I accidentally read the cover of the Daily Progress this weekend and discovered an article about “Prayer at the Pump,” a Christian movement seeking God’s help in lowering gas prices. Maybe it’s one of those things where the people don’t realize that gasoline prices are driven by how much we consume. Anyway, now that this made the front page of the DP, we want to solicit prayer topics for things that are entirely in our control/ridiculous. Maybe we too can make the front page…
Our list of prayer items for Charlottesville:
- Lower prices on mixed drinks
- $2 beer comes back to South Street all night on Tuesday
- That we never get hangovers, even when drinking excessively
- Bringing OXO back
- Friday’s after 5 starts offering beer for $1
- That we had access to King George’s entire wardrobe
- That more of you would write articles! (snark)
Our next prayer session will occur on Tuesday night at South Street. Any other prayer ideas?
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That Lillith comes back.
That Parlie’s rash clears up.
That B-yo’s porch gets fixed.
i think their prayers are falling of deaf ears. last time i checked, allah was in charge of most of the world’s oil-bearing territories.
@2, oh boy. (ps where is everyone today)
Perhaps. If you include both oil & gas, it goes:
1. Saudi, 2. Putin-land, 3. USA, 4. China, 5. Iran, 6. Mexico, 7. Canada
http://www.worldoil.com/INFOCENTER/STATISTICS_DETAIL.ASP?STATFILE=_WORLDOILPRODUCTION
(the extra gas condensate in OPEC could change the ranking a bit)
@3: No kidding. Like a ghost town today.
@2: Canada and Russia have about a zillion oils (I think that’s the technical term), but only a little Allah.
@4: Sorry, didn’t mean to almost duplicate. I had written my post, but forgot to hit “Submit comment”. Didn’t see yours.
i pray that 3stix’ses’s doorbell rings tonight and he opens the door and falls into a deep hole full of flaming dogshit.
@7, did you cure the rash, finally?
I’m skeptical. My prayers to win the lottery’s Mega-Millions haven’t panned out for me so far…
Happy, good one.. can’t believe I didn’t think of that!
especially that lambskin toga he was wearing saturday. it was soft.
i really like his big bird get-up. it is not soft..at all. but it is a nice shade of yellow.
LuLu you have the style I have the unstyle.
@5 - well, everyone knows canadians are atheists and russians worship a beatle, so praying to american god won’t help there either
@ 1 Thanks stix, thats kind. I joke about it but its a hazard. I am going to be going into money making mode here shortly to tend to it, which means I will be playing everywhere i can all the time. Which will mean y’all will get sick of me (if you arent already) and will effectively end my career. But if I time it right, when I have no place to play, I will have a porch to sit on, which will be nice.
There were rumors late saturday of a fall party at Rancho Notso Grande. Sweet was even talking about renting a bouncy castle, which I thought was brilliant, and led me to the “non food pot luck party” concept.
It sounds fun, but is it foolish? Has anyone ever invited the internets to their house? What are your thoughts/prayers? (on topic at last!) What would you bring? How could we manage to not all get arrested? Am I insane?
Perhaps I better pray on it a bit.
This is what happens when you invite the internets to your house.
Sounds like fun and I promise not to crap in the bouncy castle.
@15 i already volunteered my lightup palm tree.
do it, monty! Party sounds fun and I fucking love moonbounces, I need a black eye in time for the prizefighter fashion trend that’s about to kick off Fall 08. If the whole thing gets outta hand, I’ll take care of making amends with the neighbors. I mean, I’ll apologize, but I won’t take off my glasses. they’re famous.
oh, prayer… I pray for… um … i guess I don’t pray that often. prayer for something ridiculous: I pray for a dive bar with a juke box that plays the clash, well drinks for $3 or less, and a photo of Pope JP II behind the bar. I would drink there every day.
@15 don’t worry b’yo, there’s only like 10 of us.
@ 18, mc just made a unique brand of joke that’s only come about in the last few years, with the wholesale adoption of the internet for communication. this joke can only be funny for the glassy-eyed sliver of the populace who chanced to be actively engaged in the internet during the peak hours of the source of the joke. peak typically lasts about 24-48 hours from the onset of the source (usually a video, but also a picture, or a retarded email forward) and dies almost more rapidly than it arose. if you didn’t see it, it can never be explained or re-created.
you see, the joke is dependent only marginally upon the actual substance of the source material, and gleans the bulk of its novelty from the all-too-familiar hysteria of, “you guys, everybody is talking about it, oh my fucking god, i can’t believe you haven’t seen it, here, watch it on my iphone.”
soooo if you were around when the video clip in question circumnavigated this vast cold plane, you’ll get mc’s joke. if not, you won’t.
[in a more-than-likely third scenario, thor re-posts the video in like 17 weeks and says something like, “oh my fucking god, you guys, a new video nobody’s ever seen before.”]
everyone meet parlie, the internet’s angriest tour guide.
@ 15 - you know, you could always spin from your porch when you get it fixed. that might get you some nice walk-by partygoers! or not…
and yes, you are insane. but if you hurry up and have this party soon, i can bring the poison ivy for you! woooo!
/you can thank me later
poison ivy? hmm…
my confused trepidation, let me show you it.
Ohmigod it worked! Gas down to 3.459 now at middle peninsula exxons!
@ 24 i can look, but i dasn’t touch!
- i should say that more often. hmmm.
Erh on a note, oil prices are dictated by how much a few folks speculation to supply and demand in the future; not how much we are consuming this moment…
/just saying
wow that didn’t make sense; I meant, -some praying is definitely involved just not to that God Dude.
On a positive note, I seem to predict the increase vs. decrease of every days oil prices with a 50% margin of error, that is pretty good -I think.
I wish for a public transportation to Proffit Rd preferably a magnetic driven suspended monorail.
I get hot when I think Kinetic
twoofour I missed you baby!
circle jerk!