Today is Lammas Day – Scotland’s traditional first fruits of the harvest day.
Here’s a Lammas Sermon from a couple of years ago.
9 responses to “Jane Russell RIP”
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She had politics?
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I believe she described herself as “a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot.”
Any more questions, John?
(Apart from where one might find flesh coloured swimming trunks?)
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Well, at least she was honest – and by now she knows she was wrong!
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Not just the flesh colour but the little dark band on them which is – quite distracting.
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I wondered whether the little dark band was sewn on in order to show, for the avoidance of doubt, that they were in fact wearing something.
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I think we have to admit the little band does rather more than draw attention to their being to some degree dressed.
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I think its a curious visual paradox. It makes them appear dressed on the one hand and quite undressed on the other.
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Oh I see!This wasn’t really about Jane Rusell at all…
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Pay attention, Mother. Pay attention.
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