fun at the chinese buffet

Here's a fun game I was introduced to early last summer, and it can only be played at the end of your meal at a Chinese restaurant. It's called "...in the bathroom."

So how's it played? At the end of the meal everyone cracks open their fortune cookie and reads aloud their fortune, adding 'in the bathroom' at the end. It makes for some great laughter at the end of what is the heaviest meal you'll likely eat that day.

Case in point. A buddy (the other E) and me went to a Chinese buffet for lunch yesterday. My fortune?

Your efforts are budding - results will soon appear

...IN THE BATHROOM!

HA! Get it?

...

I reckon ya had to be there.

better yet, don't tEach them to read

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

--Ray Bradbury

Isn't this where we already are? Government education is less about teaching than it is about indoctrination. Public education graduates more ignorants today than ... pick your own metaphor.

Here's another great quote:

"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools."

The Apostle Paul, Romans 1:22

Don't know that book? You've proved my point...

"Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened."

national day of prayer

Managing to put a lot of babies to bed this week I'm taking tomorrow off. It being a National Day of Prayer, I need to spend some time on my knees. It's a shame I actually need an excuse to pray. Normally I wouldn't even mention such matters, but no one reads this blog; no one cares, so I'm bragging to no one.

I'd go to the 1st baptist Church's prayer breakfast at 7:30am... but that's awfully early in the morning, and I'm not sure I want to be eating anything that early. The church I attend has midweek service on Thursday evenings so this works out well.

bEware the man of one book...

--Thomas Aquinas

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black white left right juxtoposed... spEak & be quiet

Don't let me confuse you, only let me love you when and how I choose and feel...


Learn To Be Quiet

You need not do anything.
Remain sitting at your table and listen.
You need not even listen, just wait.
You need not even wait,
just learn to be quiet, still and solitary.
And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked.
It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

--Franz Kafka