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May 28, 2011 1:27 AM Subscribe
Psalty and COLBY, two singin' dancin' spiritual guides for kids. Presented by Everything is Terrible.
See also John Brownlee's "I Was A Pre-Teen Christian Supercomputer!"
posted by dansdata at 1:54 AM on May 28, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by dansdata at 1:54 AM on May 28, 2011 [3 favorites]
You can own Colby's Missing Memory on DVD for only four bucks. Apparently it's 53 minutes long. The thought of sitting through that gives me the willies.
posted by Rhomboid at 2:35 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Rhomboid at 2:35 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
I grew up with Psalty audio tapes, but never saw the videos. Psalty was a lot less creepy-looking in my head.
posted by neushoorn at 3:15 AM on May 28, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by neushoorn at 3:15 AM on May 28, 2011 [4 favorites]
The overacting, the terrible wooden dialogue, the eye-pooping costumes, stuff like this makes me glad the Jews control Hollywood.
posted by orthogonality at 3:21 AM on May 28, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by orthogonality at 3:21 AM on May 28, 2011 [4 favorites]
Great find, dansdata - that is a nice companion piece to these videos. The whole of the COLBY robot song seen in the EiT clip - warning: kind of catchy.
posted by AndrewStephens at 3:23 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by AndrewStephens at 3:23 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
When I was a child in the 80s this is what America looked like.
posted by Summer at 3:25 AM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Summer at 3:25 AM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
Christianity being fun and playful for kids works about as well as conservative humor. Mind you, I may just still be bitter that I never got a decent role in the neverending productions of It's Cool in the Furnace my lifeless suburban Presbyterian church put on in the ongoing desperate struggle for currency.
If I had kids, they'd be getting their bible stories from folks who know how to do bright colors and garish costumes right, and who enjoying telling the really fun stories from the Bible.
The Bible is metal, man.
posted by sonascope at 4:03 AM on May 28, 2011
If I had kids, they'd be getting their bible stories from folks who know how to do bright colors and garish costumes right, and who enjoying telling the really fun stories from the Bible.
The Bible is metal, man.
posted by sonascope at 4:03 AM on May 28, 2011
COLBY makes the baby Asimov cry.
posted by PlusDistance at 4:17 AM on May 28, 2011 [5 favorites]
posted by PlusDistance at 4:17 AM on May 28, 2011 [5 favorites]
Oh my God this brought 9 years of Catholic school memories flying back like 100 daggers at my head. We performed two Psalty and Colby plays...
posted by thorny at 5:00 AM on May 28, 2011
posted by thorny at 5:00 AM on May 28, 2011
I would have expected a Christ-bot to be a little more butch. COLBY's personality chip seems to have been designed by Paul Lynde.
posted by Scoo at 5:28 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Scoo at 5:28 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
wow, I recall these all too vividly. We had the cassettes; COLBY and Psalty, Charity Churchmouse, and Antsylvania - which i just searched for and found is actually spelled Antshillvania - were all big parts of my childhood experience.
The song for Antshillvania is a deadly earworm, probably because I heard it so many times as a kid. thinking about the words now is actually kind of startling; "You don't have to be a great intellectual to understand the wisdom from above" is kind of jarring for me to hear as an adult, even though a lot of the rest of song is about sharing and love.
I've met a few other people who remember this stuff, and it's a laugh to try and remember some specific songs or phrases, like "P-p-p-pipe down, Cecelia!" and the song about being master of your fate and captain of your soul - in the story, that's a bad thing, so Antony soon gets his comeuppance - but I always thought this stuff stayed in the cul-de-sac of Christian music. So I was startled to find out that Antshillvania was nominated for a Grammy...
Perfect timing, as I was just thinking about this record this morning... which turns out to be an Oscar Wilde story. I always thought it was another Christian kids' album.
posted by dubold at 5:29 AM on May 28, 2011
The song for Antshillvania is a deadly earworm, probably because I heard it so many times as a kid. thinking about the words now is actually kind of startling; "You don't have to be a great intellectual to understand the wisdom from above" is kind of jarring for me to hear as an adult, even though a lot of the rest of song is about sharing and love.
I've met a few other people who remember this stuff, and it's a laugh to try and remember some specific songs or phrases, like "P-p-p-pipe down, Cecelia!" and the song about being master of your fate and captain of your soul - in the story, that's a bad thing, so Antony soon gets his comeuppance - but I always thought this stuff stayed in the cul-de-sac of Christian music. So I was startled to find out that Antshillvania was nominated for a Grammy...
