Newsletters aimed at special interest groups often have a gloom-and-doom quality. Readers are repeatedly told they are being had, have been had or about to be had by the (fill in the blank) enemy de jour.
Newsletters that target feds often have a combative tone. But there are some notable exceptions. Like the “State of the Union” newsletter published by an NTEU local in Denver. Jon Rogers is editor and Mary J. Wright is chapter president.
This week’s offering has a very, very funny collection of fractured church announcements. They call it “Church Ladies Speak or Why God Created Editors!” Here are some examples. Read them to a coworker. If either of you fail to laugh, at least take each other’s pulse:
- The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
- Don’t let worry kill you off — let the Church help.
- Miss Charlene Mason sang ‘I Will Not Pass This Way Again’ giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
- For those of you who have children and don’t know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
- A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.
- At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be ‘What Is Hell?’ Come early and listen to our choir practice.
- Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and the deterioration of some older ones.
- The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
- This evening at 7 p.m. there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
- Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning…all ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.
- Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. Please use the back door.
- Weight Watchers will meet at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.
- The Associate Minister unveiled the church’s new tithing campaign slogan last Sunday: “I Upped My Pledge — Up Yours.”
Can you top this?
Oversight Overkill
Yesterday’s column about abuse of government purchase cards prompted lots of mail, including this one which adds some perspective to the bad news:
Nearly Useless Factoid
Thanks to the world’s most powerful laser, Wired reports we should start getting used to new words. Two of them are “petawatt,” a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) watts of power, and “femtoseconds”, 10-15 seconds. “Petawatt? I shouldn’t even be doing this!”
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