What's In Your Kaboodle?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Forty-seven international journalists can’t be wrong when they report: “98.5% of the people of the world want peace – now!”

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

You wait for our return.
You wait for our growth.
You wait for our learning.
You wait for our trust.
Here we are, ready or not.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Take this job and shove it.”

[No, that’s not what He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane before his arrest.]

D. Blog: Kit and Caboodle?

[Thanks to the article in Wikipedia for explaining this strange term.]

Kit and caboodle is a phrase that evolved over time. Most recently from the earlier phrase "kit and boodle".

Boodle (or Buddle) is an old word, and probably evolved from the Dutch "boedel" meaning a crowd or bunch. "The whole boodle" was heard as long ago as the early 19th century.

Kit is also a time honored word with many meanings, one of which is a collection of tools or possessions that a person might carry with them. "The whole kit" was used by 1785.

Caboodle is essentially a nonsense word, and is perhaps a contraction or rhyme of "kit and boodle".

[In my opinion, a nonsense word begins with a K instead of a C, as in katzenjammer.]