This elf is getting bossy! The power of guest blogging for Kendall the past 10 days is going to her head. 😉 She has a command for all our readers: “DO NOT PASS GO! DO NOT COLLECT $200!” (for our non-American readers, this is an American slang reference from the game Monopoly)
GO DIRECTLY instead to the Article by Apb. Henry Luke Orombi, Primate of Uganda on “What is Anglicanism?“ if you have not yet read it. It is must reading! Please don’t miss it.
I often think that there needs to be some pre-requisites, some required reading required, before anyone could post on realated subjects. The elf has rightly placed the article written by Mr. Orombi on “What is Anglican” up near the top. A working knowlege of the information contained therein would improve any posters comments on this blog.
Excellent! Thank you!
DonGander
UhOh! DonGander has proven he can read minds!
This elf was considering whether there was some way to track what commenters have read ++Orombi’s article and revoking the commenting privileges of those who haven’t! LOL!
Just kidding… a bit of wishful thinking on our parts perhaps! 😉
I urge everyone to go to the link, or go directly to [url=http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=6002]the article in First Things[/url] to read Archbishop Orombi’s words. He speaks to us as an apostle. Please read it.
++Orombi’s article could be the most significant post in the 3 1/2 years I’ve been following this site.
A bossy Elf
Outranks myself
In choosing posts from Kendall’s shelf
To the elves – I know from the earlier thread you were looking into the possibility of getting permission from “First Things” to copy this article en masse. If you need any ammo, you can let them know that they’ve just gotten an annual print subscription from this–I’ve always enjoyed their website, but figured that I really ought to support their efforts–and ++Orombi’s article pushed me to finally take that step!
Thank you elves!
I have been trying to call attention to this on another well known blog but to no avail. This absolutely must be discussed among us. We just get to focused on the battles between us and them, when we need to pay just as much attention to the things that make up and build up the Church or else what kind of future are we going to have? Who is going to want to join us if all they ever see is bickering and fighting?
In amplification of #6, by Branford:
I posted the following on StandFirm, and will gladly extend the offer to anyone posting on this site:
Anyone who thinks they might be interested in subscribing to First Things can obtain one (1) complimentary copy through the simple expedient of informing a friend, colleague or acquaintance (who is already a subscriber) of their potential interest in that journal. I have been a subscriber since mid-2004, and will gladly forward your name and address to First Things with a request for said complimentary print copy. If you wish to avail yourself of this offer, please contact me using the Private Mail function available by clicking the Your Account link that is located at the top of the right navigation panel of these pages just below the welcome message when you are logged into Titus 1:9.
Dear Elf,
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Also please add to your admonition list : “DO NOT PASS GO. SEND $200 TO THE ANGLICAN DEFENSE FUND.” And give ’em the address! They listen to you!
Then, once again, all us being sued will say thank you.
Papers from the covenant track at ACI/Wycliffe are in PDF format at
http://www.wycliffehall.org.uk/content.asp?id=571
One can also see the Press release, FYI.
We’ll be posting more from the Oxford conference, never fear!
Ok. OK! Uncle! I’ll read it, I’ll read it!! J-j-just P-please stop aiming those cookies at me!!! :gulp:
Seriously, tho’ – Thanks for being so commanding. I had avoided reading this piece out of sheer laziness, with the lame excuse that “I don’t have enough time to spend on it right now”. It is indeed a most worthwhile read, and I commend it to all. +Orombi’s clarity and his steadfastness in refusing to compromise the main and plain things provide a most telling contrast with the ECUSA diet to which we have become accustomed.
[blockquote] A bossy Elf
Outranks myself
In choosing posts from Kendall’s shelf [/blockquote]
Kudos to Ireneaus.
Now, who’s got a haiku?
Canon Harmon far gone
Bossy elf runs free and wild
Come back Kendall
Thanks to Elf Girl for doing a masterful job while Kendall and Elf Lady are away. Great job.
Bzzzz. Pageantmaster. Thanks for trying. Haiku is 5-7-5 however.
Let’s try this one.
Big-headed elfgirl
plots control of T-1-9
Kendall come back soon
or
Sarah Hey was right
elfgirl’s claws are gleaming white
Kendall’s blog to snatch
I did try but so much these days is free and easy, as you like it and it is really hard to force yourself into a straightjacket.
By the way I keep hearing rumours that elves have been breaking bounds while the Canon has been away and sighted on other blogs?
oh ho! looks like we’ve got some very very uppity commmenters. Weeeellllll…. Two can play THIS little game! You want Haikus?! I’ll give you Haikus!
Fear the elf’s power
with just one click of my claw
Karen B. erased
or this:
pageantmaster tries
but Haiku form he defies
elfgirl merely sighs
and this:
the fairest flower
Daylilies brighten our lives
and cheer weary hearts
and one more:
While Kendall lazes
elfgirl slaves but proves this fact
He’s dispensable! 😉
Just kidding. 😉
Indeed hurry back dear Kendall, and elf-lady! I can’t live on 4 hours of sleep much longer!
Daylilies dry up
Pageantmaster chewed up
before Elf Girl’s claw
Have I got the hang of it?
RE: “Sarah Hey was right
elfgirl has sharp gleaming claws
Kendall’s blog to snatch”
At last, at last I
accomplish my goal and win
another over.
What? so few Haikus?!
No more commenters who dare
challenge elfin skill? 😉
———-
Sarah cries “I’ve won”
but victory is hollow
elf can hit delete
If my haikus work,
Maybe the dreaded elf-girl
Will not delete them.
If my haikus stink,
The sharp, white, comment-stain’d claws
Will rip them to shreds!
Lurking in shadows,
The dread web-elves plot darkly
To usurp Kendall!