Perfect timing, as I was just thinking about this record this morning... which turns out to be an Oscar Wilde story. I always thought it was another Christian kids' album.
posted by dubold at 5:29 AM on May 28, 2011
While I was never exposed to these particular things, my experience growing up in a Nazerene church has taught me to avoid anything from a church library. In fact, I might just avoid church libraries altogether. Except for that Bible NES game, I loved that.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 5:59 AM on May 28, 2011
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 5:59 AM on May 28, 2011
Every once in a while I discover someone else whose childhood was inflected with the Kids Praise album series and their memories of Psalty and Charity Churchmouse (say it with me now, "Gospel! Singing! Staaaar!") and we chuckle over the hamminess of it all. Knowing now how much of children's entertainment is practically designed to be migraine-inducing for adults, I can only imagine what my parents went through then.
Still, we only had audiotapes. Those videos replace the mystique with an extra cringe factor I didn't know was possible.
posted by psoas at 6:05 AM on May 28, 2011
Still, we only had audiotapes. Those videos replace the mystique with an extra cringe factor I didn't know was possible.
posted by psoas at 6:05 AM on May 28, 2011
I saw these two characters live at a Billy Graham Crusade they did in Minneapolis years ago. I remember it being a high energy song and dance thing featuring a thousand voice kids choir. It was very impressive. At one point they had beach balls bouncing in the audience and one hit me on the head. Thats all I remember. That and Psalty actually at the end did a sermon basically guilt tripping me into not having Jesus in my heart. Yikes
posted by wheelieman at 6:13 AM on May 28, 2011
posted by wheelieman at 6:13 AM on May 28, 2011
Oh my God this brought 9 years of Catholic school memories flying back like 100 daggers at my head. We performed two Psalty and Colby plays...
We did treasure island and secular Christmas plays. I grew up in a devout Catholic household with Roman Catholic teachers (some of whom were nuns, brothers and priests) and yet somehow avoided the strange stuff like this (save for the sunday morning circle-square ranch and davey and goliath)
Was it maybe a protestant thing that just infected the American Catholic congregations?
I do remember a memorable moment when a friend from Scotland was thumbing through the hymnal at the local church and found a devoutly protestant hymn and spent the rest of his visit commenting that he fully expected to hear the priest lead the celebrants in "The Sash my Father Wore" sometime soon.
That's about as non-Roman Catholic as it got for me.
Instead we were taught french by a talking pineapple and learned morality from the Kids of Degrassi.
I was peripherally aware of Colby but had the same questions, why would something with no soul be accepted as a spiritual leader? Then I remembered Pat Robertson and it all became clear.
posted by NiteMayr at 6:17 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
We did treasure island and secular Christmas plays. I grew up in a devout Catholic household with Roman Catholic teachers (some of whom were nuns, brothers and priests) and yet somehow avoided the strange stuff like this (save for the sunday morning circle-square ranch and davey and goliath)
Was it maybe a protestant thing that just infected the American Catholic congregations?
I do remember a memorable moment when a friend from Scotland was thumbing through the hymnal at the local church and found a devoutly protestant hymn and spent the rest of his visit commenting that he fully expected to hear the priest lead the celebrants in "The Sash my Father Wore" sometime soon.
That's about as non-Roman Catholic as it got for me.
Instead we were taught french by a talking pineapple and learned morality from the Kids of Degrassi.
I was peripherally aware of Colby but had the same questions, why would something with no soul be accepted as a spiritual leader? Then I remembered Pat Robertson and it all became clear.
posted by NiteMayr at 6:17 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
At various points in my childhood, we had (Psalty's) Kids' Praise 1 and 5 (the camping one) cycling in our car's tape deck, along with The Donut Man's Life Saver and Love Letter albums, along with a few more esoteric selections (one of which was the focus of an AskMe question I submitted a few years ago).
For nostalgia's sake, I looked at the tracklist for each of the four named albums, and found that I was sufficiently familiar with them to immediately play all but one or two songs per album on my soprano recorder. I even considered purchasing a CD and a songbook for each album for nostalgia's sake... before I remembered that I'm an agnostic and such Christian propaganda is not helpful, given the credulous, unthinking manner in which I would no doubt consume them for nostalgia's sake. That I remember them at all is a bug, not a feature.
posted by The Confessor at 6:31 AM on May 28, 2011
For nostalgia's sake, I looked at the tracklist for each of the four named albums, and found that I was sufficiently familiar with them to immediately play all but one or two songs per album on my soprano recorder. I even considered purchasing a CD and a songbook for each album for nostalgia's sake... before I remembered that I'm an agnostic and such Christian propaganda is not helpful, given the credulous, unthinking manner in which I would no doubt consume them for nostalgia's sake. That I remember them at all is a bug, not a feature.
posted by The Confessor at 6:31 AM on May 28, 2011
The only terrible earworm that stands out from my fundagelical childhood turned out to have some actual artistic backing. My wife, I discovered, had spent her childhood tormented by one of the lesser tracks on the same record. (Record, people! Christian vinyl!)
