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Message started by mick on 11/23/10 at 13:11:29

Title: Only in Texas
Post by mick on 11/23/10 at 13:11:29

this was sent to me from my cousin who lives in Paris.

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Texas Beer Joint Sues Church

In Mt. Vernon, Texas, Drummond’s Bar began construction on expansion of their building to increase their business.

In response, the local Baptist church started a campaign of petitions and prayers to block the bar from expanding.

Work progressed right up until the week before the grand reopening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.

After the bar burned to the ground by a lightning strike, the church folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about “the power of prayer” until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church “was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means”.

In its reply to the court, the church vehemently denied all responsibility and/or any connection to the building’s demise.

The judge read through the plaintiff’s complaint and the defendant’s reply and at the opening hearing he commented, “I don’t know how I’m going to decide this, because it appears from the paperwork that we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that now does not.”

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by drharveys on 11/23/10 at 13:18:49

As for me, I believe in the saving power of the lightning rod and proper grounding! ;D

Title: Re: Only in fiction
Post by verslagen1 on 11/23/10 at 14:04:47

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/prayer.asp

Title: Re: Only in fiction
Post by mick on 11/23/10 at 14:12:47

716275746B6660626936070 wrote:

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/prayer.asp

Listen up folks we have a new name for Verslagen "KILLJOY"
At I my meagre attemt at a little fun story the above moderator shot me down in flames. thanks killjoy

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by runwyrlph on 11/23/10 at 19:13:06

now, now moderators! stop fighting!
or we'll have to hire some regulators to keep the peace (since we are in Texas here)

:)

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by verslagen1 on 11/23/10 at 19:59:09

I was hopin' to find the verdict, instead all I found was the truth.

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by stinger on 11/23/10 at 22:01:33

sneaks into Micks yard and sets up a lighted nativity scene.

Title: Re: Only in fiction
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 11/23/10 at 22:38:41

31353F3728343930353139255C0 wrote:

[quote author=716275746B6660626936070 link=1290546689/0#2 date=1290549887]http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/prayer.asp

Listen up folks we have a new name for Verslagen "KILLJOY"
At I my meagre attemt at a little fun story the above moderator shot me down in flames. thanks killjoy[/quote]

You think he woulda dona any different if he wasnt a moderator.

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by mpescatori on 11/24/10 at 04:50:17

If I were the Baptist preacher, all I'd need to prove my case is a $1 bill.

It reads "In God We Trust". It is legal tender eagerly accepted as over-the-counter payment commodity by the bar owner.

So HE acknowledges it is "good".

So, an "act of God" cannot be blamed on the prayer group, all they did was to ask the building to stop, not to suggest a specific way to stop it.

Come on, even Moses asked to cross the Red Sea, all he wanted was a B R I D G E, but no, he had to WADE his way across...
...got his feet wet, too... :D

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by mick on 11/25/10 at 21:36:30

484F52555C5E493B0 wrote:

sneaks into Micks yard and sets up a lighted nativity scene.

Mick chases Stinger from his yard with this.

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr311/mickrowe37/002-4.jpg

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by mick on 11/25/10 at 21:47:47

lf the 357 doesn't work I shall use my last resort, se please beware,
drum roll please,and please stand back ,and please do not try and feed
the beast,you have been warned.

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr311/mickrowe37/003-14.jpg

Title: Re: Only in fiction
Post by Paladin. on 11/26/10 at 01:01:44

55515B534C505D5451555D41380 wrote:

[quote author=716275746B6660626936070 link=1290546689/0#2 date=1290549887]http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/prayer.asp

Listen up folks we have a new name for Verslagen "KILLJOY"
At I my meagre attemt at a little fun story the above moderator shot me down in flames. thanks killjoy[/quote]
Actually the Snopes' page is better than just a joke. It says

Quote:

The story isn't supposed to be read as relating something that happened in real life; it's a modern day admonition to churchgoers not to allow transient secular needs to get in the way of their faith. What a person believes or will stand up for shouldn't change because there's a monetary factor involved; otherwise, it's not true belief. As the fictional judge points out, there is something untoward about a congregation so willing to put worldly matters first that it denies it believes in prayer.

While the tale is an exaggeration of its underlying moral, that overstatement is a way of prompting folks to measure the contents of their hearts against those of the fictional congregation to see if they themselves aren't at times engaging in a bit of religious distancing. Do they set aside their faith, and their pride in it, when faith becomes inconvenient? Or do they stand up for their beliefs and proudly proclaim them, even when doing so is to their disadvantage, financial or otherwise?

How many people hold money as their Principle instead of honestness and fairness?

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 11/26/10 at 06:50:48

44404A425D414C4540444C50290 wrote:

[quote author=484F52555C5E493B0 link=1290546689/0#6 date=1290578493]sneaks into Micks yard and sets up a lighted nativity scene.

Mick chases Stinger from his yard with this.

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/rr311/mickrowe37/002-4.jpg

[/quote]

Hey, Mick, I forgot what that tool is for, the circle with the pin poking out.
Also, if you swing the cylinder out & use the Eject rod, is there a pin ( or 2 ) in the cylinder that lines up with holes in the Star shaped thing that shoves the empties out?

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by mick on 11/26/10 at 08:00:12

Justin, that little pin / key is the Safety,if you look just above the butten you push to unlock the cylinder,there is a very small hole with a square pin inside,that key fits that,I never use it because I'm afraid of losing the bloody thing,it's so small. And I did not see any pins on ejector doohicky ,you mean pins to help line it up ?
Unless your gun was made a tad different it should have the safety,
if not another one, isn't the law that they have a safety device on all guns ?

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 11/26/10 at 08:02:45

I have no idea how old mine is. Got it from a pawn shop around 20 years ago. I see 2 holes in the back side of the cylinder that line up with holes in the "star" that ejects the empties. Ive wondered if there are supposed to be pins in the cylinder to fit into the holes on the "star",,

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by mick on 11/26/10 at 08:10:42

223D3B3C21261727172F3D317A480 wrote:

Deffinatly not ,I just checked it out (again) and no pins to line up cylinder with ejector star. Did you see the key hole for the safety ?

Title: Re: Only in Texas
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 11/26/10 at 09:54:59

I havent gone looking, but I sincerely doubt its there. Next time I have it out, Ill have a look, tho.

That said, I sure dont remember seeing anything like that when I had it apart & was doing the trigger on it.