Ode to Spell Checkers

ODE TO SPELL CHECKERS

I have a spelling checker
I disk covered four my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot see.

Eye ran this poem threw it.
Your sure real glad two no.
Its very polished in its weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.

A checker is a blessing.
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays comes posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore wee rote with checkers
Hour spelling was inn deck line,
Butt now when wee dew have a laps,
Wee are not maid too wine.

And now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults in awl this peace,
Of nun eye am a wear.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaws are knot aloud.

That's why eye brake in two averse
Cuz Eye dew want too please.
Sow glad eye yam that aye did bye
This soft wear four pea seas.


from www.mikeysFunnies.com

Keeping You Up to Date

It's been a while since anyone posted here, so I thought I'd add a few photos with a bit of news from the College, especially since it seems that most of the photographs on this blog have disappeared since our server was updated...

David Turtle and Nick McKnight were sent out from Edgehill to the scary world of ministerdom in July - David's in Ballynahinch and Nick's in the Ards Peninsula. Also departing from the College were fulltime students Mr. Spence, Ms. Dorrian, Mr. McCann and Mr. Storbeck - although now I've typed that list I'm sure I've missed someone out: feel free to add a comment to this post to let me know who!

Stephen Hill left the College in the Autumn, after five years of sterling service as Administrator. We wish him well.

And Colin Milligan became a Daddy at the start of term!

Ministry Students 2006-7

Just in case you wanted to see what the ministry students look like, here's a wee photo. Note the prayerful attitude of June Parke.

Interpretations

The following post is composed from excerpts from remarks made by the outgoing student chair after the Edgehill End of Year Service and placed here by request:

At Edgehill we are encouraged in our biblical studies to use a range of interpretive lenses so that we might have a more rounded appreciation of the text.
Using a similar approach the following is an interpretation what was one of the highlights of the ministerial students’ year – a formation weekend to Dublin’s fair city.
Of course we want to be culturally sensitive in these politically changing times.And in the light of the renewed commitment to peace by the UVF and Red-hand Commando it seemed appropriate to look at our Dublin weekend through the hermeneutic motif of militant loyalism.

Brigadier Clutterbuck and General Boldt commanded the volunteers to be mobilised at 1400 hours for a cross border incursion.
In classically disciplined tradition, around 1530 the two service units left base camp and proceeded towards the border where a separate mission had caused sufficient traffic chaos to allow both detachments to pass across undetected.
The inclusion of two native speakers in the units greatly assisted the mission but one of these was found to be lacking in knowledge of the local terrain resulting in one group having reduced times to consume rations.
General Boldt then gave an opportunity to learn of the local methods of negotiating and trading for arms and drugs, which was coupled with training in intimidation and extortion. A large consignment of pineapple grenades was obtained.
Running throughout the weekend was the usual variety of ambushes from Volunteers McKnight and Hamilton but the most troubling moment of the incursion arose when Volunteer Newell from the Mid-Ulster Battalion went AWOL in Dublin city centre.
General Boldt feared that he may be planning to launch a solo attack (unauthorised by the leadership) on one of the city’s leading tourist attractions which Volunteer Newell had earlier looked on with great admiration due to the magnitude of its wheels.
Thankfully Brigadier Clutterbuck was able to locate, detain and court marshal the offender.

Later in the evening, a phone call seemed to indicate that ‘even the dogs in the street’ were aware of the events of that night. Having left Volunteer Hamilton to spend some of the proceeds of racketeering in one of Dublin’s 5 star hotels the units then returned to the safe territory of Ulster to resume normal operational duties.

As with most hermeneutics – all of that probably makes just a little sense to very few people, so it is possibly better to say that it was a very positive and constructive weekend in which we learned a lot about ministry in situations of mixed culture.

Thanks was expressed to the various staff of the college which was followed by....

I think it would be fair to say that Richard has felt the pressure of Heather not being around for the past few months – not least the realisation that Nick is going to circuit claiming to be exclusively Clutterbuck material.
So we say a special thank-you to you Richard for all your hard work trying to keep us on track – and we promise we won’t tell Heather how soft you were while she was gone or about your confession about the terrible waste of time that journaling is.

A Time to Pray

We're taking part in the 'From Our Knees' call to continuous prayer on the island of Ireland... You really should join in! Click here to sign up online for an hour (or more!)...

Lenten Devotions

Another website for you to have a look at, it's the Lenten Devotions from Goshen College in the States. Thought you might like it, or even be tempted to subscribe to the daily e-mail service!

http://www.goshen.edu/devotions

NI Elections Blog

As the Assembly Elections draw nigh you might like to hear what a variety of Christian commentators have to say about them. NI Elections 2007 is a blog with contributors from Evangelical Alliance, CCCI, IFES etc...

http://www.nielection2007.blogspot.com/