Back from vacation,
Kendall will surely make up
Some fine elfin stew!
On a ser’ious note,
The elves have done a great job,
And we thank them much! :cheese:
victory is bare
while the play commences still,
marketing ishah
RGEaton, 2007
Ok two more from me:
elf now is mighty
while Kendall’s in ole Blighty
but when is his flight?
Will Kendall reply?
and craft a Haiku sublime
elfgirl’s reign depose?
I stand (well, sit) in awe of you haiku writers. Your mental dexterity is forcing me to rethink whether, just maybe, you might be smarter that I in all other matters too, and thus whether I should renounce my heretical beliefs and embrace your orthodoxy.
Nah . . . . 🙂
RE: “On a ser’ious note,
The elves have done a great job,
And we thank them much!”
Why is Dee Bee full
of so much smarmy hokum?
Reappraiser now?
RE: “Back from vacation,
Kendall will surely make up
Some fine elfin stew!”
We can only now hope,
since the elves had had much rope,
He won’t slowly lope.
[Of course, as with Shakespeare’s iambic pentamenter, the vowel at the end of the word “We” above is elided with “can” forming one syllable . . . I figured that Episcopalians would be able to scan that easily, but just in case there are some unsophisticated Baptists or contemporary worship folks who are not up on scansion, I’m just noting that.]
; > )
RE: “Thanks to Elf Girl for doing a masterful job while Kendall and Elf Lady are away. Great job.”
Roll eyes — another
one who needs the Judas sop
and sent into night.
eins, zwei, drei, vier, funf
sechs, sieben, acht, neun und zehn –
ist’s ein Haiku, elf?
Gordian’s ‘haiku’
lacks art – more like Sudoku.
Ponders seppuku.
[blockquote] I stand (well, sit) in awe of you [/blockquote]
D.C. now lets on
that he services attends
so Happy Clappy!
should be service!
There was an old man of Japan
whose haikus would never scan.
When someone asked why,
he replied with a sigh,
‘Because I try to cram as much into the last line as I possibly can.’
old man of China
wrote haikus much finer – they
ended suddenly
What is Gordian?
puzzled haiku lovers ask
a knotty problem!
# 31:
‘Haiku’ suggests strange
chimera of the deep –
German for ‘shark cow’!
(* Hai-Kuh!)
Those who write haiku
Much time to poder, they have
A life they must get.
Rain, Rain, go away
My son’s all-star game today
is. Fields are soggy.
Reasserters and
reappraisers here comment
Talk past each other
T-1-9 Is the
best place for Anglican News
Need my Kendall fix.
YBIC,
Phil Snyder
And I was so excited when I checked this morning and there were nearly forty comments on the Archbishop’s article! Hah! Summertime, and the livin’ is easy ….
‘Much time to poder’
deep in the heart of Texas –
writes he like Yoder.
(Yoder is, of course, a 900 year old Mennonite Jedi Knight.)
[i]Groan. That’s so bad it hurts! What do you think commenters? Should the elf ban Gordian for such a blatant offense!?! 😉 [/i]
The elf’s heart is glad
at the haikus good and bad
blogging means new friends
A plane from England threatens
I hear a bear growl
Run, elfgirl, hide thee quickly
Elfgirl tries but can’t replace
The Canon with his wit
Thou should get thee hence anon
My take on timely issues:
Feminist ranting
Apology is scornful
Where is Christian love?
Now “what is haiku?”
Takes o’er “Anglicanism.”
Intermission time.
A-writing haiku
Takes one back to junior high
Skills have not improved!
Christians stand for Christ
Anglicanism will fade
Jesus the King rules
# 42: “If I were punished for every pun I shed, there would not be left a puny shed of my punnish head.”
Samuel Johnson
(trying to work this into a haiku)
you guys are very
strange but you challenge me brain
so I tried it too
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas
And now Sarah Hey
Says I, reappraising, fly –
To her I say, “Fie”!
But the elf-fangs do
sink into my bad haiku –
and this I fear, too!
“Poder” and “Yoder”
Fingers faster than keyboards
We all make mistakes.
Backwards Yoda talked
Very annoying it was
now I cannot stop.
Puns are very bad
the lowest form of humor
But they could be verse!
YBIC,
Phil Snyder
Man, where is [url=http://cluelesschristian.classicalanglican.net]Shari[/url] when we need her? She used to be very good at this kind of banter.
🙂
Elf gewöhnliche Elfe
Können’s nicht so gut machen
Sowie unsre zwei
—————————-
Translation:
Eleven ordinary elves could not do it as well
As our two
OK, OK, 5 syllables in the first line:
Elf g’wöhnlich’ Elfe
Können’s nicht so gut machen
Sowie unsre zwei
Man nennt sie ‘Elfen’,
weil sie immer so bereit sind,
uns all’ zu ‘elfen.*
———–
* cooked-up Cockney German (Kochdeutsch) pronunciation, as in ‘Vot’s it all about, elfie?’
Trans (from Liza Doolittle, ‘enry ‘iggins & Dick Van Dyke):
‘They call them ‘elves’
because they’re always so ready
to ‘elp us all.
My Fair Lady with
Mary Poppins Gordion
stews up for Elf.
So descent into
madness continues thanks to
absent Brer Rabbit
What an utterly bizarre and wonderful collection of Haikus. Bursting a gut laughing, and utterly unable to think of any more haikus!
Pageantmaster, I made my off-the-wall comment then left on vacation. And now 57 comments? What hath the rabbit wrought?
Well not a Haiku
Hath Brer Rabbit wrought. Oh no!
But much humour brought!
Haiku’d out are Elves?
Or heading for the border?
Commenters grateful!
E. l. v. e. s.
started it and now must live
with consequences!
:^>
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas