Hi Ate Us

Spidey (and scarf) 2
Spidey (and scarf) 2, orig­i­nally uploaded by m!les.

As the title phoe­net­i­cally sug­gests, I’m going to lay off post­ing dur­ing this next week. That means that the next time you see me post a pic­ture (because who reads the words, any­way?), it’ll most likely be almost a week from now.

What you should consider:

I nor­mally don’t quote scrip­ture or talk about church that much, unless I’m mak­ing an ill-taken point, but I liked today’s Gospel. It had it’s share of slap­stick and omni­nous. First off, I was con­fused because it’s the gospel of John and he’s talk­ing about John (the Bap­tist). So, for a cou­ple para­graphs, I was think­ing, “Man, John sure has an ego, doesn’t he.” Then the Jews send priests and Fair-I-Sees to check him out.

FIS: Who are you?
John: I am not the Christ.
FIS: What?
John: I just… I want to make it per­fectly clear that I am NOT the Christ. John — write that down a cou­ple times.
FIS: What, then? Are you Eli­jah?
John: No, I’m not.
FIS: Are you the Prophet?
John: No, I’m not.
FIS: Why don’t you just tell us who you are.
John: I am the voice of one cry­ing in the wilder­ness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isa­iah said.
FIS: AHAH! So, you’re Isa­iah.
John: No. I am NOT Isa­iah.
FIS: What, are you bugged?
John: No, I got a guy tak­ing notes. Don’t put that part in, John.
FIS: Then you didn’t really answer my ques­tion, did you. You just gave us a quote.
John: Okay, you want some real info? There is one among you whom you do not rec­og­nize. He is the Christ. You must kill him.
FIS: Seri­ously? We should kill him?
John: No, I’m just kid­ding. John, don’t put that part in. We done here?
FIS: Yeah. We’ll just mark “Isa­iah” in our book. No charges will be filed. Kill him… Not a bad idea.
John: Oh, no. I’ve made a huge mistake.

And that, friends, is verbatim.

5 thoughts on “Hi Ate Us

  1. I used to work for a com­pany that typed tran­scripts of dif­fer­ent things via cas­sette tape, and many times I had to do it ver­ba­tim. One time I played it backwards…the next thing I knew, I was stand­ing above some dead guy with a knife. I stopped work­ing there.

  2. Hmmm, funny i dont remem­ber hear­ing that part dis­cussed in my Jesus in His­tory class. The prof must of for­got about the com­edy of John i guess. Sucks to be him i guess.

  3. Wow, I’ve been miss­ing out this story of John all my life until now!?
    Man, sucks to be me AGAIN!!!