What's in a name?

 

"Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon)..."

It is certainly a long name but, in these times when one strives to please the identity of others, I feel it is important to address Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon) by his full name.

Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon)'s name has grown over about the last fifteen or so years. From memory, it was about 2007 when he started blogging. He started off with a blog that went under the name of The Curmudgeon. For some reason, he thought that he needed different nom de plumes for different topics that he wanted to write about. Philosophy? "That will be the job of The Philosophical Curmudgeon." he thought. Laziness? Yes, that is covered by The Lazy Curmudgeon. I think you get the idea.

Along the way, Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon) decided to pinch a character from Richard's Bass Bag*. The New Different Time Zone Bill. With a little more thought he could have come up with The Time Travelling Curmudgeon, or something like that. You don't hear a lot, or get many posts, these days from quite a few of his 'characters'. For some reason, The Blue Man no longer appears on the list. This seems unfair when people like The Polemical Curmudgeon, Northland Musings and Right As Rain don't seem to be contributing much at all.

Maybe it is time for Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon) to thin down the list a bit. I'm sure that quite a few of his characters are now obsolete.

Ah well, I suppose he enjoys the length of his creation and, what with Robert writing huge posts about things like Transubstantiation (though that one got deleted), it gives Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon) a chance to match word numbers with him.

Everyone to their own, I suppose.

If it makes you happy, go for it Peter (aka The Literary Curmudgeon, Peter’s Golf Bag, The Wine Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon Express, Right As Rain, The Twitter Curmudgeon, The Inconstant Curmudgeon, The Cultured Curmudgeon, The Lazy Curmudgeon, The Music Curmudgeon, The Food Curmudgeon, The Religious Curmudgeon, The Mundane Curmudgeon, The Church Of The Blessed Curmudgeon, The Nostalgic Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeon’s – Agony Aunt, The Aluminium Foil Curmudgeon, Irascible Old Bastard, The New Different Time Zone Bill, Northland Musings, The Curmudgeon, The Curmudgeonly Luddite, The Curmudgeonly Inventor, The Happy Curmudgeon, The Polemical Curmudgeon, The Philosophical Curmudgeon, Deacon Tanimate and The Darker Curmudgeon).

Ciao tutti.

* the original bass bagging site

Transubstantiation.

 Now, there's a big word!

Peter (aka THE LITERARY CURMUDGEON, PETER'S GOLF BAG, THE WINE CURMUDGEON,THE CURMUDGEON EXPRESS, RIGHT AS RAIN, THE TWITTER CURMUDGEON, THE INCONSTANT CURMUDGEON, THE CULTURED CURMUDGEON, THE LAZY CURMUDGEON, THE MUSIC CURMUDGEON, THE FOOD CURMUDGEON, THE RELIGIOUS CURMUDGEON, THE MUNDANE CURMUDGEON, THE CHURCH OF THE BLESSED CURMUDGEON, THE NOSTALGIC CURMUDGEON, THE CURMUDGEON'S - AGONY AUNT, THE ALUMINIUM FOIL CURMUDGEON, IRASCIBLE OLD BASTARD, THE NEW DIFFERENT TIME ZONE BILL, NORTHLAND MUSINGS, THE CURMUDGEON, THE CURMUDGEONLY LUDDITE, THE CURMUDGEONLY INVENTOR, THE HAPPY CURMUDGEON,THE POLEMICAL CURMUDGEON, THE PHILOSOPHICAL CURMUDGEON, DEACON TANIMATE and THE DARKER CURMUDGEON) challenged the blogger, now known as Rob, to convince him (them) that Transubstantiation is true.

For those of you who may not have heard of it, Transubstantiation is the process where bread and wine are turned into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Sounds logical enough. Anyway, on his blog, you'll find it under 'Robert' on our LINKS service, he wrote an explanation that is about a million words long.

I tried to read it all and got over halfway through it. I left a comment.

You've got to say, "Good on you Robert." for leaving such a 'detailed' reply to Peter (with all the other names that I won't repeat here). The trouble is that I tried very hard to read it all and I wasn't feeling that I was getting a distinct line of information, other than Transubstantiation is true and must be believed. Maybe I (and others) need a distinct summary that clearly sets out the main points?

 I did get the point that Tom Aquinas was/is the greatest of scholastic theologians. He said that the existence in the Eucharist of Christ's real body and blood "cannot be grasped by the experience of the senses. but only by the faith which has divine authority and its support."

The faith which has divine authority and its support.

