How Embarrassing

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

God is on my side, for in Jesus God has issued a Declaration of Peace.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

If you are holy, what does that make me? As your child, I carry your DNA, so to speak, including the holiness trait. If you have adopted me, then you recognize my holy potential or accept me as part of the holy family. If I recognize and claim my lineage and my family, I allow holiness into my life, express it, embody it in my being. Anything else seems unworthy of who you are in my life.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Let’s party ‘til the sheep come home.”

[It might have been more like “Can’t party until the sheep come home” but He never said either.]

D. Blog: Word of the Week -- Blooper

[from www.word-detective.com]

It appears that the sense of “blooper” meaning “mistake,” especially a public and embarrassing faux pas, has an origin separate from that of the baseball kind of “blooper.” There seem to be two possible sources for the “mistake” sense. In the early days of radio, a poorly shielded receiver could generate a signal that would interfere with other receivers nearby, causing the other sets to emit a howling or “bloop” sound. Such sets came to be known as “bloopers,” and it is possible that the “mistake” sense came from this sudden, unpleasant and unwanted radio noise. But during the same period, sound engineers splicing film soundtracks invented a way of covering the splices, called a “blooping patch,” that prevented the film from making unwanted noises when the splice passed through the projector. Since an error in recording would call for such a splice, it is possible that “blooper” in the “error” sense comes from this process.

The baseball sort of “blooper,” a ball hit high but weakly so that it just clears the infield and hits the ground short of the outfield, has a more certain origin. The term is echoic, imitative of the soft “bloop” sound of the bat striking the ball (as opposed to the sharp crack of a more powerful hit). “Blooper” can also mean a pitch lobbed high so as to drop through the strike zone.

[I can’t help remarking that W owned a baseball team, and that he has made a lot of unwanted sounds when trying to speak into a microphone…]