talkmagic.co.uk

I was sat in a pub last night waiting to do the barking at a league quiz. Specifically, I was trying to come up with an ice breaker to get things rolling. I'd decided on: "For what we are about to receive, may the good Lord make us truly immune", but for some reason the following also bubbled up from my subconscious:

For those we are about to deceive,
May the good Lord make us truly thankful.

How's about that for a magician's prayer? Not bad for a godless heathen.

Love it.

Very good, Tomo

Satan may I deceive as well as thee.

Nice ring to it!!! I find it's really funny using the word Satan instead of God or Jesus, freaks the s*** out of some people!!!!!

Better to keep faith and religious matters completely out of every day magic. You will always land in dispute and argument over religion... if not war.

As with risque jokes, you need to be sure of your audience but I know one or two Priests who would love that one!

Mandrake wrote:As with risque jokes, you need to be sure of your audience but I know one or two Priests who would love that one!

It's always a giggle when people can take a joke, I work with a coloured fellow who finds the phrase "you people" hilarious!

Can deceive replace receive as per the word censor thread and lets see how many people notice?

Programmes like Vicar of Dibley and other comedies on religious themes are much appreciated by those in Holy Orders, certainly C of E, but still fall far short of the sort of joke and comedy passed around at Theological Colleges, Seminaries etc. Some of the humour is absolutely filthy !

Johnny Vegas was a trainee priest, you know. A while after he left his seminary, he had a crisis of confidence and tried to return, but God had already met someone else.

For those we are about to deceive,
May the good Lord make us truly thankful.

That's just so going to be a contender for quote of the year

It's up there for the TMUK 2010 award for best one liner of the year

Ahem...

There's 2 lines!

Ahem it's one sentence, punctuated by a comma and for verse composition reasons is placed on two lines. [/pedant]

Jordan C wrote:Ahem it's one sentence, punctuated by a comma and for verse composition reasons is placed on two lines. [/pedant]

So there's two lines then.

ha ha ha lol