Today's post is dedicated to an individual whose dreams are even more bizarre than mine, Jess of Apropos of Something. I have a love-hate relationship with people who might be funnier than me -- I love them right up to the point that they disappear in a mysterious boating accident. I hate it when that happens. Anyway, Jess' blog is definitely worth checking out. Frequent visitors to this blog will know that I have a tendency to dream about 70s sitcom characters. A recent post on his Jess' blog reminded me of a dream I had several years ago. At the time I was attending a church in Michigan which had the distinction of being the most liberal church in an extremely conservative denomination. It was pretty traditional really, except for the occasional weird thing like somebody doing an interpretive dance on Paul's Second Epistle to the Corinthians or something. Other than stuff like that, it was your typical white people sitting quietly and singing songs kind of church. In this dream our regular pastor was absent, so the sermon was being delivered by Jimmy Walker of Good Times fame. He was whipping the crowd into a frenzy, waving his Bible and doing the animated black preacher thing. But instead of greeting his proclamations with a loud "Amen!", the crowd were yelling in unison (say it with me now):
DYN-O-MITE!!!
Tell me you wouldn't want to go to that church.
Labels: Shout-Outs
| posted by Diesel at Thursday, December 14, 2006 |
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I didn't remember that guy was called Jimmy Walker ... that would be a great service! "Blessed is he who walks in the path of the almighty ... dyn-o-mite!" hehe
I don't want to go to that church.
*face cracks*
All right, you got me. I do want to go to that church.
Dy-No-Mite!
Can I just watch it on TV and MST3K it?
Have you seen the poor guy lately?
GER-I-TOL!!!
Funny! I was raised Southern Baptist, Jimmy Walker would have been a blessed relief from our regular preachers.
Oh, wow! Thanks for the shout-out and the kind words.
More importantly, though, thanks for associating my name with Jimmy Walker's in Google. ;)
I'd be there in a second!
"Dynomite!"
If Jimmy Walker were actually preaching, even *I* might start going back to church. Don't hold your breath, though. My problem with church lately is that there are people in it. People scare me. Especially church people. :o) (Sorry, Diesel, present company excluded, I'm sure.)
Diesel - nice chuck norris "facts" on my site - I loved them! I can always count on you for a bit of fun creativity.
Some excitement in church would be dynomite!
Ha. THat is truly weird. I think I would not like that church. But I like the dream.
logo,
Long have I dreamed of an MST3K church service! You can sit in the front row with a mic and riff through the whole thing. When can you stop by and make this a reality?
"tbifo": part of famous catchphrase by an utterly forgotten comedian. It precedes "taftah."
Anita - Amen, sister.
Robin - At least once, for the experience of it, right?
Logo - Some things can't be parodied.
Al - I know, and he was scary looking to begin with.
Kat - From most preachers of all denominations, unfortunately.
Jess - You're welcome. And I know I can't be the first one to have made that association.
Pavel - You and me both.
Angela - The problem with people is that you can't get away from them even outside church. They're friggin' EVERYWHERE.
Anita - Thanks, it was fun. :)
Goldennib - Definitely.
Cindra - Maybe I'll dream Willie Aames as a priest next.
Allen - I have to admit I've MST3K'd a few services myself. We had a guest pastor a few weeks back who gave the boringest sermon I've EVER heard. For the passage he was preaching on, he started reading at the beginning of Genesis and just went on and on in this monotone voice, and it seemed like he was never going to stop. Finally I leaned over to my wife and whispered, "Wake me up when he gets to Moses."
oh man! was i dreaming? or did i just get back from Crazyland? because i am SURE you had a new post up. well, an new OLD post up... well a clever new twist to a clever OLD post... and
i'm going back to sleep and/or Crazyland to see if i can find out what happened to my mind. i hope i can find it before Jimmy Walker does. no tellin' what he dy-no-might do. (oh, and i dy-no-might want to go to that church, then again, i dy-no-might not.) xox
Willie Ames? Have you seen him in his superhero religious incarnation? Seriously? Can't remember his name right now--I think our Sunday School classrooms might have some of his tapes for when we need to fill time.