tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post5718160263739470940..comments2024-03-28T20:30:10.681-04:00Comments on southern orders: FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AND MY RECTORY AND PARISH COOK!Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-87790326348232521942015-10-17T09:54:45.942-04:002015-10-17T09:54:45.942-04:00The movie is much more ambiguous than the book. In...The movie is much more ambiguous than the book. In the book, the relationship between the two women was subtle (no overt sex) but obvious. There is one particularly telling scene just after Idgie had brought the pregnant Ruth home to her parents. Idgie's father gives her the cafe, telling her, "Now you have a family to support."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-46643647782228718082015-10-16T20:26:23.958-04:002015-10-16T20:26:23.958-04:00Jan, the book and the film both depicted - clearly...Jan, the book and the film both depicted - clearly - lesbianism and cannibalism. There is nothing "polluted" in seeing what is on the screen in front of you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-1360810442668517192015-10-15T19:59:18.111-04:002015-10-15T19:59:18.111-04:00Gob probably had a black slave or indentured serva...Gob probably had a black slave or indentured servant. Most libs are also hypocrites.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-25532138203486034632015-10-15T18:27:17.051-04:002015-10-15T18:27:17.051-04:00Father, why do you continue to engage the negativi...Father, why do you continue to engage the negativity spewing from gob? You would have fun at St. Mark, in Eastman.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-69991022782219823962015-10-15T18:25:49.005-04:002015-10-15T18:25:49.005-04:00My wife was a stay at home Mom until the 7th child...My wife was a stay at home Mom until the 7th child was born. By then we badly needed more income so she went back to work. We were fortunate to have both our Moms to help with the baby. My wife went to work at 6:30 AM. I got the children up, fed them breakfast and got them off to school (the parish school) which was one block away. They had lunch at school. I had to be at work at 9:00. My wife and I together did dinner. The children took turns with dishes. Not really very complicated. Please excuse me if this seems like more pious babbling. It's just the way we did it.... gobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49438107782975308192015-10-15T17:31:25.408-04:002015-10-15T17:31:25.408-04:00Well who the heck cooked for you and your 7 childr...Well who the heck cooked for you and your 7 children, a spirit or your wife?Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-24793582954662259332015-10-15T16:59:23.234-04:002015-10-15T16:59:23.234-04:00I said that we had 7 children and no cook..You cal...I said that we had 7 children and no cook..You call that "pious babbling concerning his large family". OK....gobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-2697098718956352912015-10-15T15:06:19.521-04:002015-10-15T15:06:19.521-04:00Anonymous at 8.21, 11.11 am I guess if you have a ...Anonymous at 8.21, 11.11 am I guess if you have a polluted mind you will read the worst into anything ...<br /><br />JanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-63790571988608147552015-10-15T12:46:15.805-04:002015-10-15T12:46:15.805-04:00If Father McDonald and Father Vernon lived closer ...If Father McDonald and Father Vernon lived closer to me, I would personally cook for them every day and gladly wait on them and clean up afterwards. It's the least I could do for two priests that have done so much for me, as a Catholic growing in the faith. People take for granted how much their priest does hour after hour, day after day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-5926844296136413572015-10-15T11:34:06.238-04:002015-10-15T11:34:06.238-04:00Anonymous @ 11:11, You mean Atlanta burned in that...Anonymous @ 11:11, You mean Atlanta burned in that movie!!!??? I thought that was DC burning...dang, wishful thinking again.<br />But, I really liked the part where Robert E. Lee accepted Grant's surrender at Cold Harbor, became President of the Confederacy, and made Rhett and Scarlett ambassadors to the newly founded Yankee States of America. All the slaves were freed, allowed to form their own nation in Liberia, and the Confederacy invaded France and used captured Frenchmen as slaves. I love happy endings!Clyde Catholicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-89118795478547882912015-10-15T11:14:59.551-04:002015-10-15T11:14:59.551-04:00Misprint alert "God" certainly cares abo...Misprint alert "God" certainly cares about me and my priests and if we eat properly and as a group, but evidently GOB doesn't is the point I should have made. Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-36210461964430458462015-10-15T11:13:45.829-04:002015-10-15T11:13:45.829-04:00Our cook comes in three days a week to prepare sup...Our cook comes in three days a week to prepare supper and set the table. She places the cooked food in the stove and leaves before 4 PM. We take the food out of the stove, pray, eat and clean up. It is all very humane.<br /><br />Otherwise, we would go out to eat. If I am alone, I take the path of least resistance and go to a fast food outlet, Chic Fil A being my favorite. <br /><br />This all adds to lbs and cardiac arrest--but evidently GOD doesn't care about that as long as he can poke us poor priests in the eye with his pious babble concerning his large family. <br /><br />But now that I think about it, most southerners (and I am not) did have maids who cooked breakfast, lunch and supper as well as cleaned the house and took care of the children and this happened in middle and lower middle class families not just the rich in the south. <br /><br />GOB if you are southern and as old as you say you are and that is old, did you have maids????Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-49221467857050964542015-10-15T11:11:33.555-04:002015-10-15T11:11:33.555-04:00Maybe you should watch Gone With The Wind again an...Maybe you should watch Gone With The Wind again and discover that Atlanta really does burn down...