Due to an extremely aggressive book reviewing job, I spent the early 90s reading and reviewing almost every work of fiction and many of the works of nonfiction published by four of the major Christian publishers (Crossway/Good News, Bethany House, Tyndale, and Thomas Nelson). There are some interesting diamonds in the rough, but what really fascinates me is how jaundiced many of the authors are about the market for Christian media.
One author caught my attention with his first novel -- he was essentially writing literary fiction. For the Christian market! Engaging well-differentiated characters, stories that had nothing to do with anyone converting or repenting... And no sales, as it turns out. He labored away for three books that way, until the publisher told him he was being "paired" with one of their top sellers, a sixty-something powerhouse who churned out hundreds upon hundreds of prairie romances and stories of Women Of Faith Fighting For Love In random("1800s Ireland","Ancient Rome","1920s Canada","Ellis Island",NULL));. First collaboration? More than a million copies sold.
I remember him telling a room full of hopeful Christian writers, obviously struggling to be as delicate as possible, "The... the market that we're talking about, it just isn't interested in... in certain kinds of books. And if you want to pay your bills, you have to think about that." Everyone nodded vigorously, and I think I watched him die inside.
Another author had put out a few very interesting childrens' books, stuff that was focused a lot more on interesting metaphors and questions about personal growth and friendship than Jesus Conversions; I cornered him and said I'd thought highly of it. He sighed and looked around, as if checking to make sure there were no editors nearby, and explained to me that the series had barely paid for its weight in paper. After that debacle, his editors had asked him to "dumb it down a little," and in a fit of frustration he'd dashed off the most inane, insultingly shallow Christian childrens' book he could imagine and handed it to them.
It, and the dozen or so sequels it spawned, sold several hundred thousand copies. It paid for one of his kids' college education, and he looked like he'd been sentenced to a gulag. I mentioned to him how much of the output from those four publishers I was churning through at the time, and he gave me a strange look. "Wow," he said. "You've really paid your dues."
posted by verb at 6:39 AM on May 28, 2011 [12 favorites]
Due to an extremely aggressive book reviewing job, I spent the early 90s reading and reviewing almost every work of fiction and many of the works of nonfiction published by four of the major Christian publishers (Crossway/Good News, Bethany House, Tyndale, and Thomas Nelson). There are some interesting diamonds in the rough, but what really fascinates me is how jaundiced many of the authors are about the market for Christian media.
One author caught my attention with his first novel -- he was essentially writing literary fiction. For the Christian market! Engaging well-differentiated characters, stories that had nothing to do with anyone converting or repenting... And no sales, as it turns out. He labored away for three books that way, until the publisher told him he was being "paired" with one of their top sellers, a sixty-something powerhouse who churned out hundreds upon hundreds of prairie romances and stories of Women Of Faith Fighting For Love In random("1800s Ireland","Ancient Rome","1920s Canada","Ellis Island",NULL));. First collaboration? More than a million copies sold.
I remember him telling a room full of hopeful Christian writers, obviously struggling to be as delicate as possible, "The... the market that we're talking about, it just isn't interested in... in certain kinds of books. And if you want to pay your bills, you have to think about that." Everyone nodded vigorously, and I think I watched him die inside.
Another author had put out a few very interesting childrens' books, stuff that was focused a lot more on interesting metaphors and questions about personal growth and friendship than Jesus Conversions; I cornered him and said I'd thought highly of it. He sighed and looked around, as if checking to make sure there were no editors nearby, and explained to me that the series had barely paid for its weight in paper. After that debacle, his editors had asked him to "dumb it down a little," and in a fit of frustration he'd dashed off the most inane, insultingly shallow Christian childrens' book he could imagine and handed it to them.
