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[Protoevangel]

Sent to me via email:

[font=Verdana,Arial]Remember ABBOTT and COSTELLO Jokes? Hope you enjoy this one. In today's world, Bud ABBOTT and Lou COSTELLO's famous sketch "Who's on first?" might have turned out something like this.... [/font]

[font=Verdana,Arial]
COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT . . . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks.I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer.I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look in the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows.I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer!I need something I can use to write proposals,track expenses and run my business. What have you got?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, lets just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't start with some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the Internet?
ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need!
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: If it's a long movie I also want to see reel 2, 3 & 4. Can I watch them?
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great! With what?
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do?
ABBOTT: You click the blue "1".
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what?
ABBOTT: The blue "1".
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w?
ABBOTT: The blue "1" is Real One and the blue "W" is Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there's three words in "office for windows"!
ABBOTT: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there.
COSTELLO: And that word is real one?
ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn't even part of Office.
COSTELLO: STOP! Don't start that again. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer
COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT! [/font]

[font=Verdana,Arial]A FEW DAYS LATER . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT: Click on "START".......... [/font]

 

[JVAC]

Hi Searching...

The BoC means "Book Of Concord" - www.bookofconcord.org it is the Lutheran Confessions.

ELCA is one of the Lutheran church bodies. It stands for Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Others you may see mentioned are the LC-MS (Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod), WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod), and ELS (Evangelical Lutheran Synod)

Oh, and yes you can post here, you are asking questions and not debating... welcome!

Perhaps we should add "an understanding of Lutheran Abreviations" to our FAQ

-James

 

[Lotar]

Perhaps we should resume creating our faq in general.

 

[JVAC]

Perhaps we should resume creating our faq in general.

That is a pointless post!



-James

 

[searchingforGodlyanswers]

Social Gospel: What is this? I know what The Gospel and the Gospels are...
She sees the confessions and closed communion as a barrier to her to worship. I grew up under baptist parents, but watched a lot of movies and comedy tv sitcoms with catholics confessing. Is your confessions the same as what would be in tv show with traditional catholics as characters? How does the closed communion work?
And what's Real Presence?

 

[Rechtgläubig]

Social Gospel: What is this? I know what The Gospel and the Gospels are...
She sees the confessions and closed communion as a barrier to her to worship. I grew up under baptist parents, but watched a lot of movies and comedy tv sitcoms with catholics confessing. Is your confessions the same as what would be in tv show with traditional catholics as characters? How does the closed communion work?
And what's Real Presence?

Wow lots of good questions.

No our confessions are not the same that you see on TV. We do a public confession during the service as a group, but you can still go to your pastor in private to confess something specificly and expecially troubling. We then recieve Absolution which is an annoucement of God's love and forgiveness which has been bought and is freely given to us. On TV you will commonly see the priest give out a prescription of acts that need to be done. "Father forgive me I have..." "Say 10 hail mary's and call me in the morning...". I'm being silly, but I am sure you know what I am talking about.

Close Communion is when a body (synod) only lets those that are in doctrinal agreement Commune. This can be closed to nonChristians, non-Lutherans (who don't believe in Real Presence), and to those who do not hold doctrinal unity with us, as Communing is a strong expression of unity (1 Corinthians 10:16-17).

 

[Music4Hym777]

Some one please answer this one for me:

My friend, an LCMSer doesn't know what the LCMS believes or even what the LCMS is or stands for. How does this happen? (She has been going there for about a year or two).

I also have an LCMS friend who doesn't know that LCMS is her home church synod, she only knows it as Missourri Synod. Is that normal?

 

[SPALATIN]

Some one please answer this one for me:

My friend, an LCMSer doesn't know what the LCMS believes or even what the LCMS is or stands for. How does this happen? (She has been going there for about a year or two).

I also have an LCMS friend who doesn't know that LCMS is her home church synod, she only knows it as Missourri Synod. Is that normal?

All things considered she shouldn't worry about it too much as she is at least in the right church, but it wouldn't hurt her to know enough to understand the differences.

