Blurbs
- Here’s the latest list of blurbs submitted by Lingamish readers. If the total gets to 100 before January 1, 2009, I made a foolish vow to read the REB version of the Bible from cover to cover in 2009.
- David Ker is biblioblogdom’s Erma Bombeck! (Esteban Vázquez)
- Lingamish is the hippoest blog in the bibliopotomusphere! (James McGrath)
- David Ker? Who the devil is that? (Jim West)
- Lingamish, you are shameless–you know that, don’t you? (thainamu)
- Lingamish is the most provocative blog in the multiverse!(Peter Kirk)
- Reading Lingamish makes me want to wallow in a wadi of words! (ElShaddai Edwards)
- I came to Lingamish for the insight, but I stayed for the hippo pictures (and vice versa). (Will Fitzgerald)
- Lingamish, you are my Velvet Elvis, my Blue Like Jazz, and my Why Men Hate Going To Church, all wrapped up in one. You drive me back to my Bible every time I read your blog. (Lingamish’s Dad)
- Lingamish: Three years of blogging and no Apocalypse yet. (Chuck Grantham)
- “Lingamish is a must-read for all who love each other, hate each other, or simply co-exist. Don’t leave home without it.” (Damian)
- Lingamish is the leviathan of biblical blogs. (Job 41:1)
“Can you pull in the leviathan with a fishhook or tie down his tongue with a rope?) (Rudy) - Thanks to David Ker’s blog…the bug zapper light in the jungle of biblical blogs. (Rudy) n
- Lingamish: There aren’t 100 readers so the 20 of us who do are obliged to write 5 blurbs each. (Jim West)
- Lingamish: The one advantage of reading David’s blog is that it keeps one from eating too much. (Jim West)
- Lingamish makes toffee-nosed blogging seem almost normal…sometimes. (Tim Bulkeley)
- Lingamish is almost always stimulating and never (or at least not too often) really silly. (Tim Bulkeley)
- Lingamish makes coffee seem lace collared. (Tim Bulkeley)
- I know how much weight you’ve gained in five months. (B)
- Lingamish the only blog whose writer gains weight at the expense of his readers. (Tim Bulkeley)
- Lingamish the only sharp, witty and profound biblioblog NOT to properly appreciate the REB. (Tim Bulkeley)
- Lingamish: He’s not N.T. Wrong. Probably. (Chuck Grantham)
- Thanks to Lingamish, I only have 1435 minutes a day to kill. (Chuck Grantham)
- Lingamish, always Wrong but never NT. (Peter Kirk)
- Lingamish, always NT (or OT) but never Wrong. (Peter Kirk)
- Lingamish makes bombastic Bible bashing seem boring. (ElShaddai Edwards)
- Read Lingamish because has the courage to admit he hates slogging through the original Biblical languages as much as you secretly do! (Chuck Grantham)
- Lingamish is the peanut M & Ms of biblioblogging. (Chuck Grantham)
- Lingamish is the lentil soup of the Internet. You know it’s good for you, but you’re not exactly sure why… (ElShaddai Edwards)
- Lingamish: Closing Comments And Redirecting Readers Since 2008. (Jim West)
- Lingamish: Home of the pasty pale white African biblioblogger. (Jim West)
- David Ker: Biblioblogdom’s Paula Abdul. (Jim West)
- Lingamish is the only blogger in the universe who knows how to turn his own new year’s bible reading resolution into a daring public-vow dare and get technorati ratings out of it to boot. (J. K. Gayle)
- In Lingamish’s own words: “my keen Biblical insights have caused the scales” (J. K. Gayle)
- Another Lingamish self-referential quotation: “mythical status as a missionary cut” (J. K. Gayle)
- Then there’s Lingamish’s own confessions: “I’m beginning to think” followed by the nearly comprehendible “I made a foolish” (J. K. Gayle)
- Lingamish, my favorite blogger. (J. K. Gayle)
- Lingamish is uh – a mixture of Sanskrit and Hebrew – a curious name. (Bob MacDonald)
- There’s something wrong with David. (Miss Wilson (David’s first-grade teacher))
- Lingamish is the whipped cream to my mocha (Cameron)
- “The whole point of Lingamish is to decide who burns at the stake.”* (Damian) [Ed. note: This is in reference to a statement I once made about theology: The whole point of creeds is to decide who gets burned at the stake.]
- Lingamish is gonna get biblical on yo’ donkey*. (Damian) [Ed. note: For the background on this censored blurb, see the comments.]
- Fact: Lingamish loves hippopotami. Why? There was a hippopotamus in the stable with the baby Jesus. (Damian)
- Nobody need ever read a commentary again: Lingamish is here! (Damian)
- Lingamish: speaks more wisdom than Balaam’s … animal. (Peter Kirk)
- Lingamish: serving collared greens to lace collars for over three years. (ElShaddai Edwards)
- Lingamish is the Radar O’Reilly of the 4077th Natural English Bible Unit. (ElShaddai Edwards)
- Lingamish: an American in Africa who lives in Hippoland. (jane)
- Lingamish-would be bloggy perfection if it only had cat pictures. (nora)
- David Ker: the Bishop Nazir-Ali of Mozambique. (Peter Kirk)
- Lingamish: Chastising hippo-potty-mouths in biblioblogdom. (James)
- Before I began reading David Ker’s blog I was a good man. But after only a short time of reading Lingamish’s execrable drivel, my life began to change. Now I’m a wretch, thanks to David’s help. ((Esteban Vázquez)
- David Ker is the Asaph of Biblioblogging (agathos)
- David is the sort of person who writes for others – you can always tell the others by their haunted expression! (agathos)
- Before I began reading David Ker’s blog I was annoying. But after only a short time of reading Lingamish’s high minded scribblings, my life began to change. Now I’m an unknown celebrity thanks to David’s help. (Scripture Zealot)
- To blurb or not to blurb, that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous bloggers,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them. (Ruth Hubbard) - TNIV @ Amazon.com: $14.99
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Lingamish: PRICELESS (Ruth Hubbard)
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Lingamish: Closing Comments And Redirecting Readers Since 2008.