It, and the dozen or so sequels it spawned, sold several hundred thousand copies. It paid for one of his kids' college education, and he looked like he'd been sentenced to a gulag. I mentioned to him how much of the output from those four publishers I was churning through at the time, and he gave me a strange look. "Wow," he said. "You've really paid your dues."
posted by verb at 6:39 AM on May 28, 2011 [12 favorites]
Whoa. Bringing back memories here too - I'm sure we had some Psalty vinyl when I was a kid. Back before hipster irony was a thing, and people made ridiculous stuff without the slightest thought of how it could be misinterpreted or reappropriated (but then again, niche Christian publications are probably no more aware of irony now than they were back then).
posted by p3t3 at 6:39 AM on May 28, 2011
posted by p3t3 at 6:39 AM on May 28, 2011
Which is to say, subculture media ghettoes are special.
Very, very special.
posted by verb at 6:40 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Very, very special.
posted by verb at 6:40 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Psalty
Or, as my grandma would unfortunately say, Piss-salty.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:13 AM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
Or, as my grandma would unfortunately say, Piss-salty.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:13 AM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
Oh wow, I had forgotten these until now. We had the cassettes for these and the record for Antshill- Antshill- Antshillvania, that's our town. We would like to entertain-ya, come right in and sit down... (Yes, that was entirely from memory.)
posted by lollusc at 7:55 AM on May 28, 2011
posted by lollusc at 7:55 AM on May 28, 2011
Also, the Music Machine ("it's like no contraption that you've ever seen")
"Have patience, have patience, don't be in such a hurry
When you get impatient, you only start to worry.
Remember, remember, that God is patient to
and think of all the times when others had to wait for you."
And what was the one that was like Pilgrim's Progress Lite for Kids? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't remember the title, but it was basically the pilgrim's progress story with songs and with kids as the main characters.
posted by lollusc at 7:59 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
"Have patience, have patience, don't be in such a hurry
When you get impatient, you only start to worry.
Remember, remember, that God is patient to
and think of all the times when others had to wait for you."
And what was the one that was like Pilgrim's Progress Lite for Kids? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't remember the title, but it was basically the pilgrim's progress story with songs and with kids as the main characters.
posted by lollusc at 7:59 AM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Thanks, lollusc. Until your lyrics, I had been reading that as "ant-shill-vania."
posted by thebrokedown at 8:44 AM on May 28, 2011
posted by thebrokedown at 8:44 AM on May 28, 2011
No. My childhood is over. You can't make me go back there. I won't, I won't, I won't...
*guiltily watches anyway*
I hate you.
posted by 1f2frfbf at 8:54 AM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
*guiltily watches anyway*
I hate you.
posted by 1f2frfbf at 8:54 AM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
I remember these. I had a number of the Psalty cassettes. Ah, childhood. Thank goodness that's over and never coming back.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 9:03 AM on May 28, 2011
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 9:03 AM on May 28, 2011
Oh God the terrible childhood memories...
Psalty, Colby, Anthillvania, sure. But does anybody else shiver when they remember Gerbert, McGee & Me, Patch the Pirate, or Adventures in Odyssey?
posted by Ryvar at 12:02 PM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Psalty, Colby, Anthillvania, sure. But does anybody else shiver when they remember Gerbert, McGee & Me, Patch the Pirate, or Adventures in Odyssey?
posted by Ryvar at 12:02 PM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
Antshill- Antshill- Antshillvania, that's our town. We would like to entertain-ya, come right in and sit down...
Honeydew, honeydew, honeydew JAM!
You can do, I can do, we can do honeydew JAM!
Together we can do it, a doodly-doo!
Honeydew, honeydew, honeydew JAM!
posted by functionequalsform at 1:00 PM on May 28, 2011
Honeydew, honeydew, honeydew JAM!
You can do, I can do, we can do honeydew JAM!
Together we can do it, a doodly-doo!
Honeydew, honeydew, honeydew JAM!
posted by functionequalsform at 1:00 PM on May 28, 2011
Having read that I feel like I should prepare for his coming.
That's right. The coming of Nyarlathotep.
posted by JHarris at 1:10 PM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
That's right. The coming of Nyarlathotep.
posted by JHarris at 1:10 PM on May 28, 2011 [2 favorites]
Oh Jesus. Colby.
Would you believe I can still remember a song from the Colby play we "performed" at Captain Kidd's Day Camp at Grace Brethren Church during the "musical week" we had each year...
One of the camp counsellors got to wear the giant Colby outfit, which, thankfully, didn't have the freakish head straight out of my nightmares, but did involve a lot of silver facepaint and a giant keyboard made out of cardboard and coloured with markers across his stomach.
We were supposed to sing this song called "Welcome to the Family" and go out into the audience and hold a person's hand, because we would be helping to win them to Jesus through terrible music sung badly by bored preteens.
