GoldenRoya: I never could get where this Rapture comes from. Jesus says no one knows when, yet “televangelists” say they know. Amos says you won’t want it – like running from a lion and encountering a bear, or resting against a wall and getting snake-bit.
We planned on blowing up the bridge the bus had to cross to pick us up for school. Since we never had bigger explosives than an odd firecracker or two (and those only on the 4th of July) the plan withered away.
Macushlalondra: Always the best advice. Poor Amos got badly translated into English because everything is imitating the KJV (which had no older texts to work with than 400 years earlier) and who never saw a wall of water except the little one foot tidal bore in the Severn. What he really said was “Let justice sweep down like a flash flood [cleaning out the wadi] and righteousness flow like a perennial stream [in the desert].”
LeoAutodidact over 11 years ago
Ones small enough to just take out a building tend to burn-up upon entry, Red. Ones big enough to “get through” are more than you REALLY want.
hippogriff over 11 years ago
GoldenRoya: I never could get where this Rapture comes from. Jesus says no one knows when, yet “televangelists” say they know. Amos says you won’t want it – like running from a lion and encountering a bear, or resting against a wall and getting snake-bit.
BustaLaff over 11 years ago
Ha-HA-HA-HA-HA …… Thoughts from a young school boy !!I always hoped the school bus would break down BEFORE picking me up! ;^)
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
We planned on blowing up the bridge the bus had to cross to pick us up for school. Since we never had bigger explosives than an odd firecracker or two (and those only on the 4th of July) the plan withered away.
The Life I Draw Upon over 11 years ago
Turn around it’s in Russia.
boldyuma over 11 years ago
There’s canceling school and then there’s canceling school
john.hubbling over 11 years ago
Sorry to nit pick, but you want one big enough not one small enough…
Catfeet Premium Member over 11 years ago
Red, forget the deus-ex-machina and just fake the flu symptoms like I did!
hippogriff over 11 years ago
Macushlalondra: Always the best advice. Poor Amos got badly translated into English because everything is imitating the KJV (which had no older texts to work with than 400 years earlier) and who never saw a wall of water except the little one foot tidal bore in the Severn. What he really said was “Let justice sweep down like a flash flood [cleaning out the wadi] and righteousness flow like a perennial stream [in the desert].”