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-66903574034446405932015-10-15T10:13:23.058-04:002015-10-15T10:13:23.058-04:00I agree that the rectory should have a house keepe...I agree that the rectory should have a house keeper and cook. The priests should also have chores. A good example to the families in the parish. As far as cost goes it isn't that bad. My niece ran a business after school where she came home, cooked and delivered meals for about five families. She had to account for and pay for groceries, fuel, etc. she made good money for college and the families got to eat together rather than at drive through. rcghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00661998350597126663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-175536191992284822015-10-15T09:00:55.996-04:002015-10-15T09:00:55.996-04:00Fried Soylent Green Tomatoes?Fried Soylent Green Tomatoes?Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510317669833026685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-84715925638906564302015-10-15T08:49:42.238-04:002015-10-15T08:49:42.238-04:00Now, see, in I Love Lucy, I thought it was Fred an...Now, see, in I Love Lucy, I thought it was Fred and Ricky that had the hots for each other...LOL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-74894606141615592792015-10-15T08:48:08.279-04:002015-10-15T08:48:08.279-04:00If you read the book, you would understand the sto...If you read the book, you would understand the story behind the movie. They toned it down, of course, for the movie, but the cannibalism is clearly there.Clyde Catholicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-56725023888796424142015-10-15T08:32:59.154-04:002015-10-15T08:32:59.154-04:00Jan, people have said this about Lucy and Ethel. I...Jan, people have said this about Lucy and Ethel. It is ridiculous. Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-67755473255227284052015-10-15T08:31:41.086-04:002015-10-15T08:31:41.086-04:00When I am alone, I don't have a cook. But in m...When I am alone, I don't have a cook. But in my rectory we have had up to three priests and one seminarian living here. It is ridiculous to think we can cook for each other or simply do our own thing. Having a cook, a set time to eat and to eat in a formal way is just as important for priests as it is for families.<br /><br />But I know that this generation of Catholics so often eat on the run, eat out or do their own thing the antithesis of what Catholics should be doing which is eating daily at their common table and making it special-table cloth, table set properly and manners at the table.<br /><br />Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-789697366358431062015-10-15T08:21:59.209-04:002015-10-15T08:21:59.209-04:00Next we'll hear that you saw "Titanic&quo...Next we'll hear that you saw "Titanic" but didn't know the boat sank...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-53408963148006644082015-10-15T08:21:02.085-04:002015-10-15T08:21:02.085-04:00I also agree that priests should have a cook becau...I also agree that priests should have a cook because they are on call for 24 hours a day and to expect them to cook their own meals as well is not on. In the normal way of things a woman normally cooks the meals in the home for her husband because he has been out working during the day. Does Gob have to work all day and then come home and prepare his own meals? When Gob does come home his work will be finished for the day and he can put his feet up and watch TV or whatever pasttime he likes to pursue and then toddle off to bed. It is unlikely that his sleep will be disturbed. He normally won't have to go to the hospital in the middle of the night, he is unlikely to be having homeless people knocking at his door at night, drunks, etc, etc, as can happen at a presbytery where people are often referred if they need assistance. To provide meals and housekeepers for priests is how it was and how it should be now. Other denominations have to support ministers and their wives and families, so Catholics have little to complain about. <br /><br />JanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-79554770427018694822015-10-15T08:06:16.560-04:002015-10-15T08:06:16.560-04:00RCG, I have seen the movie twice and, to be honest...RCG, I have seen the movie twice and, to be honest, I never knew it was about lesbians and cannabalism. I obviously missed something in the movie. I read a write up today about the movie and it says that the movie was criticised because it didn't portray a lesbian relationship as does the book. However, the author of the book initially denied it was about a lesbian relationship but later said it was. So to me it looks like a friendship between two women has been turned into a lesbian relationship - after all one of the characters does marry - no wonder I missed it. In reality I don't think the movie depicts a lesbian relationship but lesbians have obviously used it to promote their lifestyle.<br /><br />JanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-52825398070227858622015-10-15T06:22:22.402-04:002015-10-15T06:22:22.402-04:00In other perverted news (this is no joke): in Lond...In other perverted news (this is no joke): in London, a Meerkat expert attacked a monkey handler with a wine glass over a love triangle with a llama expert. I swear, Monty Python could not have even come up with that one!Clyde Catholicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-68758816858130707602015-10-15T04:54:52.050-04:002015-10-15T04:54:52.050-04:00When the bathroom was gutted there was a large rat...When the bathroom was gutted there was a large rat's nest under where the tub was and it was old which tells us rats have lived in the walls and joists of the building for years. We found other rats nests when walls were opened. And yes, the construction disturbed these rats and they took revenge! I still have PDS from it all. Fr. Allan J. McDonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16986575955114152639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846189835239594160.post-72665322249774202452015-10-14T22:49:43.411-04:002015-10-14T22:49:43.411-04:00gob, you read what I wrote correctly -- priests sh...gob, you read what I wrote correctly -- priests should hire cooks, if they can afford it, because they aren't married. And my wife cooks for me. <br /><br />That's clever how you misspelled my name. Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13510317669833026685noreply@blogger.com