No. 442: "Swayed in the Water"
"We're sucked in a world of wickedness and vice, and we need to speak clearly without stutter or stammer," declared the Rev. Adrian Rogers, whose committee drafted the Southern Baptist Convention's revised Baptist Faith and Message statement. This morning, Wednesday, in Orlando, the group approved his one-sentence statement on women. What does it say?
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Monday's Question (No. 441)—"Owe, Canada!":
Reflecting the views of many of his colleagues on a matter affecting all Americans, J.C. Anderson of Calgary, Alberta, said, "We are going to have to drill the pants off this basin. Then, we are going to have to go north." What does he do for a living?
"He's the guy who goes up to basins in that commercial and says, 'Nice pants.' "—Francis Heaney
"He is going to perform unnecessary dentistry on anyone who will sit still, and then he's getting the hell out of town."—Rose White (Ellis Weiner and Julie Baker had similar answers.)
"I'm sorry, I'm too upset to answer. I've just been voted off the island."—Jon Delfin
"Um, is it possible for me to give an answer to this one without it becoming the property of Microsoft?"—Greg Diamond
"J.C. Anderson: So ... What's yours stand for?
J.C. Watts: You go first.
J.C. Anderson: (whisper) Jesus Christ.
J.C. Watts: Me too!
(They embrace. Curtain.)"—Jon Zerolnick & Josh Kamensky
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