And, let me tell you, a miracle occurred, because my dad decided, halfway through the show, that he wanted to start the drive out to Lake Perris for a weekend trip, and insisted that we go with him.
Which meant that I didn't have to sing that song or go out and hold the hand of a stranger. Hallelujah.
posted by Katemonkey at 1:22 PM on May 28, 2011
Would you believe I can still remember a song from the Colby play we "performed" at Captain Kidd's Day Camp at Grace Brethren Church during the "musical week" we had each year...
One of the camp counsellors got to wear the giant Colby outfit, which, thankfully, didn't have the freakish head straight out of my nightmares, but did involve a lot of silver facepaint and a giant keyboard made out of cardboard and coloured with markers across his stomach.
We were supposed to sing this song called "Welcome to the Family" and go out into the audience and hold a person's hand, because we would be helping to win them to Jesus through terrible music sung badly by bored preteens.
And, let me tell you, a miracle occurred, because my dad decided, halfway through the show, that he wanted to start the drive out to Lake Perris for a weekend trip, and insisted that we go with him.
Which meant that I didn't have to sing that song or go out and hold the hand of a stranger. Hallelujah.
posted by Katemonkey at 1:22 PM on May 28, 2011
Ryvar, lunch at my fundy school was spent listening to Patch the Pirate tapes through 3rd or 4th grade. No talking was allowed.
posted by chiababe at 5:46 PM on May 28, 2011
posted by chiababe at 5:46 PM on May 28, 2011
Psalty, Colby, Anthillvania, sure. But does anybody else shiver when they remember Gerbert yt , McGee & Me yt , Patch the Pirate, or Adventures in Odyssey?
Oh yeah, I saw all of the McGee and Me videos, and read a few of the books. I don't think I was exposed to Odyssey as a kid, but if I scan by it while I'm on a road trip, I'll usually stop and listen for a little while. It has that great old-timey-radio feel to it.
posted by roll truck roll at 5:49 PM on May 28, 2011
Oh yeah, I saw all of the McGee and Me videos, and read a few of the books. I don't think I was exposed to Odyssey as a kid, but if I scan by it while I'm on a road trip, I'll usually stop and listen for a little while. It has that great old-timey-radio feel to it.
posted by roll truck roll at 5:49 PM on May 28, 2011
My god, yeah, I had a bunch of McGee and Me. And quite a few Adventures in Odyssey tapes.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 7:18 PM on May 28, 2011
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 7:18 PM on May 28, 2011
ADVENTURES IN ODYSSEY. OH FUCK.
If I remember correctly, that was a damn good radio drama, regardless of the religious spin in every episode. There are quite a few multi-episode arcs that center around Bond-like adventures and shadowy conspiracies. Also, I had the compilation "Mystery episodes" pack as a kid, which served me well on road trips.
Although, I was never a fan of the shmoopy episodes about character problems and shit.
posted by Taft at 7:32 PM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
If I remember correctly, that was a damn good radio drama, regardless of the religious spin in every episode. There are quite a few multi-episode arcs that center around Bond-like adventures and shadowy conspiracies. Also, I had the compilation "Mystery episodes" pack as a kid, which served me well on road trips.
Although, I was never a fan of the shmoopy episodes about character problems and shit.
posted by Taft at 7:32 PM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
I never saw the Psalty videos either.
But I did actually sing and act in a Psalty live musical when I was a kid. I remember the acting being better - but I was also about five.
"don't build your house on the Sandyland / don't build it too near the shore / well, it might be kind of nice, but you'll have to build it twice / you'll have to build your house once more"
posted by jb at 9:03 PM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
But I did actually sing and act in a Psalty live musical when I was a kid. I remember the acting being better - but I was also about five.
"don't build your house on the Sandyland / don't build it too near the shore / well, it might be kind of nice, but you'll have to build it twice / you'll have to build your house once more"
posted by jb at 9:03 PM on May 28, 2011 [1 favorite]
I took many long road trips with my father to visit our family, when I was a young'un. On at least one of those trips, 7 or 8-year-old me had a Psalty tape (given to me, I think, by my mother, who had not yet given up on trying to indoctrinate me into Something Vaguely Christian), which I wanted to listen to on repeat. I feel deep empathy for my father, in hindsight.
Oh childhood. Sometimes it is a good thing that you are lost forever.
posted by Alterscape at 10:13 PM on May 28, 2011
Oh childhood. Sometimes it is a good thing that you are lost forever.
posted by Alterscape at 10:13 PM on May 28, 2011
If I remember correctly, that was a damn good radio drama
It was surprisingly well-done considering who was funding it, yeah.
