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12/05/2011 By 15 Comments

The following search terms have recently led people to land at this blog.

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  • Better well hung than ill wed
  • The Bearded Nun
  • Gay ministers in the Church of Scotland
  • Mothers’ Union Homophobia
  • O my people, what have I done to you
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  1. Rosemary Hannah says
    12/05/2011 at 10:00

    Well, who but can agree with the first of these?! Tyburn and all that ….

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  2. ryan says
    12/05/2011 at 14:15

    Are the first and third items related? Never knew presbyterianism was so exciting! 😉

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  3. kelvin says
    12/05/2011 at 17:19

    Here is another good one just added today – “Female Hobgoblins”.

    We have female hobgoblins in the Scottish Episcopal Church, don’t we?

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  4. ryan says
    12/05/2011 at 17:31

    Ooh, are they called hobgoblets, or would that just be confusing? 😉

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    • kelvin says
      12/05/2011 at 18:32

      That’s a nice idea, Ryan, but I think hobgoblets is always going to be seen as a diminutive and that’s not really very PC these days.

      I believe that the term you may be looking for is hobgoblix.

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  5. ryan says
    13/05/2011 at 11:22

    Surely that works better as a plural? i.e. “the hobgoblet sashayed up the aisle” and “the procession of hobgoblix was most impressive and a fine time was had by all” etc

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  6. kelvin says
    13/05/2011 at 12:27

    No Ryan, Hobgoblices, I think is the plural.

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  7. Rosemary Hannah says
    13/05/2011 at 22:35

    Yes, I think it must be hobgoblices. I suspect the delicious form of hobgoblix is only nominative, and vocative. Hobgoblices in surplices.

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  8. PamB says
    14/05/2011 at 07:29

    Are you referring to the front row of the Choir?

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  9. Kelvin Holdsworth says
    14/05/2011 at 08:03

    I think we will presume that no particular individual members of the faithful are being referred to in this conversation.

    I think it is worth noting that we have discussed matters pertaining to hobgoblins before. When I started this blog, I had no intention to become the leading Anglican site for hobgoblinalia, but so be it. Needs must. That is the way of vocation.

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  10. agatha says
    14/05/2011 at 16:52

    Foul fiends not getting a mention? This is discrimination!

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    • kelvin says
      14/05/2011 at 17:28

      Before anyone asks, I think we’ll conclude that no individual members of the faithful are being referred to when we speak of foul fiends too.

      Especially the back row of the choir.

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  11. Rosemary Hannah says
    14/05/2011 at 22:20

    I just got seduced by the wonderful sound, Pam. All that sibilance. I like being a dragon, and I would not at all mind being a hobgoblix, but I draw the line at being a foul fiend.

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  12. PamB says
    15/05/2011 at 07:29

    I would agree that choristers = individuals, however choristers = faithful is a more fuzzy equation. Last week, due to an overprovision of hobgoblices, I found myself in the back row. Oooh I did enjoy being a foul fiend.

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  13. PamB says
    15/05/2011 at 07:32

    @Rosemary – in singing latin one would say hobgoblee-chays. Therefore, surplee-chays. I like this, and will adopt it forthwith.

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