[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[Lesley de Voil]

To get back to the original thread subject:

I've just been doing some reading of a history of my own diocese. The
best bits are always found when you are not looking for them!
In 1963, the new Archbishop of Brisbane Diocese (remember this is
Queensland, Australia, for those who came in late) came to the Toronto
Anglican Congress. He was billeted with some others of the ~1000
attending clergy at St. Luke's Clergy House, Evanston. (Hi Scott!!)
'While he went to bed mid-evening on a Saturday, he was aware that
talk and laughter among the other clergy went on until the early hours
of the morning, and was astonished at the amount of alcohol being
drunk. 'I can't stand it', he is reported as having said. 'It seems
amazing that they should in a clergy house sit up drinking, talking
and laughing till the early hours of Sunday morning, and the Rector at
that!!'"
It would appear that some things haven't changed much!

Regards
Lesley de Voil

On 3/19/15, sally.davies at gmail.com <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the term used in Scotland for the English is "Sassenachs". '
>
> It probably gets worse by adding adjectives...
>
> Sally D
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 at 06:51 James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Scots are technically British, but would rather not be called Brits, I
>> suspect.
>>
>> I recall reading about a time during a great unpleasantness, when a lot
>> of
>> people from the US were stationed in The British Isles, and they were all
>> called Yanks.  Always wondered how staid Virginians coped with that.
>>
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**"  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Marion Thompson <
>> marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Here I think we have, on the one hand, 'Brits' being used to mean
>> > loosely
>> > the English,'them over there', but on the other more-accurate hand,
>> > British includes the Scots who are most definitely not English.
>> >
>> > Marion, a pilgrim
>> >
>> >
>> > On 3/18/2015 7:37 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>> >
>> >> But not English. And quite a number of my Scottish friends refer to
>> >> the
>> >> English as "Brits"....when they aren't calling them something worse
>> >> <g>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Roger Stokes
>> >> <r.s.stokes.65 at cantab.net
>> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  ------ Original Message ------
>> >>> From: "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
>> >>> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> >>> Sent: 18/03/2015 14:08:24
>> >>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] More Clergy DWI
>> >>>
>> >>>   We had a piper at our church in Tennessee on the occasion of the
>> 300th
>> >>>
>> >>>> anniversary of the consecration of Samuel Seabury by the Scottish
>> >>>> bishops,
>> >>>> which I have always privately thought the Scots looked on as another
>> >>>> opportunity to stick it to the Brits.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>  The Scots are British.
>> >>>
>> >>> Roger
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >
>>
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