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I couldn't resist posting this - it is absolutely hilarious. If you are a fan of the movie Office Space, or you even work in an office environment, you will probably appreciate this. I will warn you though, there is one obsenity in this short film, but it was not well pronounced and you will probably miss it if you aren't listening closely. There is a actually a whole collection of Terry Tate videos on You Tube and again, if you don't mind a few obsenities, and you enjoy this short clip, then you should probably check them out. And so without further adieu, Enjoy!

For the Friday Funnies this week I want to highlight the "Ask A Ninja" guys (or should I say guy, since there seems to be only one). Ninjas are apparently hot these days. Doing a Google search you will find over 70 million hits, with sites ranging from "The Official Ninja Webpage" to "Ninjai: The Adventures of the Little Ninja." But if you haven't seen "Ask A Ninja" yet, you have to check it out. Their tag line is, "You Got Questions, Ninja Got Answers." Here is one of their latest videos: a movie review of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," which if you haven't seen it, is pretty funny in its own right. So without further adieu, here's Ask A Ninja: Special Delivery 7 "Pirates of the Caribbean". ENJOY!



Additionally, I wanted to link another video that I found quite humorous, but I can't post it because it includes adult themes and a few explitives. So, if you are under 17 or offended by such, don't click on the link. But if you are a Star Wars fan like myself and you can handle some PG-13 Rated profanity, then check it out. It's called, "Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager (Episode 1)" and the short summary given on YouTube is, "Life is hard when you're Darth Vader's less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother and you manage a grocery store." Once again, ENJOY!

Sorry that Friday Funnies is running a bit late today, but I hope that you will find it worth the wait. Anyway, this week's Friday Funnies is all about Rap - the good, the bad, and the ugly, the latter two characterized by what you will find below in the two humorous videos. Let's start with the good though. This week's post was inspired by an interesting article I read about two weeks ago at Between Two Worlds about a Christian rapper named Voice. Justin Taylor followed up a week later with an interview with Voice regarding his newest album and his life as a rapper. Here is one exchange I found quite enlightening:

For this next question I’m thinking about increasingly smaller circles. In the first circle you have all the musicians in the world. Within that circle is a much smaller one that holds all the rappers in the world. Within that is a smaller one yet of guys trying to live a fairly clean, moral lifestyle. Within that you have Christian rappers. And finally, you have perhaps the smallest segment of all—Reformed Christian rappers. But you’re not the only one, are you? Who are some of the other Reformed brothers out there doing hip hop and rap?

Right now the guys I listen to are Christcentric (Christcentric.net) Shai Linne and Timothy Brindle (Lampmode.com). These guys, groups influence me the most and the ones I like to listen to. There are more but I don’t listen to them as much.

Voice was an attendee at the recent Together For the Gospel conference in Louisville and Taylor asks him for his opinion of the rap parody that Lig and John Duncan performed. You can go over and check out his critical analysis of their music career possibilities.

Here are two "Christian rap videos" (if you can call them that) I found on the internet. Both are meant to be humorous, and are in no way representative of the style of the guys mentioned above (you can check out the links and find videos of each if you are interested). The first of the two videos I found over at The No Kool Aid Zone, which is authored by an Evan-Free blogger, and the other is fairly old, so most of you probably have seen it before. So sit back and enjoy a good laugh courtesy of the latest installment of "Friday Funnies."

I saw this picture at the Citizen Bezner blog and I knew it had to be my next Friday Funnies.

But, I also wanted to include a picture I took this weekend on my trip to Memphis.

I hope to provide some more commentary on this church and their new statue. For now, here are a couple of articles about it:

Church Unveiling Its Own Version of the Statue of Liberty

Statue Of Liberation Unveiled At Memphis Church

I will say that some have interpreted it as a Church-State statement, but I think something more insidious is going on here. But more on that later. Thanks to Jay at TheMemphisMonkey.com for bringing it to my attention.