My friend Bill [of "The Old Bill" fame] has a rant on is blog today about a prayer he heard on a religious radio program [and about annoying prayer in general], here's a snippet:

There's this strange evangelical prayer jargon where the word "Lord" or "Jesus" [or both] occurs at least once in every sentence, accompanied somehow by the word "just"... remarkably irritating. It's a wonder at times our prayers are not followed by a voice from heaven saying "Shut up for a minute". Prayer is simply conversation, right? So then if we followed the same format, a conversation over coffee might sound like this:

Bill, we’re just really thankful that you are here, Bill
that you are home, friend Bill,
that we can come to your home Bill
with thanksgiving sweet Bill,
that you welcome us, precious friend.
Oh yes, that we can share sweet conversation Bill,
And sweet percolation Bill.
For your precious precious coffee Bill,
And that we don't have to perc our coffee ourselves, sweet Bill,
but that you perc it for us,
We’re just really appreciative of the coffee Bill,
but also the cream, Bill, all the cream we could want Bill,
just there for us.
Oh yes and the sugar too Bill,
The sweet, sweet sugar...

Too funny. Often when I read Bill's blog, I think about the old guys in the balcony of The Muppet Show, I guess because he calls it like he sees it... and I love it.

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