Which meant that I didn't have to sing that song or go out and hold the hand of a stranger. Hallelujah.
Jesus saves (you from his fan club).
posted by Ryvar at 11:58 PM on May 28, 2011
It was surprisingly well-done considering who was funding it, yeah.
Which meant that I didn't have to sing that song or go out and hold the hand of a stranger. Hallelujah.
Jesus saves (you from his fan club).
posted by Ryvar at 11:58 PM on May 28, 2011
"don't build your house on the Sandyland / don't build it too near the shore / well, it might be kind of nice, but you'll have to build it twice / you'll have to build your house once more"
Oh my. I had forgotten that one. Now it all comes back to me.
"You'd better build your house upon a rock. / Make a good foundation on a solid spot. / Well the storms may come and go / but the peace of God you will know."
I'm getting kind of desperate to know what the Pilgrim's Progress one I mentioned above was. I'd make an Ask post, but I just used up this week's.
All I can remember is a couple of snippets of song:
"Christian, walking along / Hopeful, singing a song / Faithful, happy to see / Christian and Hopeful make it to Celestial City."
And another song that had Christian singing the alphabet backwards: "ZYX WV UTSRQP OMN LKJ IHGFED CBA, now I know it, Zee to A."
The only reference I can find to it by googling is this mention. Does anyone remember this tape at all?
posted by lollusc at 1:57 AM on May 29, 2011
Oh my. I had forgotten that one. Now it all comes back to me.
"You'd better build your house upon a rock. / Make a good foundation on a solid spot. / Well the storms may come and go / but the peace of God you will know."
I'm getting kind of desperate to know what the Pilgrim's Progress one I mentioned above was. I'd make an Ask post, but I just used up this week's.
All I can remember is a couple of snippets of song:
"Christian, walking along / Hopeful, singing a song / Faithful, happy to see / Christian and Hopeful make it to Celestial City."
And another song that had Christian singing the alphabet backwards: "ZYX WV UTSRQP OMN LKJ IHGFED CBA, now I know it, Zee to A."
The only reference I can find to it by googling is this mention. Does anyone remember this tape at all?
posted by lollusc at 1:57 AM on May 29, 2011
Goodness. Do you realize that now metafilter-christian-bashing makes much much more sense? This is a far better argument against "Christians" than anything on the recent Camping threads.
posted by mumimor at 3:53 AM on May 29, 2011
posted by mumimor at 3:53 AM on May 29, 2011
OH MY DEAR LORD I BELIEVE I HAVE JUST REDISCOVERED PSALTY THE SINGING SONGBOOK ON METAFILTER.COM
Holy hell, I have not seen or even thought about this strange little homily in years. What was up with that dog? So bizarre.
I'm not familiar with the video in the link, but did see "Singsational Servants" and its Ferengi-like mouse characters more times than I care to remember. It's not anywhere online, but you can read all about it and the others in Wikipedia's frighteningly exhaustive article on the series.
Anyway, thanks for the exceedingly weird wake-up call.
(PS: I've realized that Psalty sounds disconcertingly like Heath Ledger's Joker.)
posted by Rhaomi at 4:46 AM on May 29, 2011
Holy hell, I have not seen or even thought about this strange little homily in years. What was up with that dog? So bizarre.
I'm not familiar with the video in the link, but did see "Singsational Servants" and its Ferengi-like mouse characters more times than I care to remember. It's not anywhere online, but you can read all about it and the others in Wikipedia's frighteningly exhaustive article on the series.
Anyway, thanks for the exceedingly weird wake-up call.
(PS: I've realized that Psalty sounds disconcertingly like Heath Ledger's Joker.)
posted by Rhaomi at 4:46 AM on May 29, 2011
Also, reading this thread has reminded me, in turn, that I still own an Adventures in Odyssey Bible, the one with little color comic inserts secreted throughout the book. And remembering that reminded me of my even more long-forgotten Adventure Bible Handbook, a surprisingly tolerable illustrated Bible-esque thing where a bunch of schoolkids tumbled into a cartoon VR simulation where they were more or less forced to explore the wonders of the scriptures or die. I sadly lost that gem long ago, a problem I've now solved with a quick trip to eBay. Next week is going to be awesome.
posted by Rhaomi at 5:19 AM on May 29, 2011
posted by Rhaomi at 5:19 AM on May 29, 2011
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