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In celebration of my transition point in the Summer from part-time teaching back to my regular gig, and because I can use it, I thought I would share with you a few of my favorite places to have Twitter bring you some humor.  To the twitter-intelligentsia out there these are probably already familiar to you, but maybe someone out there will find these new and entertaining.<\/p>\n

The first is simply an acknowledgement of some very sharp and refined Presbyterian humor from PCAPresbyter<\/a> during GA season.  While he does have amusing tweets during the off-season, how can you match such great lines as he had during the PCA GA.<\/p>\n

The PCA has a strong theology of penal substitutionary amendments.<\/p>\n

GA: God’s plan for cultivating perseverance in Presbyterians.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, so maybe only the other polity wonks are ROTFL<\/a> with stuff like that but I always enjoy when we can take a moment to step back and not take ourselves too seriously.  Well done PCAPresbyter!<\/p>\n

Now, for religious humor that is not quite as refined, but that can also be a very funny insight into our foibles and idiosyncracies, I would point to the well know religious humor outlet XIANITY<\/a>.  While this source puts out several satirical posts a day, a few of my favorites aimed at the Reformed folks include:<\/p>\n

ROME: Reformer gored during the Running of the Papal Bulls.<\/p>\n

MIRACLES: Report of entire Presbyterian congregation being raised from dead turns out to be everyone standing to sing hymn #78<\/p>\n

FOOD: Calvinists pressure General Mills to change name of popular cereal to Providential Charms\u00ae\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And of a more general theme:<\/p>\n

CHURCH: Shabbat riot ensues as Messianic Jew replaces shofar with vuvuzela. #worldcup<\/p>\n

LOCAL: Sunday service delayed after Pastor loses keys to “Church of the Open Door”<\/p>\n

BREAKING NEWS: Bizarre kindergartner responds with something other than “Jesus” to Sunday School teacher’s questions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nMoving on to the refined, but secular, the writers and journalists out there probably already know about FakeAPStylebook<\/a>, a twitter feed that satirizes that bastion of journalistic and literary advice, the venerable AP Stylebook<\/a>.  Recent gems include:<\/p>\n

there\/their\/they’re – What,seriously? This confuses you?<\/p>\n

Sprinkle the word “quantum” throughout science articles, particularly if you have no idea what you’re talking about.<\/p>\n

Never say anything about a colleague in a private e-mail that you wouldn’t put in print, since it’s going to end up there anyway.<\/p>\n

Real estate listings should not describe a building as a “murder house.” Be specific: ax murder house, chainsaw murder house.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And finally, moving from twitter accounts to hashtags and the satirical to the ridiculous, in a play on the Wikileaks drama<\/a>, there is now a Star Wars send-up called #wookieleaks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

DiscordianStooj: Empire covering up evidence that bombing of asteroids damages the habitat of endangered space slugs. #wookieleaks<\/p>\n

FireLifeSafety #Wookieleaks Investigators claim sprinkler systems would have prevented Death Star explosions.<\/p>\n

peterhau RT @KendalCole: Skywalker rumored to have spoiled Christmas for Vader, “I felt his presents.” #wookieleaks <- now that’s a good twitter joke!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some Twitter humor that I follow that I pass along for your reading enjoyment.  Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

So, having gotten that little bit of ardor out of my system we return to our regularly scheduled order here on this blog. Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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