LAUGHTER IN THE CONGREGATION (page 3)

Kudra

Thanks, these are all so funny...
There was this super pious guy (my age) in the congregation who was a mediocre reader but always trying to be serious, superspiritual and impress the elders.
At bookstudy, he was reading and there was a few pages on some subject that had "Sheol" and "Herod" peppered throughout the paragraphs.
But he would say "He-Rod" and She-Hole". (not on purpose! he just couldn't pronounce them!) Oh god, I could hardly contain myself. Everyone else was keeping a straight face but I kept peeking at my mom to make her laugh. That guy was such a tool.
-K

"He-Rod went down into She-Hole..."

anglise

Not really a happy people are they/we. Seem to remember that most causes of laughter where at the expense of children with their querky answers.

Hi Blues Brother I do remember David Carter and he was making jokes and calling the sisters "flower" and "petal" from the platform when I last saw him, and that was at the Assembly Hall and not just the local KH. He would even have impromptu Q/A had a CA. Dont know if he is still around?

Anglise

Warlock

I used to put humor in my talks, but after a while I got the feeling I better stop it.

One of the funny things that happened in our hall was during a raging thunder storm.

One of the elders got up to give a part on the service meeting, and when he open his mouth to speak, instead of words, there was this huge clap of thunder, as if it was coming out of his mouth. We were just dying with laughter because the timing was just perfect and it looked so funny.

Warlock

LovesDubs

Well it wasnt the congregation..it was in a book study. The Book Study Overseer was visiting our group which met in the basement of the hall, and the talk he was giving was about reaching out to those in need fearlessly...like Jesus did with the lepers, touching them, comforting them. But he wasnt saying lepers he was saying LEOPARDS...so he kept talking about talking to the leopards, holding the LEOPARDS, and the guy next to me who was a really good artist, drew a picture of Jesus reaching out and touching this leopard who has this What the F___ look on its face....and I just fell off my chair. I tried really hard to pretend I was having a coughing fit but Im sure they heard me all the way up the stairs to the ladies room...and the congregation that was having their meeting in the main hall probably thought I was having some kind of seizure....god it was funny.

That same elder liked to use props to make some kind of point and he spent the first 15 minutes of a public talk once with a fake fly on a string and a broom...just to say at the end, that it was a bad thing to "fly off the handle". You could have heard a pin drop...we were all like...WHAT?? It wasnt so far after that that the Society cracked down on elders to STICK TO THE OUTLINE and not ad lib. :)

lola28

Book study, the sisters whose house it was held in is an older sister and she had just come back from the beach, she looks at me and says "I have crabs", I burst out laughing and I mean laughing to the point where I could not breathe and my tummy hurt. Everyone is looking at me like WTF is wrong with her? My friend got it and she bagan to laugh, we tried so hard to stop laughing but no dice, half an hour after book study was over I was still on her couch laughing. Oh and she did have crabs (hermit ones) and I have a dirty sick mind.

Lola

Stealth453

Many years ago, there was a MS (old ex-army fellow) in the hall I attended, small town Ontario, that had a talk from the Youth book I believe. It was something to do with girls and puberty. He walked up on stage with a large piece of cardboard, drew a big red dot in the middle of it and held it up for 5 minutes. Never said a word. The entire hall was in stitches.

He was removed as a MS about a week later, and left the dubs within the year.

I miss that old guy!!

Stealth453

This has sparked a few strange memories.

That same hall. There was a young woman that insisted on breast feedeing her baby well into the girls early school years. During the Ministry School one night, the mother had a part. About half way through her part, her litle girl marched up onto the stage, and quick as a flash, pulled her mothers top down and dove in for a drink. The mother was of African heritage, and she hit a shade of red I have never seen since.

Needless to say...the meeting was all but done from that moment on.

nsrn

On book study night at our house, there were some noteworthy moments. We had an elderly, uneducated fellow from the hills of Carolina who by default was the reader. In the 'Babylon the Great Has Fallen' book, he read about the 'harlot, who was left devASSstated and Nekkid...' I caught my dad's eye, and he and I had a simultaneous coughing fit that required a drink of water from the kitchen. I love my dad's sense of humor.

Another time in the dead of winter, our big old ugly tom cat wandered into the living room during study. Now he did that occasionally, and I would invite him on my lap and have a blissful, purring destraction during the 'wheel within a wheel' description from that super dry Ezekiel book. But this time he paused at Sr. Ann's feet, let out a 15 second YOWL and then went to the door. Left and gone for 5 days. Came home battered and thin. We laughed and laughed the next study as everyone tried to interpret what the olf cat had said to Ann.

Then there was the study night when Bertha and Krystal K. showed up at our house with their mother for the first time. NEW RECRUITS! . I went to school with these kids, and I was horrified to see them in my house. Mom shushed me immediately and told me to buddy up and make them welcome, no ifs, ands, or buts. That managed to sit in every chair, go in my room and generally case and contaminate the whole place. After meeting was over, I finally was allowed to tell mom what the problem was. Those 2 were notorious in our elementary for having lice, and for not having clean underwear. Mom sniffed the couch cushions and went into overdrive cleaning.

Arthur

One time during the Watchtower study, the conductor's wife made a comment about the lack of modesty in the way young girls dress today.

Not thinking about how this would sound out loud, she said: "today, girls wear clothing that shows all of their nooks and crannies..." The whole audience roared. She became very embarrased and tried to elaborate when her husband cut her off and said "okay, we all get the picture".

VM44

Scene: Kingdom Hall meeting in progress

Time: Late 1960's

An announcement from the platform was made that the Society had purchased some new printing presses and that complete payment for them was to be made at some date after 1975.

The congregation as a whole laughed at that.

--VM44

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