Lingamish: Home of the pasty pale white African biblioblogger.
And now for #5:
David Ker: Biblioblogdom’s Paula Abdul
#5 is a beauty.
Lingamish is the only blogger in the universe who knows how to turn his own new year’s bible reading resolution into a daring public-vow dare and get technorati ratings out of it to boot.
In Lingamish’s own words: “my keen Biblical insights have caused the scales”
Another Lingamish self-referential quotation: “mythical status as a missionary cut”
Then there’s Lingamish’s own confessions: “I’m beginning to think” followed by the nearly comprehendible “I made a foolish”
And now for #5:
Lingamish, my favorite blogger.
Lingamish is uh – a mixture of Sanskrit and Hebrew – a curious name.
There’s something wrong with David.
Lingamish is the whipped cream to my mocha
5 is a lot of blurbs. For the record:
“The whole point of Lingamish is to decide who burns at the stake.”
Lingamish is gonna get biblical on yo’ donkey*.
Fact: Lingamish loves hippopotami. Why? There was a hippopotamus in the stable with the baby Jesus.
Nobody need ever read a commentary again: Lingamish is here!
I have fulfilled my commitment to blurbing.
Ed. note: * Word changed in honor of the Christmas season.
miss wilson is very wise- and damian has a potty mouth
Damian, those are great. Just remember, Americans refer to the animal that Mary was riding as a “donkey.” Please don’t use the other naughty word. Theologians are listening.
“And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day?” (Numbers 22:30, KJV – surely I’m allowed to quote that?)
For a modern equivalent, consider how Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was described..
Lingamish: speaks more wisdom than Balaam’s … animal.
That’s four for me as you accepted both Wrong versions.
King James says it’s OK, but Uncle Jimmie objects.
Lingamish: serving collared greens to lace collars for over three years.
i only object because potty mouth damian wasn’t talking about balaam’s ass. which reminds me, my OT prof in seminary once remarked,
‘God spoke through an ass once, and he does it all the time still’.
words to remember….
he also said- ‘you people shouldn’t tape your sermons and take them to old people. they’ve suffered enough!’
of course, this wit was also the one prof who started whoring with a student and left his wife for the trollop… so while he had wit, he lacked decency and class.
*Donkey is a naughty word in America? You crazy Yanks. Next ya’ll be claiming that ‘urinateth*’ is naughty too (1 Samuel 25:22, 25:34, 1 Kings 14:10, 16:11, 1 Kings 21:21, 2 Kings 9:8). Or you’ll try to ban Paul’s letter to the Phillipians due to gratuitous use of the word σκύβαλον.
Ed. note: * Words changed in honor of the Christmas season.
Blurbs, people!!! I need blurbs. Clock’s a-tickin’.
Lingamish is the Radar O’Reilly of the 4077th Natural English Bible Unit.
(and if I’ve counted right, that makes the max of five for me…)
(for the slow-witted, “Natural English Bible Unit” = NEBU = New English Bible Update = REB)
Lingamish: an American in Africa who lives in Hippoland.
BTW I absolutely LOATHE Hyacinth Bucket and would much rather you read the Bible in Geordie or Black Country. Please don’t assume all we Brits come from the home counties – even though my Liverpuddlian hubbie tells me I am terribly RP despite being born only 10 minutes down the road from Shakespeare’s birthplace.
Joyeux noel from a wet Berlin – now that I’ve further uped your technorati ratings perhaps I’^ll even get around to going to church!
bises
JAne
Lingamish-would be bloggy perfection if it only had cat pictures.
Lame, I know, but I want to make you read the REB. Will be coming up with four more lame ones.
David Ker: the Bishop Nazir-Ali of Mozambique.
Take that whichever way you want. That’s my five.
Oh and Merry Christmas to everyone here.
Lingamesh: Chastising hippo-pottymouths in biblioblogdom.
Lame, but I want to see you read the REB!
Merry Christmas,
James
Before I began reading David Ker’s blog I was a good man. But after only a short time of reading Lingamish’s execrable drivel, my life began to change. Now I’m a wretch, thanks to David’s help.
David Ker is the Asaph of Biblioblogging
Selah
Lewis Plagiarism:
David is the sort of person who writes for others – you can always tell the others by their haunted expression!
That’s the spirit!
Before I began reading David Ker’s blog I was annoying. But after only a short time of reading Lingamish’s high minded scribblings, my life began to change. Now I’m an unknown celebrity thanks to David’s help.
To blurb or not to blurb, that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous bloggers,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them.
ha, ha…what?
TNIV @ Amazon.com: $14.99
Gallon of gas in Orlando: $1.57
Pez Hippo on Stripe BonBons Card on eBay: $4.95
Lingamish: PRICELESS
Love it!
David Ker…without his stuff to link to, my blog would be a wasteland of cat pictures and flowers. Or maybe not.
50 and perhaps 60 something:
Ker, the blogger who sells coffee mugs and tee shirts and fair-trade hippos for cash and for technorati points.
Ker, the blogger who goes on about hippos but never in the R-rated ways Aristotle would write about hippos.
Ker, who will not pack his heavy copy of the REB in his own suitcase.
Ker, the blogger who doesn’t know the meaning of Sayonara, thinks it’s Aloha or something, and tends to exemplify Bon Voyage.
“Bon Voyage” yall.
Mahalo.