Ok, so this isn’t a forward, but the last post reminded me of this. You know how churches have those “witty” sayings on their signs, like, “Eternal Forecast: Reign Forever?” One time we saw one that said “The best vitamin for a Christian is B!” What do you think it’s supposed to mean?

P.S. Have you seen the Church Sign Generator?

Sorry this is late. Sadly the (probably animated) .gif files accompanying this e-mail weren’t displaying. But it’s still spiritually edifying.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

A friend sent an early “Valentine” to see if it will make it around the world by Feb. 14th.

For God so loV ed the world,
That He gA ve
his onL y
BegottE n
SoN
T hat whosoever
Believeth I n Him
Should N ot perish,
But have E verlasting life.”
John 3:16

Send it around the World

If you’re about to complain that the letters don’t line up, don’t, because that’s pretty much how it looked when it got to me. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the letters that spell “Valentine” are supposed to line up. BET YOU DIDN’T KNOW GOD SENT A SECRET VALENTINE MESSAGE THROUGH JOHN HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO!

I’ve been thinking lately about sending CDs out to bands and venues. It’s been too long since I’ve performed frequently. The problem is I’m not sure I want to play as just “Greg Kamprath.” My thinking is:

1. My name isn’t especially easy to remember.


2. It would be nice to be able to perform with a band as well as by myself.


3. It would be nice for the people in the band to be able to say, “I’m in the band such and such” instead of “I play in Greg Kamprath’s band.”

In the process of coming up with names, Eric and I talked about using words with identical singular and plural forms. That way, when I’m playing by myself, the word would be interpreted as singular, and when I’m playing with a band, it would be heard as plural. We couldn’t think of that many. Do you know some? So far there’s:

• deer


• fish


• moose


• sheep


• aircraft


• pants

Ok, I can’t identify this person because I would both feel bad, and because he could probably track a link back to my site… But there is a guy who books events at my hotel, and he’s trying to become a syndicated cartoonist. And I went to his website, and it was really bad. So we’ll play a word game for you to figure out what the name of the cartoon is, and then you can google it. The words in parentheses have to be replaced by a synonym.

“(soda, coke) (scientology, heaven’s gate)ure s(whore, mispelled garden implement)ck th(age, period)py”

I don’t have to tell you this, but references to things everybody knows about do not equal humor. It’s telling when he describes how he originally came up with the idea for the cartoon.