by William Thornton » Fri Nov 25, 2016 6:49 am
The BL family top commenters have decided to have a holiday dinner party. Keith, Fox, Flick, Haruo, Sandy, ET, Dave, Neil, Ed P, Timothy, myself, and spouses will be present.
After considerable negotiation the following ground rules were adopted:
1. There will be no discussion of politics whatsoever.
2. There will be no discussion of theology.
3. The weather will not be discussed, not even in the most casual manner.
4. One sarcastic comment gets the speaker a warning; a second causes loss of dessert; a third and the vile offended is expelled.
5. Each and every conspiracy theory should be checked at the door and picked up on the way home and are totally banned from the gathering.
6. No charts or graphs. Period. Doesn't matter how cute they are. No charts.
7. No discussion of denominational politics, Baptist, Methodist, moderate, liberal, conservative, fundamentalist.
8. No discussion of the latest outrage du jour, LGBTQEIEIO incidents, florists, bakers, butchers, or candlestick makers.
9. Conversation shall beheld in English, not Esperanto.
10. NCAA football shall not be discussed.
11. There will be no mention of a string of random names, phantom connections, Birchers, Birthers, Spartanburg FBC, Molly Worthen or any other obscure character.
12. There will be no reading assignments given.
This should provide the groundwork for a very pleasant evening. Perhaps we could talk of grandchildren and the latest additions to Haruo's hymn collection.
My stray thoughts on SBC stuff may be found at my blog,