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Del.icio.us links for October 22, 2006

October 22nd, 2006 @ 2:24 am by Rich | Share This | 4 comments
Filed under: Links

Rich's Delicious LinksThese are a few of the things I've recently found interesting, but don't have the time to properly blog on. I don't necessarily like or agree with the links here, I just think they're interesting. And just in case you do, too, enjoy.

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F-bombs, poets, and church. Or, “When church goes intentionally awry!”

November 12th, 2005 @ 6:44 am by Rich | Share This | 2 comments
Filed under: Podcast/Media, Things going awry!, Religion, Links, Random Miscellany

First, I blogged about Blake Bergstrom and his hilarious attempt to have Lot say “pitch his tents.” Then we had John Ortberg entreating: “Let everything that has breasts, praise the Lord,” along with William Willimon’s story of an evangelist unintentionally preaching the shorts off a church-skipper.

On the time-worn religious use of the word F---

The obscenity f--- is a very old word and has been considered shocking from the first, though it is seen in print much more often now than in the past. Its first known occurrence, in code because of its unacceptability, is in a poem composed in a mixture of Latin and English sometime before 1500. The poem, which satirizes the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England, takes its title, “Flen flyys,” from the first words of its opening line, “Flen, flyys, and freris,” that is, “fleas, flies, and friars.” The



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