 

[JVAC]

There are no Lutheran Churches or even Episcopal Churches here in Fresno that have a Saturday evening service!! I find that really odd and what is even more odd is that they almost all have a 10:30 service! So what if someone is leaving for something early sunday morning? or get's into town Sunday evening? Oh, this isn't a rant thread....

-James

 

[Bradford]

Some one please answer this one for me:

My friend, an LCMSer doesn't know what the LCMS believes or even what the LCMS is or stands for. How does this happen? (She has been going there for about a year or two).

I also have an LCMS friend who doesn't know that LCMS is her home church synod, she only knows it as Missourri Synod. Is that normal?

First, LCMS- I've only heard it here. Everyone at St. Paul's just says Missouri Synod- even refers to the Wisconsin Synod, instead of the WELS. No harm, no foul.

She doesn't know what the Synod teaches, though? Book of Concord time for her- or maybe just time to perk up, and start paying attention?

 

[Ashlynne]

*Feeds Gummy Warms to the Birds*

 

[JVAC]

*Feeds Gummy Warms to the Birds*

Muahahahahahaha

 

[JVAC]

It is really funny to see Katie Luther lurking the forums!!! (Waves to bradford )

I also noticed that I don't have room on my buddy list for Saint Martin Luther (Gasp)

-James

 

[Ashlynne]

Sent to me via email:

[font=Verdana,Arial]Remember ABBOTT and COSTELLO Jokes? Hope you enjoy this one. In today's world, Bud ABBOTT and Lou COSTELLO's famous sketch "Who's on first?" might have turned out something like this.... [/font]

[font=Verdana,Arial]
COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT . . . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks.I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don't own a computer.I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name's Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don't know. What will I see when I look in the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows.I need a computer and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer!I need something I can use to write proposals,track expenses and run my business. What have you got?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows! OK, lets just say I'm sitting at my computer and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue "W".
COSTELLO: I'm going to click your blue "w" if you don't start with some straight answers. OK, forget that. Can I watch movies on the Internet?
ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I watch is none of your business. Just tell me what I need!
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: If it's a long movie I also want to see reel 2, 3 & 4. Can I watch them?
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great! With what?
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: OK, I'm at my computer and I want to watch a movie. What do I do?
ABBOTT: You click the blue "1".
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what?
ABBOTT: The blue "1".
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w?
ABBOTT: The blue "1" is Real One and the blue "W" is Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there's three words in "office for windows"!
ABBOTT: No, just one. But it's the most popular Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren't many other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all the other Words out there.
COSTELLO: And that word is real one?
ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real One isn't even part of Office.
COSTELLO: STOP! Don't start that again. What about financial bookkeeping? You have anything I can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That's right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer
COSTELLO: What's bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer? How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn't it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT! [/font]

[font=Verdana,Arial]A FEW DAYS LATER . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT: Click on "START".......... [/font]

hahaha
this is very cute
Ashlynne

 

[Bradford]

It is really funny to see Katie Luther lurking the forums!!! (Waves to bradford )

I also noticed that I don't have room on my buddy list for Saint Martin Luther (Gasp)

-James

How did you know it was me!?!?

 

[Bradford]

I just need

 

[Bradford]

Two blessings to try and win the game back from Katie

 

[ChiRho]

This is wild...

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mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?

 

[ByzantineDixie]

Now you can understand why there was such a fuss about the Fashion label acronym for French Connection United Kingdom. There is no way around the word that we read when we see that acronym and it is not a marketing mistake that we are taken there.

Incidentaly, both my youngest son and my husband have some kind of wiring deficiency (similar, although not exactly like dyslexia) and struggle with written and verbal communications. When my sister-in-law e-mailed a paragraph similar to what you posted, neither of them even saw anything out of the ordinary at first and wondered what the point of the e-mail was!!!

Peace

Rose

 

[Flipper]

Hey Rose - weren't you wanting my take on The DaVinci Code when I finished the book? I don't remember if it was you or another. I'm finished if you want it.