What if Dilbert was a pastor?
Honestly, he handles meetings that won’t end more elegantly than I do.
What if Dilbert was a pastor?
Honestly, he handles meetings that won’t end more elegantly than I do.
Yet Not I, But Through Christ In Me is a track from Selah’s latest album Firm Foundation.
This song has strong lyrics and all three vocalists have space to demonstrate their individual strengths and wonderful combinations.
One of the faces that launched thousands of internet memes features an image sourced from stock photos of a mature aged gent with a fixed smile and eyes that seem to portray mixed emotions about the situation he’s found himself in.
He was dubbed ‘Hide the pain Harold.’
Oddly enough he features in large numbers of memes aimed at pastors.
I have no idea why.
None whatsoever.
This article from Guardian online relates how András Arató, of Budapest, came to be the subject of the photo, and how he has sought to claim the identity that had achieved online notoriety, even making something of a later-life career out of the situation.
Turns out he really is smiling on both the outside and the inside.
Well worth a read:
I’m 74 now. I spent 40 years as an engineer. I did a bit of public speaking then, at conferences and lectures, but that was very different from appearing on television talkshows and YouTube videos. As an engineer, it was really me. Now, it’s role play: I’m Hide the Pain Harold. But I’m not actually a sad guy – I think I’m rather a happy one.
Read the whole article at Guardian online.
Sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees.
But what about the wood or the jungle?
This article on Mental Floss is about the differences between the three terms.
Cutting to the chase:
To summarize, forests are historically and colloquially considered to be larger than woods, and scientifically considered to be more dense. Jungles are technically forests, too, since jungle is a casual word for what scientists call a tropical forest.
Read all the background explanation at Mental Floss.
