The Maeroflange Conspiracy.

Yes, great job although not as good as a rossiter

A spit roast solves all, Vel. There's no finer way of preparing a chicken, or dealing with an apostate.

Thank you, men - but I fear I don't have room for a spitroast...not indoors, anyway.

P.S. That's quite harsh on an apostate - can't you give him/her time to come back into the fold??

Mmmm. Just a thought.

If only your God was as patient!

Deuteronomy 13: 6-9

13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;

13:7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Yikes.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-tek-HT459-Combination-Rotisserie-Oven/dp/B0017R...

Perhaps Velasquez should form the Chit Chat Peoples Front ?

a kind of Christian Terrorist movement against non-believers.

and chickens

Why is this all "thou" and "thine", etc? Like, really archaic an' sh1t, yeah?

Orioles, is this all part of The Maeroflange Conspiracy??

I mean...like...I try to cook a nice chicken on a Sunday and...and you know...?

Are you people RELIGIOUS MANIACS?

Or just maniacs...?

We are cheesemakers.

Pure gallus, Vel, as they say in your home town.

Pure gallus gallus domesticus, in fact :)

Oh now, Vel, come on :^0

Ok, I better not chicken out.

The clue is with "Egypt", representing the world. Now, as some of you boys at the back should know, the Old Testament is the shadow and "type", and the New Testament is the reality of God. I muss - really muss - recommend a visit to the National Gallery so that you boys at the back can stare at a Caravaggio painting for several blocks of 5-minutes. See how that painter uses dark shadows...and light?

OLD TESTAMENT : The "Law" condemns and kills as no man can live up to it.

NEW TESTAMENT : Unearned grace brings eternal life and love, in place of judgement.

So you get these parallel passages. For example:

Exodus 32:27 - "...The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about 3,000 of the people died."

Acts 2:41 - "Those who accepted his message were baptised, and about 3,000 were added to their number that day."

I would also like to say, for the record, that I used to work for Muriel Gray's TV company called GALLUS BESOM !

Meanwhile, here is a nice painting of THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE :

http://www.aradergalleries.com/detail.php?id=2519

P.S. How much is the Salvation Army paying you to set these threads up ??

I was pointing out my dazzling combination of Latin and the vernacular!

Did you see THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE? It's gorgeous, isn't it?

Well, I had the chance to do Latin but I opted to do Food & Nutrition instead.

What's Latin for "Ginger and Pear Upside Down Cake"?

Romani eunt domum?

Cor - it's a very concise language, isn't it, Ken Masters? You could just about fit that on a school badge.

I just did the online thingy and got this :

gingiber quod pirum upside down laganum gallus wi irn bruum

Only those versed in the language of the law will be able to discern how accurate that is...