Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Just call me Amos - The Amish Superhero

Today's message is brought to you by the Amish Internet. Notice all my pop-ups... Speaking of Amish, they were in the news again recently. Apparently an Amish boy was arrested for minor in possession who was drunk, stealing numbers off of peoples houses, and stealing their flower pots. They found the numbers and the pots in his buggy. Something tells me he isn't going to stay Amish. Not that I am anti-Amish or anything. Occasionally we will see them whenever I visit Pennsylvania. One time we saw an Amish family and their buggy parked by a Denny's. They were wearing the traditional black clothes and hats. As we get further and further in time, their behavior is going to seem stranger and stranger. Seriously the best thing about the Amish is their corn. If you've ever had Amish corn you know what I am talking about. I wonder what my life would've been like had I been Amish..... I would've played acoustic guitar instead of electric. I probably would have been kicked out for not waking up in the morning and leaving my clothes all over the place. I can picture the town meetings now... "He must go, we have no cheese left, no cheese." "Yes, he keeps on playing his acoustic way too loud at night and we are trying to sleep." "He keeps on writing if-then-else statements and using up all of the ink in our quills." "He mows one foot of lawn and takes a break. A break! It took him 5 days to mow the front, 5 days!"

Thought of the Day
JERRY: So you won't believe what happened with Whatley today. It got back to hime that I made this little dentist joke and he got all offended. Those people can be so touchy.
KRAMER: Those people, listen to yourself.
JERRY: What?
KRAMER: You think that dentists are so different from me and you? They came to this country just like everybody else, in search of a dream.
JERRY: Kramer, he's just a dentist.
KRAMER: Yeah, and you're an anti-dentite.

JERRY: I am not an anti-dentite!
KRAMER: You're a rabid anti-dentite! Oh, it starts with a few jokes and some slurs. "Hey, denty!" Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools.
JERRY: They do have their own schools!
KRAMER: Yeah!....

Comments:
When I was younger, we used to go to Indiana about once a year to see my grandmother. There was always lots of Amish people in the area. It seems like it would be a very peaceful life. They don't know, and don't care, about the problems going on in the world. They don't know about the war in Iraq. They don't know about rising gas prices. They have no TV schedule to keep, since they don't have TV's. All they know is working hard, eating well, and God. Jess and I watched a reality show last year, where a bunch of Amish kids went to live in LA with a bunch a modern kids. It was interesting to see how they hadn't seen any movies, or heard any hit songs. It's a different world out there. Incidently, if you haven't seen the movie "Witness" with Harrison Ford, you should see it. It has a lot to do with the Amish.
Peety
 
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