Take a close look at the guy in the bottom picture. You may recognise him from a picture on his blog. His much younger picture. He sort of still looks like that. Close enough anyway.
So Claudia and I went to a Baptist service last night. A full length Baptist service. Very nice people but they could easily compete with the Catholics. Especially when they have a guest speaker. One that really likes to talk. But guess what? He's a really good speaker. Like Claudia said, "it's like he was talking to us and not at us".
John did really good. You would think he's been doing this a long time. WAIT! He has. He told me he won a public speaking contest against a bunch of high schoolers when he was 9 years old. That was a looong time ago. But he's only gotten better with age. He's really good.
The disappointing part? Only one magic trick. Of course I had to look it up on the net to see how it was done. And after looking at it, I see how it works but not why. WAIT! You don't know exactly what I'm talking about do you? Sorry, if I told you I'd have to kill you. (Somebody used that line on me once. Who was that?)
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thanks for stopping by, Mike. As always, it was good to see Claudia.
wv: aggincer--what the schoolboy says to the Paddle Master..."Do it aggincer!"
Wow! It must have been really interesting to watch John in person. And he sounds like a fantastic speaker from your raving review.
I know you told me John was going to be there....but I forgot.
We would have enjoyed going.
Darn it, sometimes I wish I didn't live way out west. I miss ALL the good stuff ;-(
I don't think it was me who said -
Sorry, if I told you I'd have to kill you-
I'd be much more inclined to slap you around the head with a wet fish...
Well, drat...now I will have to kill you. But no, ammunition is too expensive any more, so I'll just stare evilly at you for a while, how's that?
It was like "old home week," because lots of people there went to the same high school as Mike. Wait a minute! When he asked one of them, "What year did you graduate?" , maybe it was that person who then said to Mike, "I'd tell you, but then I'd have to..." As I stood by smiling, I was wondering, have to what? Sing the football fight song? Push a freshman into a locker and slam the door? Ride around Tower Grove Park in the backseat of Weird Harold's car, with a female mannequin from the front window of somebody's old man's store, wearing nothing but a bra? (The mannequin, of course, not Mike!)Getting killed might be easier, but definitely boring by comparison. Hey! this blog was about John, though, so I must say John is remarkable. I think he would be mega-successful as a senior pastor of a church, but John loves being an evangelist, and that's good, because he's great at it, and it's not just his magic makes him unique. He makes the Bible come alive to regular people, just as if he was talking to every individual in the congregation one-on-one. Bandit, we will get him back here so you can get "John-a-fied," too.
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