Week Nine of Extra Ordinary Time
Welcome to the Ninth week of Extra Ordinary Time. Year Six
Please
open your Hymnal to page 3 and join in our processional “O Lord
Please Don’t Burn Us” Verse 1
O LORD, please don’t burn us, Don’t grill or
toast your flock,
Don’t put us on the barbecue, Or simmer us in stock,
Don’t braise or bake or boil us, Or stir fry us in a
wok.
As my back continues to heal and the heat subsides locally, I appreciate the “cool jazz” approach to this week’s processional, even though I still dislike jazz.
Please open The Holy Text volume 1 to episode 19 page 252
where the prophets say …
|
Interviewer |
Mr L. F. Dibley's 'Finian's Rainbow'. And now over to
me. (close-up of interviewer) Exclusively on the programme
today we have the Foreign Secretary, who has just returned from the bitter
fighting in the Gulf of Amman. He's going to tell us about canoeing. |
|
On the bank of a river seen from the other side. There
is a canoe on the bank a man in a pinstripe suit stands beside it. SUPERIMPOSEN CAPTION: 'THE FOREIGN SECRETARY' He gives a little cough and gets in. Two Arabs run in
from other side of frame, lift up the canoe and throw it and the Foreign
Secretary into the water. Cut back to the interviewer. |
|
|
Interviewer |
That gives you just some idea of what's going on out
there. Today saw the long-awaited publication of the Portman Committee's
Report on Industrial Reorganization... |
Open your hymnal to page 4 and join us in singing “Holzfaller Song” Verse 1
Ich wollte... ein Holzfäller sein! Ja, ein Holzfäller!
Der von Baum zu Baum hüpft, die auf den mächtigen Wassern von Südtirol
hinabschwimmen.
Die gigantische Rotbuche! Die Lärche! Die Tanne!
Die kräftige Kiefer! Der Duft von frisch gefälltem Holz!
Das Geräusch der stürzenden mächtigen Bäume! An
meiner Seite, mein liebes Mädel... Und wir würden singen, singen, singen...
Now please
open The Holy Text volume 2 to episode 38 page 223 where the prophets say …
|
Presenter |
And
welcome to 'Spot the Loony', where once again we invite you to come with us
all over the world to meet all kinds of people in all kinds of places, and
ask you to . .. Spot the Loony! (crescendo of music) |
|
SUPERIMPOSED
CAPTION: 'ALL ANSWERS VERIFIED BY ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA' |
|
|
Presenter |
Our panel
this evening... Gurt Svensson, the Swedish mammal abuser and part-time
radiator. |
|
Cut to
Svensson. He is standing on his head on the desk with his legs crossed in a
yoga position. He wears a loincloth and high-heeled shoes. He talks through a
megaphone which is strapped to his head. |
|
|
Svensson |
Good
evening. |
|
Cut
back to the presenter. |
|
|
Presenter |
Dame Elsie
Occluded, historian, wit, bon viveur, and rear half of the Johnson
brothers... |
|
Cut to
another section of the panel's desk. Dame Elsie. Her bottom half is encased
in the side of a block of concrete which is also on top of the desk. Dame
Elsie is thus parallel to the ground. She has fairy wings on her back, a
striped t-shirt, flying gloves, goggles and a green wig. |
|
|
Dame Elsie |
Good
evening. |
|
Cut
back to the presenter. |
|
|
Presenter |
And Miles
Yellowbird, up high in banana tree, the golfer and inventor of Catholicism. |
|
Cut to
final section of the desk. A man dressed as a rabbit, with a megaphone
strapped to one eye. |
|
|
Miles |
Good
evening. |
|
Presenter |
And we'll
be inviting them to... Spot the Loony. (a phone rings on the desk; he
picks it up) Yes? Quite right ... A viewer from Preston there who's
pointed out correctly that the entire panel are loonies. Five points to
Preston there, and on to our first piece of film. It's about mountaineering
and remember you have to... Spot the Loony! |
Homily: Parishioners,
we are unfortunately seeing what conflict will look like in the very near
future as the new tools of war develop at a startling pace. First up this week we see the steady creep of
AI into all facets of daily life. It
seems a new phenomenon has developed where people are adding AI generated images
of “women” to their Facebook Marketplace ads (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/facebook-marketplace-enters-ai-thirst-trap-era). Unfortunately,
it seems that these “thirst trap” ads are generating higher sales, so expect
ever more in the future.
Next, now that
Americans are starting to see the earning potential of military drones and the
military is realizing that the big companies they usually work with are to
dinosaur like to move with alacrity or agility in the rapidly developing world
of drones we are starting to see REAL design breakthroughs (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/flying-beer-cooler-pentagons-next-kamikaze-drone-ushers-era-cheap-mass-produced-airpower)
The owner of the company says that a Pentagon official told him his
drone looks like a “flying beer cooler” but it will revolutionize drone warfare
and solves all the major problems encountered on the battle field in
Ukraine. Just what Dr Strangelove
ordered!
In a rather benign
video here we see a robot firing a mortar and a 9MM pistol (https://www.zerohedge.com/military/watch-humanoid-warbot-live-fires-mortars-vegas-test-range).
This simply demonstrates how robots are improving rapidly and the
predictions of them taking over battle fields by next decade appear on pace. However, another video from this week shows a
robot walking in a parade and demonstrating it martial arts moves (https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/viral-humanoid-robot-kicks-chinese-kid-stomach-during-public-demonstration).
Then a young boy steps out into the parade and gets “Kung Fu’d by the
robot for getting in its way. Once again
Parishioners, remember these coming Robots will be the soldiers who always
follow their orders, they will never question the orders, or who is giving the
orders – Caveat Emptor in deed!
Amen
Oh Please don’t lightly
poach us, Or Baste us with hot fat,
Don’t fricassee or roast us, Or boil us in
a vat,
And please don’t stick thy servants, Lord, In a
Rotissomat.
Comments
Post a Comment