"To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
"What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!"
"
- Psalm 30:8-10, English Standard Version
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
So, let's play a little game in this post for the holidays, if you're willing. I'll type a sentence, and you follow it with a sentence of your own. The sentences can be about anything, but each one must contain one word from the previous sentence. Just one word. Anyone can join in as often as he likes. The only other rule (aside from those of public decency) is that a participant may not follow himself.
Sound fun? Diverting? Something the Thinklings would do? All right then, I'll begin.
"Have a holly, jolly Christmas" may be my second least preferred seasonal rerun, close on the heels of "Santa Baby."
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Comments on "Blog Parlor Game":
2. Lars Walker
- 12/19/2007 9:26 am EST
I went fishing for trout, but accidentally hooked another fisherman.
3. Phil
- 12/19/2007 10:42 am EST
My Friday trout tastes a lot like steak, but who am I to complain?
9. omie
- 12/19/2007 2:42 pm EST
His sometimes mistress thinks, pauses to read the moon, then signs the harsh letter, picks up her baby,(who doesn't complain about the hooked trout) and leaves by the back door.
10. Lars Walker
- 12/19/2007 2:43 pm EST
"Oh Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn."
12. Phil
- 12/19/2007 3:35 pm EST
"Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back."
(Omie, that's a hilarious sentence in #9.)
14. judy
- 12/19/2007 5:22 pm EST
"I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street."
15. Lars Walker
- 12/19/2007 7:01 pm EST
"I know a lady, kind and sweet;
I met her once upon the street.
I only saw her passing by,
And yet I love her till I die."
16. Michael
- 12/19/2007 7:21 pm EST
Who's that walking down the street,
Some girl who's got big feet?
17. omie
- 12/19/2007 7:52 pm EST
Though that girl with big feet walks so funny;
She can also hop hop hop like a bunny.
19. Phil
- 12/19/2007 10:46 pm EST
Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, north and south, east and west, near and far, hither and yon, round the corner and in a land far far away, that can ensure a more fruitful life for all mankind?
22. Michael
- 12/20/2007 9:08 am EST
That's the way it is,
Truly uly uly is,
So whatcha gonna do today?
I think I'll share!
24. omie
- 12/20/2007 12:08 pm EST
Oh Brother! ...or rather sister! heh heh. This is a stretch, but here goes...
I so "a-like-a my friend, Judy
We "share" many "alike" things.
We "alike-a" crafting.
We "alike-a" thrift stores.
And we especially "alike-a" our "grands."
So, next time we play this game, I would "a-like-a" her to "share" more of her funny words.
*****
ugh...more than one sentence...sorry, Lars and Phil. :(
26. Phil
- 12/20/2007 11:55 pm EST
You can be a much harder subject to discuss than me, not that I'm saying anything.
27. Michael
- 12/21/2007 8:07 am EST
"Blog parlor game" is already the third most popular post, and could conceivably meet the harder challenge of surpassing "Some stories lie" if we can find something, anything, to discuss.
If I'm permitted an "exhibition" response to omie's latest witticism, here it is: Haveinu shalom "alike"-em.
28. omie
- 12/21/2007 11:48 am EST
heh heh....very good. I "alike" your excellent display of exhibitionism, Michael.
"Haveinu shalom aleichem..." "We bring peace to you," also, Michael, and ALL Brandywine Books fans, in this holiday season.
29. omie
- 12/21/2007 12:01 pm EST
BTW - thanks to my good Jewish friend for her translation of Michael's Hebrew.
31. omie
- 12/21/2007 9:02 pm EST
..rejoice...Give ye heed to what we say: News! News! Jesus Christ is born today.
34. Michael
- 12/22/2007 10:04 am EST
Pity the agnostic insomniac dyslexic - he lays awake at night in the dark, wondering if there is a dog.
35. Lars Walker
- 12/22/2007 10:25 am EST
"If you take a dog into your home, feed him, care for him and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the chief difference between a dog and a man." (Mark Twain, quoted from memory)
36. Phil
- 12/22/2007 11:18 am EST
"The prosperous and beautiful
To me seem not to wear
The yoke of conscience masterful,
Which galls me everywhere."
Emerson (I looked it up)
38. omie
- 12/22/2007 4:38 pm EST
"the burden of proof is in the tasting..."
usually quoted by men as their women are cooking. heh heh
39. Lars Walker
- 12/22/2007 7:05 pm EST
"To one who will not believe, no proof will suffice. To one who believes, no proof is necessary."
