One should never talk during a coffee shop session of a vocal jazz band in a church. You will have people come up and tell you to be quiet. You will have others tell you that you should just leave if you are going to continue to talk.
Church people can be a little uptight while trying to listen to vocal jazz.
Convince city council to mandate wrenching posts be installed in everyone’s yard.
A metal rod with an eyelet would help yank old freezers out of people’s basements with ease.
A law that mandates twittering for public officials.
All meetings, phone calls, thoughts, lunches, dinners, stall chats, and other interactions should be documented–in real-time. These politicians have staffers follow them everywhere, so let’s put those Blackberries, iPhones, and Android-based devices to good use.
Let us push to have mandatory twittering for public officials!
Sometimes it’s OK to follow the cues of society’s structure.
How to Tell if a Band is a Christian Band
| device | HUMOR | WIT | SATIRE | SARCASM |
| motive/aim | discovery | throwing light | amendment | inflicting pain |
| province | human nature | words & ideas | morals & manners | faults & foibles |
| method/means | observation | surprise | accentuation | inversion |
| audience | the sympathetic | the intelligent | the self-satisfied | victim & bystander |
| device | INVECTIVE | IRONY | CYNICISM | SARDONIC |
| motive/aim | discredit | exclusiveness | self-justification | self-relief |
| province | misconduct | statement of facts | morals | adversity |
| method/means | direct statement | mystification | exposure of nakedness | pessimism |
| victim & bystander | the public | an inner circle | the respectable | the self |
Imagine if our ancestors filled their leisure time with passive activities. Where would we be today?
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