Whats the weridst thing youv'e ever seen on the platform?

by highdose 39 Replies latest jw friends

  • SweetBabyCheezits
    SweetBabyCheezits

    I've got a jolly old hearsay: According to my parents, there was an elderly elder many decades ago (back when there was an short intermission between public talk and WT study) who announced, "We will now have a 15 minute intercourse before the WT study." Intermission + discourse = intercourse... what better way to get the blood flowin?

    Also, this wasn't on stage but we had a schitzo publisher who had a weird skin condition. She would always bring some crazy kitchen utensil to scratch her back. She like to sit near the front in the middle so us kids enjoyed a good chuckle when the spatula or spaghetti dipper came out. Never accepted an invite to dinner at her place, though.

  • elderelite
    elderelite

    lol curious, my wife is always getting on me for saying freaking..

    then I like to get into this whole "dam" thing.. like they did in one of the chevy chase vacation movies.. where they take a "dam" tour, and take "dam" pictures.. i can go on for days with that... at a "gathering" (party) one night I had a room full of people laughing hystarically over that and my poor wife looked like she wanted to shrivel up and die in a corner somewhere.

  • CuriousButterfly
    CuriousButterfly
    CuriousButterly, That was a funny story! If I am right, I think you had shared it on another thread that got deleted?

    I did give that story on here another time.....it was the announcements though. Did not realize the thread was deleted, hope it was not because of my story.

  • CuriousButterfly
    CuriousButterfly
    lol curious, my wife is always getting on me for saying freaking..then I like to get into this whole "dam" thing.. like they did in one of the chevy chase vacation movies.. where they take a "dam" tour, and take "dam" pictures.. i can go on for days with that... at a "gathering" (party) one night I had a room full of people laughing hystarically over that and my poor wife looked like she wanted to shrivel up and die in a corner somewhere.

    Thank God my husband is laid back, I am always coming out with something. With my close friends I can let loose with innuendos. lol

  • jookbeard
    jookbeard

    Dennis Ashby was a former CO and excellent public speaker who gave a talk as a visiting speaker at our hall, it was just after the time Church of England Envoy Terry Waite was kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah, Ashby started speaking about this during his talk (this was huge world wide news) and he said we should all pray for Terry Waite! needless to say he was never invited back to our cong in Wimbledon and pathetic former Bethel heavyweight PO Ted Sallows cried all the way to the top about it, Ashby remains a fine man in my memory.

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    :Re: Whats the weridst thing youv'e ever seen on the platform?

    Fred Franz.

    Farkel

  • Judge Dread
    Judge Dread

    Tragic, but not weird.

    We have three congregations that attend our hall.

    In one of those congregations, a sister had a heart attack during a talk and died right there.

    That's as detailed as I can get.

    JDW

  • watersprout
    watersprout
    waterspout, why would they keep giving him talks after the first incident? That is funny!

    After the first incident he didn't come again for a good few years...After the second time with all the s**t's he was counselled and he promised never to do it again...

    Peace and light

  • Juan Viejo2
    Juan Viejo2

    Happened around 1960...

    Our visiting Circuit Servant was giving the Sunday public talk during the summer months. He was wearing a light colored, summer-weight gray suit.

    My parents and I were sitting in the front row. I noticed something rather unusual, but kept it to myself as long as I could. I could see a dark spot was forming just under and to the left of the CO's zipper. I guess he realized something was wrong, because he stepped back a bit and buttoned his jacket. I bumped my mother and told her what I was seeing. "I know," she whispered, "but just be nice and ignore it."

    About 15 minutes later, the dark spot began to noticeably grow larger. Our podium was 1960's modern, with an open front over the flat small table area and the riser. The top was held up by three brass colored posts, with the microphone attached to the extended middle post. So everyone in the first two or three rows could clearly see this guy wetting his pants on stage.

    Somehow he managed to get control of his bladder and was able to work his way through the rest of the talk (then 55 minutes long). By the time he finished the spot had dried out and disappeared. Unfortunately, several younger Witness kids sitting near the front had noticed his problem and had been giggling in short, uncontrolled bursts. Too bad for them - for in those days, "spare not the rod" meant just that.

    Needless to say the word got around about what had happened. Everytime that poor Curcuit Servant would come to our Hall, we'd all talk about the time he pissed his pants during the public talk.

  • bigmac
    bigmac

    1: this one i heard about;

    birmingham, UK, late 1960's.

    during a public talk, a brother fell asleep, snoring gently, after a while the person next to him gave him a dig in the ribs

    he woke with a start, jumped up & said the closing prayer.

    2: this one i witnessed(!);

    same location/era

    we had a lovely brother, from the caribbean, who always ran way overtime in his talks

    in one ministry school session, the bell tinged to call time on him

    he carried on regardless--but 2 others had prepared for this

    up onto the platform they went, took an elbow each & marched him down the steps off the platform

    he still carried on with his talk!

    honest, i was there---his name was Walker--the talker.

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