on thé hookers and, you know.) Why, whatever will you do with your days now? :daydreaming:
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Congratulations, sir!
Out from under. :thumbsup:
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Good for you!
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