42. omie
- 12/23/2007 12:40 am EST
I believe this spot was saved just for these verses.
Luke 1:31- "And, behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS."
v32- "And He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever and of his kingdom there shall be no end."
44. Phil
- 12/23/2007 3:05 pm EST
"Once when Jacob was cooking stew, Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted."
46. Michael
- 12/23/2007 6:06 pm EST
One thing I've wondered in life is, is Jacob Marley any connection to Bob Marley?
47. Michael
- 12/23/2007 6:10 pm EST
/Game off
PS: Amen, Greybeard, omie & Judy & all!
Merry Christmas, one and all, mon!
/Game on
48. omie
- 12/23/2007 7:49 pm EST
oh, mom? laughing hard...cause I just now got that. sorry....I'm slow.
Merry Christmas Lars, Phil, Michael, Judy, Bill, Sherry and Greybeard! Have the best one!
49. judy
- 12/24/2007 12:45 am EST
T'was the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
50. Phil
- 12/24/2007 11:40 am EST
And Ma in her kerchief and I in my cap had just finished stirring the fresh maple sap.
51. Michael
- 12/24/2007 8:37 pm EST
And what in the Eagle and Child should appear,
But C. S. Lewis chugging a beer.
52. Phil
- 12/24/2007 10:53 pm EST
"Here, here!" cried the child-like Tolkien to him.
"Sit down and I'll tell you of the Rohirrim."
53. Michael
- 12/25/2007 7:24 am EST
"The horse-Vikings noble" he said with great mirth,
"Are the fiercest warriors in all Middle-Earth!"
54. Lars Walker
- 12/25/2007 10:33 am EST
"We'll keep Yule like Vikings--get soused to the marrow;
And Paxford will trundle us home in a barrow!"
55. judy
- 12/26/2007 1:30 pm EST
There lives only one Viking
That's to our liking
His name is Lars
(it rhymes with farce)
Writer of story
Reinacter of glory
To the end of his days
Their names he will praise!
57. Michael
- 12/27/2007 9:15 pm EST
He goes wa-wa-wa-wa, wa-waltzing with bears,
Raggy bears, shaggy bears, baggy bears too.
There's nothing on earth Uncle Walter won't do,
So he can go waltzing, wa-wa-wa-waltzing,
So he can go waltzing, waltzing with bears!
60. Michael
- 12/29/2007 9:32 am EST
Nothing struck fear in his heart - not a talker,
but a live-steel-bearing pietist,
Moorhead's-bane,
Lars Walker.
61. Phil
- 01/04/2008 6:39 pm EST
Cuts steel with ease and yet remains sharp enough to slice a tomato!!
62. Michael
- 01/06/2008 7:31 am EST
The human hand can be used as a knife! Ha-ya!
But not with a tomato! Ha-ya! Splat!
63. Phil
- 01/07/2008 12:22 pm EST
I left the fly splat on my forehead, a fitting end to a disturbed nap.
65. omie
- 01/08/2008 11:06 pm EST
We write rhymes
About the times
In order to fill
This space with trills.
But when we reach eight
We can mark this date
And that would be so GREAT!
But one more would make nine
So, BwB friends, would you be so kind?
Because the goal is at least seventy four
Then we can open another door.
Then our verses won't be a dud
Sounding flat like a thud.
66. Michael
- 01/10/2008 6:50 am EST
"My verses were a dud,
and went down with a thud,
and I felt like crud"
- quoth Elmer Fudd
67. Michael
- 01/10/2008 6:52 am EST
* Game off *
I suppose Fudd would have really said "cwud."
* Game on *
71. Phil
- 07/02/2008 9:42 pm EDT
They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but we do, accurately too, more often than not.
72. Michael
- 08/15/2008 6:12 am EDT
A good chick lit cover
could turn Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
into a handsome lover.
73. Lars Walker
- 10/08/2008 10:02 am EDT
I'm making this comment simply to lift this post to the top of the Most Popular Posts list.
76. seth
- 07/07/2009 3:55 am EDT
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"Baby, baby don't get hooked on meeee"
/Game off
Actually, I'm pretty sure we did do this - we called it the Word Tag meme :-)
/Game on