So you think you can communicate?

All the clergy I encounter tell me how very good they are at communicating and yet so often I find the curse of the global edit strikes in service sheets I am handed. Here are a couple of thought provoking examples from recent services I have attended:

Psalm 23
'Even though I walk through the IRISley of the shadow of death, I will feel no fear!'

The Nicene Creed
'For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven, was incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Christine and was made man.'

I love the results of a non proofread service and there's nothing better than finding this in the Eucharist:

'Christ has died, Chris has risen, Christ will come again,' is there?

Unless the choir are singing Angus Die that is :-)

Happy Tuesday

Blue Sky Thought - Prophecies

This is one of my favourite Murray Walker quotes - thought it might make you think (and hopefully smile too):

Robert Watson-Watt: Father of RADAR

Whilst on the theme of poetry, one of my favourites 'Rough Justice' comes from the pen of Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (RAWW) the pioner (and in my view, the father) of RAdio Detection And Ranging (RADAR).

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS
13th April 1892 – 5th December 1973

The poem relates to RAWW being pulled over for speeding thanks to the police officer's radar gun. Legend has it that as the officer wrote out the ticket, Watson-Watt remarked, 'Had I known what you were going to do with it (RADAR) I would never have invented it!'

Rough Justice
Pity Sir Robert Watson-Watt, 
strange target of this radar plot,
And thus, with others I can mention, 
the victim of his own invention.
His magical all-seeing eye 
enabled cloud-bound planes to fly,
but now by some ironic twist, 
it spots the speeding motorist
and bites,
no doubt with legal wit, 
the hand that once created it !

Sitting alongside William Shockley and so many others, Watson Watt possesses probably the cheekiest face of all my scientific and technologist heroes.