Last week I shared with you my five favourite comedians, but this gentleman I left until this week so that I could share with you five of my favourite songs of his. Jay Foreman is a comedy musician. I discovered him when he was the warm up act for Dave Gorman who was featured last week, and he really was superb! Enjoy 🙂
The Sooty Show
Royal Wedding
Moon Chavs
What else has Dick Van Dyke been in?
Stealing Food
If you find someone who claims they didn’t initially pick up this book because of its cover, I bet they’re lying! The author even ended up talking to the public from a matching sofa! Yes, I did pick this book up because it was a brightly coloured, geometric pattern, but normally I’d have a quick look and put it down again. Instead, I read the back and thought, gosh this sounds interesting. And I wasn’t wrong.
I take forever to read non-fiction, so the fact this took three months isn’t a bad thing. If you saw the number of page corners I’ve folded down, that speaks for itself. For each chapter, the book takes a character (or occasionally a book) and the paradox tied in with it to look at, so the book could be dipped in and out of, chapter by chapter if you wanted to. The chapters are as follows:
He highlights in his introduction how these aren’t questions every asks, but that a lot of people avoid asking, for fear of shaking our faith. At one point I was going to put in here the bit from each page that I folded down, but that would now be a tad excessive. But I’ll share two or three – Kandiah’s text is littered with citations, quotes and footnotes, so I’ve given credit to others where it’s due:
“Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentence, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confessions.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“It was no accident, either, that God appeared to Moses as a flame. The movement of a flame and its bright colours attract us, and yet the heat of the flame pushes us away.”
“There is no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.” – D F Wallace
There’s a lovely story from a Royal Film Premiere when he didn’t quite get to meet the Queen, an excellent look at the hotel with infinite rooms problem, and wave particle duality and Schrodingers Equation. He also introduces us to some paintings and the significance in what they show – I felt quite well educated after reading this!
The only critique I’d give this book is that some chapters could have been helped by starting with either an overview of the story of the character we were looking at, the relevant bible passage, or at least a reference to the correct bible passage. I have to confess, when we jumped into Habakkuk, I didn’t have a whole load of background knowledge to go by!
If Harry Potter went to Hogwarts school of Prayer and Miracles
Innovations that should have happened by now
I love a bit of comedy, who doesn’t?! I’ll nearly always pick something light to watch over something heavy. I’d say my list of favourite comedians is quite mixed – some very mainstream, some much more obscure that you may well not have heard of (unless I’ve talked your ear off about them already!) Maybe you’ll find something new that you like here today! In most cases I’ve just picked one clip per comedian, but if you like it, go on Youtube to find more! Most of these clips are fairly random samples. Here we go, and as always, these are in no particular order:
Dave Gorman – I couldn’t decide which clip I liked more so you get 2 as a bonus!
Milton Jones
Michael McIntyre
Dara O’Briain
Adam Hills
I also really enjoy Jay Foreman who is a comedy musician, so I’ve decided that instead of including him in here, I’ll do my Friday Five Favourite Jay Foreman songs soon 🙂
The Aussies are petitioning to change their currency to the DollaryDoo
Couple served leftover food at their wedding
Reasons to love Ned Flanders – I’ve always listed him in my heroes!
Back To The Future fan theories
Things Back to the Future got right and wrong
Woman who can diagnose Parkinsons just by smell
In case you live under a rock, today is “Future Day”, the day which Marty McFly travels to in Back To The Future 2. I decided a few months ago that it’d be fun to take the day off and watch all three films!
I forgot just how great these are, so I decided to write down some of my favourite quotes as I went. The thing is, the film isn’t that quoteable – a lot of the humour and cleverness only works in context, but I’ve written down the few gems that too work on their own:
BTTF
“There’s that word again! Heavy! Why are things so heavy in the future, is there a problem with the Earth’s gravitational pull?”
“Why don’t you make like a tree, and get outta here?”
“I’m George, George McFly, I’m your density!”
“I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it”
“Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads!”
BTTF part II
“The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they’ve abolished all lawyers”
“You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy!”
“I foresee two possibilities. 1: coming face to face with herself 30 years older would put her into shock and she’d simply pass out. Or 2: the encounter could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe! Granted, that’s a worst-case scenario. The destruction might in fact be very localised, limited to merely our own galaxy.”
“Boy oh boy mum, you sure can hydrate a pizza”
“That’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship”
“I know you just sent me back to the future, but I’m back. I’m back from the future.”
BTTF part III
“Marty, you’re not thinking fourth dimensionally!”
“See you in the future”
“You mean the past”
“Exactly”
“I wish I’d never invented that infernal time machine”
“Your future hasn’t been written yet, no one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.”
And for all three films….
“Great Scott!”
Of course, the real joy in watching it today was seeing all the things they predicted we’d have by now: highways in the sky, thumbprint taxi payment, fax machines on the path, and so much more – the BBC have a great article on this.
Tom from the band McFly who were named after the main character of these films, also pointed this out last night:
Universal have also released a message from the Doc himself
Will Smith, the pop star, is back!
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https://twitter.com/Queen_UK/status/650412940651298816
They’re making a sequel to Enchanted
How long it takes to start binge-watching different shows
Who really wrote The Playbook in HIMYM?
Sweden are trying out a 6 hour working day
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