When I was a little guy, in my first few years of school, the nuns told us about Saint Francis of a sissy. This was the first instance in my life of a badly pronounced language. At my school there were two nuns, an Irish nun (Sister Mary) and an Australian nun (Sister Emilion).
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Sister Emilion was quite nice and Sister Mary could be a nasty piece of work. Both of these women could not pronounce Italian so they put silly ideas in the heads of their young students. Assisi is a place in Italia.
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This was because I did that 'take' with no warm up or rehearsal. I hadn't touched a teapot or a trumpet mouthpiece for a very long time and a teapot is quite a slippery thing to pitch on. Well, at least my playing got a critical comment from him, instead of that non-committal stuff like, "I read this post."
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By the way, St. Francis's real name was San Francesco. There's actually a restaurant named after him, near a church that also bears his name. I wonder if there is a barbershop named after him?
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| "Frank's Fine Cuts. Don't be a martyr, get the latest look! We promise you a cool head." |
Ciao tutti.
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Didn't your mother or grandmother tell you that you had to warm the teapot up first?
I don't usually drink tea.
You don't usually recognise humour either.
That remark "Didn't your mother or grandmother tell you..." was closer to engineering advice than humour.
You should take a ride on a crowded bus in which all the seats are taken. That's the closest you'll ever get to being a stand up comic.
:P thbbpt. <
The barbershop might be called "Off the top of my head".
Robert should get a haircut like that.
I've almost got one and it was free.
It was actually a conspiracy perpetuated by barbers to attract more business.
Yes Robert, we all know that people experiencing episodes of non-ordinary states of consciousness accompanied by various emotional, perceptual, and psychosomatic manifestations are undergoing an evolutionary crisis rather than suffering from a mental disease. This fact has important practical and theoretical consequences. If properly understood and treated as difficult stages in a natural developmental process, these experiences—spiritual emergencies or transpersonal crises—can result in emotional and psychosomatic healing, creative problem-solving, personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. is fact is reflected in the term “spiritual emergency,” which suggests a crisis, but also suggests the potential for rising to a higher state of being.
I remember being taught this at school in 3P's Transpersonal Studies class. You and Richard were probably doing the joining up dots exercises in the other classes.
I do think though that our teacher, Father Hyasakyte, who claimed to be in direct communication with the sacred realms and divine beings was in fact under the influence of some pretty strong medication.
Hey! In 3G we also did jigsaw puzzles!
I thought so. I've seen that bookshelf you built. I guess you were used to having a piece missing.
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