A friend wrote today about helping with a move, but deciding with others involved to call in professionals to move a piano. It reminded me of this short by my favorite film comedians, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. The Music Box won an Oscar and still makes me laugh out loud.
My friend also reminded me of my own piano-moving story.
Back when I was young and stupid (as opposed to older and stupider), we had a cleaning day at our church on Harris Avenue in Columbus. Someone told a group of us that the pastor wanted a piano moved from the balcony down to the front of the sanctuary. The stairwell had a landing and a turn. But we did as we'd been asked.
A little while later, the pastor was in the sanctuary and asked, "Why is this piano here?" It turned out his words had been misinterpreted.
So, we moved the piano back up the stairs to the balcony.
This turned out not to be my favorite day.
I think my friend and his fellow movers made the right call in bringing in professionals.
A sinner saved by the grace of God given to those with faith in the crucified and risen Jesus Christ. Period.
Showing posts with label Laurel and Hardy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laurel and Hardy. Show all posts
Thursday, February 08, 2018
Sunday, December 20, 2015
An interview with Stan Laurel from 1957
Conducted shortly after Oliver Hardy died, in this interview, Stan Laurel looks back on his career, with and without Hardy.
When I was in junior high school, I absolutely loved the dual biography, Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy. Comedic actor Dick Van Dyke, who just turned ninety, wrote a beautiful introduction and remembrance for the book. I'd recommend it.
Laurel and Hardy are still my all-time favorite comedians. They always crack me up.
What an amazing memory the elderly Laurel had.
When I was in junior high school, I absolutely loved the dual biography, Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy. Comedic actor Dick Van Dyke, who just turned ninety, wrote a beautiful introduction and remembrance for the book. I'd recommend it.
Laurel and Hardy are still my all-time favorite comedians. They always crack me up.
What an amazing memory the elderly Laurel had.
A random this and that
For a time, I presented Saturday This and That, links to and thoughts spun from articles that had caught my attention the week before. I haven't done one for awhile. So, here's a This and That composed of articles from the past few weeks.
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Has science really found a way for people to keep from looking stupid? A Hungarian research project mentioned at The Huffington Post, claims that three things can make people look stupid: overconfidence, a lack of control, and absent-mindedness. Come to think of it, a good chunk of comedy is comprised of one, two, or all three of these traits.
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If you have a bad attitude about aging, it may impact how you age.
10 Historical Myths About World Christianity purports to set the record straight on a lot of common negative stereotypes of world Christianity.
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Why Lutherans and others use liturgy in worship. A current trend among millennials is an attraction to what's come to be called "traditional" worship, using liturgy.
Liturgy means work of the people and in the Christian tradition, it's a structure by which people collectively come together in the presence of God to worship, praise, hear God's Word, offer ourselves to God, and receive the sacraments.
I didn't grow up in the liturgical tradition, but as the years go by, it means more and more to me, for many of the reasons cited in this article. We even use liturgical structure in our "contemporary" worship at Living Water.
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Has science really found a way for people to keep from looking stupid? A Hungarian research project mentioned at The Huffington Post, claims that three things can make people look stupid: overconfidence, a lack of control, and absent-mindedness. Come to think of it, a good chunk of comedy is comprised of one, two, or all three of these traits.
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If you have a bad attitude about aging, it may impact how you age.
People who held more negative thoughts about aging earlier in life had greater loss of hippocampus volume when they aged. In other words, the researchers say, people who held negative age stereotypes had the same amount of decline in three years as the more positive group had nine in nine years.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
...People who had more negative age stereotypes had significantly higher scores of plaques and tangles than people with more positive feelings about growing old.
10 Historical Myths About World Christianity purports to set the record straight on a lot of common negative stereotypes of world Christianity.
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Why Lutherans and others use liturgy in worship. A current trend among millennials is an attraction to what's come to be called "traditional" worship, using liturgy.
Liturgy means work of the people and in the Christian tradition, it's a structure by which people collectively come together in the presence of God to worship, praise, hear God's Word, offer ourselves to God, and receive the sacraments.
I didn't grow up in the liturgical tradition, but as the years go by, it means more and more to me, for many of the reasons cited in this article. We even use liturgical structure in our "contemporary" worship at Living Water.
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