I heard something different in church recently.
I recommend the Cherry Raspberry Ale, by the way…. you can tell I’m definitely comfortable with my manliness that I can recommend that while wearing a pink shirt.
- Pastor Phil Taylor, Terra Nova Church
Drinking is, by far, the least mentioned – in evangelical church culture – among all of Christ’s non-biologically mandatory activities. As if not mentioning it will feel more comfortable. As if Tolkien and Lewis aren’t tiltin’ back a St. Thomas Pale Ale together at this very moment.
Tilt one back with me, Dog.
- Dwarven Demolition Squad, Warcraft 2
So as I tried the ale on one of my pastors’ recommendations (man, I love saying that!) I thought to myself… self… different is good. And you don’t have to know me long to know I tend toward difference. [*yawn* this is two narcissistic posts in three days] I prefer to err on the side of action, rather than inaction… to err on the side of words, rather than silence (a decidedly unpopular stance in modern Christian culture). But that makes me different… and I’m cool with that.
Anything different is good.
- Bill Murray, Groundhog Day
There are a paltry, yet non-zero, number of exceptions to different being good… like if you just won a marathon you probably don’t want anything different right then… or if you just dodged a bullet… or if you just had a healthy baby. However, in the mundane world of the daily slave-ballet there’s more than enough room for some spice… a little something something.
Bam! Kick it up a notch!
- Emeril Lagasse
My spice comes despite myself. For instance… some people associate salt and pepper… I associate salt and vinegar. Some think of bread and cheese (or water or wine), where I’m more bread and circuses. Some associate ale and pubs… I think of ale and wenches (too many Elizabethan movies). I’ve never deliberately espoused nonconformity… it just wouldn’t feel right any other way.
…Because Allah loves wondrous variety.
- Morgan Freeman, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Life is too short to bow to the expectations of others. Life is too short not to be different.
I'm a Christ-follower, compelled by my faith toward reason, which points directly toward conservatism. This world's daily onslaught of lunacy offends my intellect and senses, so this is my venue to blow off steam.
I like it! thanks…..:))
Way to cite precedent up there.
For the record, I’m reasonably sure you meant to say err, not error.
Quotes to live by! Methinks me needs to start an anti PC movement to replace common sense back into society.
Mmm mmm good *smacks lips in thirsty fashion* methinks, again, me needs to sample some cherry raspberry ale as well, only because the pastor recommended it of course!
That cherry raspberry ale is actually pretty good. I despise beer, but I’ve had that and it’s quite good.
Speaking of Elizabethan, “Shakespeare, I’m coming after you, Shakespeare…..”
(Of course, very few reading this will understand this comment at all without explanation, which WarAxe would be best at explaining.)
John :: Son of a gun, you’re right! Time to go back to grammar class and learn when nouns aren’t verbs. It looks so goofy this way, though.
BA :: It’s a good thing I specified which pastor, otherwise you might have thought Loudonville.
Yeah, right!
alissa :: next time you’re up BA and I will have to take you out and tilt back a few of those. I got to almost the very bottom of my first one before I actually realized there was a cherry in there!
Ken :: Oh boy, that’s a blast from the past.
You quoted a line from a death metal song I wrote and “recorded” back in high school. I did it for an English class project I was doing on Shakespeare, and I spent the whole song blasting him. 
If I were to still have that track it would need a content label… I really hated Shakespeare back then. 
To paraphrase: ‘I love the smell of Cherry Raspberry Ale in the morning!” Or perhaps: “And the beer I had for breakfast was not bad, so I had one more for dessert.”