Robert, can I take that as being the 'magic' ingredient?

I use the word magic because of the definition of the word faith. Maybe that was a bit naughty of me?

FAITH

noun
1. Complete trust or confidence in someone or something.

2. Strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.

Well, I'd better leave it there because it's Sunday and I'm off to mass.

No! Joking!

Ciao tutti.

Sabato

John 16:23b-28

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Until now you have not asked anything in my name;
ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete."

Okay, I copied this from Robert's blog.

1st thing: I suspect that John made a grammar mistake in line 4. It might have been better to say,

"Until now you have not asked for anything in my name."

2nd thing: Ask for anything? I don't believe that Jesus was thinking about the crazy things that some people might ask for. (I won't go into details - use your imagination.) Maybe Jesus should have added the phrase, "Within limits."

Jesus probably didn't have this in mind.

Or this.

Okay, Robert will argue that there were no giant beer cans on trucks or luxury yachts in biblical times, but you get the idea.

Fortunately, Robert goes on to give us a bit of an explanation.

Well, I guess that's that one cleared up.

* * *

Readers are probably expecting a post from Peter (aka The Curmudgeon) today. 

The last post was from The Religious Curmudgeon (same guy really) and that wasn't a bad thing after Peter's previous attempt.

Then we hear all about the courtesy car and how you drive it. Then we get a little bit about the weather up north. I suspect that Peter had been drinking when he wrote this post.

Ah well, that's me for this morning.

Ciao tutti.

It's not the end of the world.

I went along to our local cards club. They said you needed to bring your own cards. Earlier that day I had meant to pick some up but had forgotten. I searched all the cupboards and draws in our house as it was now time to go to the club. All I managed to find was some very small playing cards. I got to the cards club and sat down at one of the tables with three other people. The three of them looked at my cards.

One of them said, "Hey, they are very small cards."
I thought for a second and then I replied, "No big deal."

Friday.

Named after Friedrich Fri, a little known (these days) Presbyterian saint who used to fly around like a fly.

There's a story that some Catholics made a huge fly swat and used it on him.

It evidently took six Catholic men to lift up and swing the fly swat. The fly swat in now in the National Museum in Bonn.

Bonn. Germany.

It tells us, in the museum, that there was a song written about the event. Here it is, translated from German to English.

He was a peaceful man of the cloth,

Who used to sleep up in a loft.

He cooked his own pigeon pie and

Then he'd go for a fly.

Whether the weather was wet or dry

Didn't bother Friedrich Fri.

Whether the weather was wet or dry

Never bother Friedrich Fri.

One day, while using a pencil,

He saw an almighty utensil.

It was red and very large,

Six men were in charge, one called

"We've got you a pressie, flying Presby!"

They started to swing it around while

Poor old Friedrich started to get off the ground.

They started to swing it around while

Poor old Friedrich tried to get off the ground.

Friedrich nearly peed when saw it

Coming with such speed.

He tried to fly but cried,

Shortly afterwards he died.

He tried to fly, he really tried, but

Shortly afterwards he died.

There is a lot of evidence of this story being true and it was almost made into a film in the 1960s, but some Catholic called Joe got to be in the film instead. A lot of German Presbyterians don't trust Catholics to this very day. Who can blame them? 

Next time you're in Bonn, have a look in the National Museum.

Bis bald. Genieße deinen Tag.

Jesus, "Talk in English so that Peter and Robert can understand."

 

Joseph, "Okay, what's on your mind son?"

Jesus, "Well, you're not really my father because God did the bonking."

Joseph, "Yeah, I know. I didn't even have time to get it out. Still, we look like a happy family in this picture."

Jesus, "So, do you believe that I'm the son of God?"

Joseph, "Well, actually, I believe in Nothing."

Jesus, "What? What do you mean?"

Joseph, "Well, there is a very old saying about Nothing. It's a very powerful concept. There is a phrase that people have used forever. A phrase about Nothing."

Jesus, "Really foster dad? Is it more important than me and my real dad?"

Joseph, "Well, yes, actually. It simply says that Nothing is forever."

Jesus, "Holy Hell! Oops, please pardon the expression."

Joseph, "That's okay, foster son. Just tell your real dad to get off his high horse. Remember, Nothing is forever."

Jesus, "Holy shit!"

Gesù, "Babino, m'avete chiamato?"

 

Guiseppe, "No caro, ho colpito un dito del piede."

Gesù, "Perbacco!"

Guiseppe, "È una rottura di culo."