It’s hard buying gifts for people. I’ve already decided , but what to buy for my fellow MR’s? Since giftcards to Liquor Mart are a little out of my range, I’m thinking of another group activity that can bring us all together … maybe a board game?
“Is the Pope Catholic!?! - The Catholic Nostalgia game. The objective is to become the Pope, starting as an altar boy, and advancing by answering questions that require a Catholic background to appreciate.”
I wonder what would happen if we mixed it up a little, say, with this ol’ chestnut:
Exciting! Ha! My friend and I tried to play this one as young ‘uns. Sadly, all we had was a case of warm Narragansett Beer.
I don’t remember this game at all:
“The game where you create what your opponents draw or charade. Situations occur in a barroom, bedroom, dating or outdoors. Definitely an adult game!”
To any aspiring novelists who like to copyright but can’t spell their own middle names correctly, I didn’t write this. It says “” I just comment on it, or rather, blog about it.
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court has ruled that a couple could not name their son “Friday” and ordered that he instead be called Gregory after the saint whose feast day he was born on.
“I think it is ridiculous they even opened a case about it,” the family’s lawyer, Paola Rossi, told Reuters by telephone from the northern city of Genoa on Tuesday.
Friday/Gregory Germano was born in Genoa 15 months ago. The parents registered him as Friday in the city hall and a priest even baptised him as Friday — unusual in Italy since many priests insist that first names be of Christian origin.
“We named him Friday because we like the sound of the name. Even if it would have been a girl, we would have named her Friday,” the boy’s mother, Mara Germano, told Reuters.
When the boy was about five months old, a city hall clerk brought the odd name to the attention of a tribunal, which informed the couple of an administrative norm which bars parents from giving “ridiculous or shameful” first names to children.
The tribunal said it was protecting the child from being the butt of jokes and added that it believed the name would hinder him from developing “serene interpersonal relationships”.
The Germano family appealed but lost their case this month and the story was carried on the front page of a national newspaper on Tuesday.
When ordered to change the name, the parents refused and the court ruled the boy would be legally registered as Gregory because he was born on that saint’s feast day.
“I really doubt this would have happened to the child of parents who are rich and famous,” the boy’s mother told Reuters, recalling that some famous Italians had given their children unorthodox names such as “Ocean” or “Chanel”.
The appeals court ruled against Friday because it recalled the servile savage in Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe and because superstitious Italians consider Friday an unlucky day.(huh? -DL)
“I am livid about this,” the boy’s mother said. “A court should not waste its time with things like this when there is so much more to worry about.”
“My son was born Friday, baptised Friday, will call himself Friday, we will call him Friday but when he gets older he will have to sign his name Gregory,” she said.
“Serene interpersonal relationships”? I’m going to start asking all the Gregorys I know if they have them. Then again, if they had this here, we’d be saved from the horrors of Apple (Paltrow), Pilot Inspektor (Jason Lee), Banjo (Rachel Griffiths) and Saint Shiloh of Pitt.
Judge dismisses charge against woman who cursed her overflowing toilet
SCRANTON, Pa. - A woman who was cited for loudly cursing at her overflowing toilet ? and then at a neighbor who told her to quiet down ? has been acquitted on First Amendment grounds.
District Judge Terrence Gallagher dismissed the disorderly conduct charge against Dawn Herb, 33, ruling Thursday that she was within her rights when she let loose a string of profanities Oct. 11.
Although the language she used “may be considered by some to be offensive, vulgar and imprudent … (it is) protected speech pursuant to the First Amendment,” the judge wrote.
Mass was never like this! Sadly, not one article I’ve found contains the list.
GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. - Sister Kathy Avery won’t put up with swearing on the playground at her school, and she’s not above repeating the offending language to make sure everyone understands which words she won’t tolerate.
The principal of St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic School had students stay after a Mass last month and informed the fifth- through eighth-graders that she has a zero-tolerance policy for cursing.
Just in case anyone wasn’t sure what she was talking about, Avery read off a list of the very words and phrases that she was banning.
“It got a little quiet in church” during her talk, she told the Detroit Free Press.
Some parents were shocked, but others applauded, the newspaper said.
“In a way you would think a nun would shy away from something like that, but she’s very open with the children, very clear in her messages,” said Margaret Roache, chairperson of the school commission.
Roache’s sixth-grade son was there when Avery read the list of banned words.
“When I asked him to give me a sample of it, he said, ‘Oh, no, I can’t say it!’” Roache said. “I thought it was great.”
A representative of the Archdiocese of Detroit declined to comment Sunday.
Cuss words aren’t the only things that set Avery off. She’s also banned the words “stupid” and “boring.”
I’ve never wanted kids and I rarely like them, as you can probably tell from my blogging. But this little feller just cries out “adopt me!” Just think - he could be my very own Arnold Ziffel … much smarter than most children, and I won’t have to worry about him stabbing a sibling over the tv. I’m already picturing the Christmas cards I could make with me as Mary and him as the Baby J!
Stowaway piglet survives toilet roll ordeal
LONDON (Reuters) - A piglet nicknamed Andrex is recovering after being found in the back of a truck full of toilet paper at a supermarket.
The animal, thought to be two or three weeks old, was discovered in a delivery at a Tesco store in Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Staff wrapped the piglet in a duvet and called the RSPCA, a Tesco spokesman said Tuesday.
He was taken to an animal shelter in Radcliffe-on-Trent, outside Nottingham, suffering from cuts and bruises to his snout.
“We will now care for him until he is fit enough to be found a permanent home,” said Ella Herring, the shelter’s deputy manager.
Tesco said store workers were unsure of how the piglet came to be on the truck, but thought it may have been a prank.
“Staff are used to dealing with the unexpected, but little Andrex’s arrival was a shock,” a Tesco spokesman said. “They took it in their stride, wrapping him up straightaway in a duvet in the manager’s office and calling the RSPCA for advice and help.”
?Even growing up around it, little shards of the language stayed alive in our mouths and came out as slang,? he said, spouting a string of words that sounded straight out of a James Cagney movie.
?Snazzy? comes from ?snasach,? which means polished, glossy or elegant.*
The word ?scram? comes from ?scaraim,? meaning ?I get away.? The word ?swell? comes from ?sóúil,? meaning luxurious, rich and prosperous, and ?sucker? comes from ?sách úr,? or, loosely, fat cat.
There is ?Say uncle!? (?anacal? means mercy), ?razzmatazz,? and ?malarkey,? and even expressions like ?gee whiz? and ?holy cow? and ?holy mackerel? are Anglicized versions of Irish expressions, he said. So are ?doozy,? ?hokum,? ?humdinger,? ?jerk,? ?punk,? ?swanky,? ?grifter,? ?bailiwick,? ?sap,? ?mug,? ?wallop,? ?helter-skelter,? ?shack,? ?shanty,? ?slob,? ?slacker? and ?knack.?
Officials at a U.K. high school were aghast after a stripper visited a student during class and whipped him in front of other students and a horrified teacher, Sky News reported Thursday.
A booking error is to blame after a mother arranged to send a “gorilla gram” to her son on his 16th birthday, an arrangement she cleared with Nottingham’s Arnold Hill School and Technology College. Instead, the agency sent a stripper clad in a policewoman costume, Sky reported.
After whipping the teen, the stripper placed a collar around his neck and led him around the classroom with a leash, telling him he had been a “bad boy” for not doing his homework. She then put on a Britney Spears tune and stripped for the shocked class, witnesses told Sky.
The police were not called and no one was suspended from the school in the incident, and officials said they were investigating.
