Was he licking frogs?

I don't know the guy, but his face sure rings a bell.

...and he's a dead ringer for his brother.

Oznog: I don't know the guy, but his face sure rings a bell.

...and he's a dead ringer for his brother.

I'm sure that's just a hunch.

While NZ is a pretty cool place, its percentage of religious nutters is as large if not greater than in the US. And OZ is not far behind.

Vash's Apprentice: Oznog: I don't know the guy, but his face sure rings a bell.

...and he's a dead ringer for his brother.

I'm sure that's just a hunch.

Well played, draw another 5 cards from the deck.

Perhaps someone should just flog this bishop.

The Bishop!



Link @ 3:51 you can see what happens with too much bell ringing

/We was too late

gopher321: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: You know what action should be taken in order to overturn that conviction?

A peal.

You should a tone for that awful joke.

A little bird tolled me he's not gong to do so.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

He's not even ringing any bells. He's playing a recording of bells ringing. If God even gave a shiat about bell ringing every thirty minutes, one might imagine he'd prefer it to actually require a little bit of human effort.

Bishop,

How about you go ring your little bell in the burn ward of the local Childrens Hospital. Tell them how God is hard at work, and how we all must pray for salvation from a sin they didn't commit, and how they must glorify God's greatness to others. Yeah, then explain to the burned kids how the three per day skin scrubbings are just God's way of saying, "Don't sin, and maybe you can hang out with the guy who could've prevented all that needless, senseless pain in the first place, the guy who chose to do nothing as you cried in pain."

Give me a break.

Maybe we can blast 150 decibel sounds of pigs squealing at his church during mass every Sunday? Of course we'll have to do it from the public sidewalk or one of the neighbors houses.

I wonder if it was just him or if it was him and his friends. I can just imagine them ringing the bell and giggling as they imagined everybody they where annoying getting cranky. I'm sure he had to know it was rude. But I wonder if it was funny for him at all.

AbbeySomeone: RodneyToady: Time to listen to Suzanne Vega's In Liverpool again.

/probably obscure, even here

nope

Over my head.

/except for the boy in the belfry.

Looks like we need to run some cattle through the Vatican.

mistersnark: Someone fetch me the Number 14-St. Joseph-the-Somewhat-Divine-On-The-Hill Ballistic Missile.

/It's in the attic, I believe

"The bells are getting louder!"

"What?!?"

RockIsDead: Is this the thread where atheists tell Christians how Christians are supposed to act?

HAHAHA!

Yeah. Act like a farkin Christian.

If only "Love Your Neighbor" or something to that effect were a main tenet of Christianity. But alas...

Fano: Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

Did someone call for a drunken knight, recently returned from the crusades to go on a quest for good king Richard?

/probably got that wrong
//too lazy to go look up the quote

RockIsDead: God hating heathens!

Amen!

"Anyway, when I get my membership card and blazer badge back from the League of Agnostics, I shall urge the executive to lodge a protest against that religious racket! Pass the butter knife."

Just tonight on Jeopardy, "Also a chess piece" was one of the categories.

There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he really don't know if he believes in anything or not.

RockIsDead: Is this the thread where atheists tell Christians how Christians are supposed to act?

HAHAHA!

Did those evil heathens ignore your first pathetic troll attempt? You poor thing. Keep trying. One day you'll actually manage to make someone, oh, do I dare say it? Yes! Someday you might actually make someone angry! And then your life will be complete!

Yes, sometimes he is also there on Mondays.

I love it when belligerent assholes defend their actions by claiming their god wants them to be complete dickweeds.

Listen, "Bishop" Douchebag, your faith does not give you the right to make the lives of your neighbors miserable. Maybe you should take this opportunity to reflect on your actions. Maybe, like the man in the flood who ignores the boats and helicopter trying to rescue him, God is using human agents to tell you something.

Ed Grubermann: RockIsDead: *REDACTED*

Did those evil heathens ignore your first pathetic troll attempt? You poor thing. Keep trying. One day you'll actually manage to make someone, oh, do I dare say it? Yes! Someday you might actually make someone angry! And then your life will be complete!

You couldn't just keep ignoring him, could you?

/any reply is good enough for a troll
//they're comment whores

He likes dongs.

Yeah...what a douche priest.

When I went to church, the pastor just rang the big ass bell (which was only two feet tall) on very special occasions or tragedies, you know, like one strike for every year for the church's anniversary, or one strike for every victim in the Oklahoma City bombing...I wasn't there for that, but what was funny was I heard he forgot his earplugs for that one. He came back inside with his eyes wide, shaking his head, and ended up screaming the sermon.

/It was the first time he didn't need the microphone.

If God is so powerful why does he need you to ring a bell to let people know he's there?

I'm atheist, and I don't know.

I live in a quiet New England town. Church bells mark time around here, every 15 minutes. I was a sailor once too. Bells mark time on ships. It's a familiar sound, missed when not heard.

Are the bells marking time in the background, or creating an interrupting cacophony?

I think bell recordings are cheating.

When I was young and churched Mister Carter, the sexton, would let my friends and I ring the bell for Sunday service. We'd get the bell going and - if the sexton attended other duties - we'd hang onto the rope letting the momentum of the bell carry us aloft.

That was a long time ago. Now get off my lawn.

solcofn: Came for the Monty Python and Suzanne Vega references....Leaving happy.



/We was too late...
//Like a hunchback in heaven


If that Bishop doesn't stop with the bells, the Monty Python sketch we'll be referencing is the "Dead Bishop on the Landing" one.

I don't approve of violence, but there should be a week every year where it is legal to beat the ever loving snot out of anyone who thinks they have divine sanction to be a dick to everyone else.

As a general rule I don't care for the sound of senseless bell ringing.
When I lived in Syracuse NY I'd be walking home and hear someone actually Playing the bells of a church. It was a pretty regular thing. The one that stopped me in my tracks though was when they played.Rocky Raccoon. I didn't think it was possible. I laughed out loud. I asked around about it and I guess it's fairly common that if you play the bells or are a Carillonneur and you travel to a place that has a Carillon you can ask to "Guest Play" them. Go figure.
I don't think this tone deaf old fart was in this league. Just being a curmudgeonly old prick.



This is a weird world and that's okay with me.