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February 23, 2007
The Praise Be Woman
Poasted by gekko at 4:45 PM and filed under 
"Peeperie"
There probably is a term for this person already. You can see her in various charismatic or fundamentalist-style churches, nodding enthusiastically when the preacher talks about the good stuff, and shaking her head when he speaks of sin. She says "Amen" and "Hallelujah" and "Praise God!" to punctuate the sermon at appropriate places. She is filled with tension, in the front pew, leaning forward, avidly gulping in every everlasting word.
She may also be a he.
So today I observed this woman. She was a she, and we weren't in church. She wasn't punctuating gospel. We were in a "Town Hall" type of meeting, where company mucky-mucks get up and talk about what we're doing right with the business, what we're doing wrong, and where we're presumably going. And she was there, up in the front row, a tight string of a person, nodding when the boss-man said good things, and shaking her head when he talked about the bad. She muttered -- not hosannas nor amen, but she would repeat a few of his words, at the ends of his sentences.
She nodded and bobbed. I expected her to fall to the floor and babble in tongues, nearly, when they started talking about better ways we could handle our vendors -- she's a project manager for third party software and equipment, so this was her area of expertise.
The Praise Be Woman made the otherwise dull meeting somewhat more interesting, but she didn't prove entertaining enough, I guess, for Snoring Girl behind me.
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That's a good name that I'll have to start using - I've always called 'em Nodders.
In another "religious" vein, I've come across another fervent type at the many public meetings that have an opening invocation (remember I live in the south.) They're called Wejusters, for the style of prayer that has "we just" in it about 20 or more times.
Father we just praise you
We just lift up ____ to you Lord
We just come humbly before you
We just
We just
Some of them can lay down some real soup coolers.
The postings by the two before me(Mark and O'Tim)sound like 'sour grapes'--they can't have it, so it's no good. Let the nodders and Praise the Lorders enjoy their spiritual trips in peace. What's it to ya!!!?
Oh, they're not "sour grapes!" This is Sour Grapes!.
The ones who're religious, and sittin' in church doin' their thang are fine by me. The ones in meetings? I figure either they have tics or they're trying to suck up to the management.
Janet - I meant no offense to Christians, I was merely making a pun about a woman in a non-religious event and drawing a parallel as parody.
Make no mistake, I don't want "it" (I assume "it" is salvation through the Lord Jesus).
If it works for you, that's peachy, and I respect your choice.
Namaste
"they can't have it, so it's no good."
More like, "Been there, done that," Janet. They can go on as long and strange a trip as they'd like, but godammit my meatloaf's getting cold!
And what gekko said below your comment.
The word we would use here in NM is "lembe." It means "ass-kisser."
I thought lembe was the stuff the elves gave to Frodo & co. to eat on the way to Mordor...
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And she's probably playing with the boss's snake on the side like some demented Evangelical snake handler.