Overheard at Table 3: Co-Ed Dorms

Woke up to hearing Pastor Erwin Lutzer talking about how bad it is "these days" that co-ed dorms led some girl to sin.  He was saying she was a Christian and he said he was a Christian and he was pressuring her to have sex and she says they prayed and then they committed fornication. 

Sounds like most college days.

Absolutely!  Look, I know it's a sin, and I know what the Lord intended, and what's ultimately best, but what really galls me is these pastors acting like this is something new.

Co-ed dorms ain't new.

The sermon was probably from the 80s.  Don't know.  But regardless, he mentioned how "these days" there is so much immorality.  Look, I read once that in the 1700s in the Colonies, most first born babies were born 6 months after the wedding.  

Gee, didn't know pregnancies were so quick then.

That's because the girl had missed her period and THEN they got married!

I know.  I was KIDDING.

Oh, sorry.  Just get so worked up.

Well, you shouldn't.  I mean, it's just the birds and the bees.  That's how we all got here.

Just bugs me when pastors act like fornication is just something that "oh my GAWD what has the world become, we all used to be SO PURE and angelic in the mythical 50s!"

 

Overheard at Booth 1: Jurassic World - Dominion (2022)

Truly the only thing I can say about this movie is that it's really sad to see franchises fizzle out, and this one is one of the worst ones.

I mean, you can tell when even the actors are bored and just getting a paycheck.  Normally, these fairly decent actors at least LOOK like they are into their roles, but this time, they act like they are cartoonish fops from 1940s Saturday Morning Matinees.

Heck, the most lively actors in this movie were the CG Dinosaurs!

This movie was badly plotted, poorly written, sadly acted, and the editing just made it choppy and the story incomprehensible.

Overheard at Table 4: Body Worlds at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences

https://www.hmns.org/exhibits/special-exhibitions/body-worlds-the-cycle-of-life/

"my wife and I really liked this exhibit!  we just decided to go to the museum today - basically, we had just intended to walk around the gardens, but I saw a banner for King Tut and we went in to see it.  Tut's not coming until October, but we decided to check out Body Worlds.  We've seen an exhibition like it before, and they are always good.  These are real bodies, people who've donated their bodies to science and education.

"what I enjoy almost as much as the exhibit itself is seeing the reactions of the people.  There were mothers there with their sons, showing them the different musculo-skeletal structures, there were about three young women there, and the way they were discussing the different exhibits, you could tell they were nurses.

"there was one exhibit of kidneys attached to the urethra attached to the penis along with the testes, and there was a dad with his two sons and he said to them, 'remember what I was telling you about the kidneys and how it filters the pee and the pee comes out?' and the mom behind them clears her throat, because she just KNOWS he's about to move on to the testes, and he immediately shuts up and they all move on.

"then the nurses are discussing the appendix and the reason for it and why can't they stop the appendix from being infected, why does it have to be removed surgically every time it goes bad, and I SO WANTED to let them know that, at least when I had mine out 30 years ago, it was because there is no warning sign and no screening and by the time it goes bad, it's cut that thing out or you gonna die!  and I was ALMOST about ready to discuss it with the nurses, but I know it would just embarrass my wife, so I didn't say anything.

"still, it was a great day and a great exhibit and both my wife and I were happy to see the museum so crowded with people.  That really was a wonderful sight to see!"

Overheard at Table 2: Three Women (song idea)

The Dead Kandinskys have had this running through their tiny brain.


*singing* Philosophy ... is a walk on the slippery rocks, Religion ...
is the smile on a dog.

*cut to* I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
got my paper and I was free

*cut to* You gotta make a decision
we can leave tonight or live and die this way.

..

These can be sampled and cut/spliced together.

Would be a good story to show the points of view and intersecting lives of three different women, living in the late 1980s.

Or ... it might be the same women, at three different points in her life ... teenage/college/20s

Overheard at Table 2: Clannagall

Is it Clann na nGael or Clan na Gael?

Or are there different spellings from different regions?

Can it be shortened to Clannagal or Clannagall for the sake of a band name?

So many questions but who has answers?

Overheard at Table 3: Lord of the Rings - new prequel

Billy: Heard some folks're pee-Ohd over the new Lord of the Rings having black elves.

Joe: Black elves? Like in Dungeons and Dragons?

Jim: No.  Black actors playing elves.

Bob: Are they good actors?

Billy: I suppose they are.

Joe: So what's the problem then?

Jim: Some folks think that since JRR wrote 'em as white they should be played by white people.

Bob: Did he write them as white?

Billy: Not really.  Some folks just assume.

Joe: Cuz Tolkein was white?

Jim: Something like that.

Bob: That's silly.  It's not like Middle Earth is actual history. 

Billy: Like Idris Elba playing Henry the VIII.

Joe: Actually, that's not a bad idea.

Jim: Idris Elba can play anything.

Bob: He's still my choice for James Bond.

Overheard at Table 3: Another Russian Suicide ... Apparently

John Steppenwolf: Just heard on the BBC that a head of a Russian oil company just fell to his death from a 6th story window in what is being ruled as an "apparent suicide"

Niall Carter: Funny how that happens with such alarming frequency.

John: They noted that he had "expressed concerns" about Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Niall: Then I'm surprised he didn't commit apparent suicide months ago!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11168169/Russian-oil-tycoon-decorated-Putin-dies-plunging-sixth-floor-hospital-window.html

 

 

"Ah Russia!  A country of such opulence that Oligarchs and Executives fall like rain!" - Lucky Moran