If only you just wouldn't CLAP so hard.... (page 2)

minimus

And what's with clapping after a prayer??? That's the dumbest thing yet.

PopeOfEruke

Minimus, its still better than praying after a crap, I mean, clap..........

Pope

larc

I liked it when a speaker got the clap. Is that a disfellowshipping issue?

The worst was during the "acknowledgements" portion of the closing talk at district conventions. They'd mention everyone and anything that had anything to do with putting on the program - the facility management, the city council, the local police, etc. etc. etc, and you'd have to clap for each one. "And aren't we grateful for the fake pine tree on my left?" Yadda yadda yadda...

Matty

And what's with clapping after a prayer??? That's the dumbest thing yet

Minimus, I think this idea started in Russia. We never clapped after the end of sessions before the brothers and sisters who went to the various conventions in Russia noticed the Russian brothers doing this.

I guess they considered that this practice showed some extra appreciation that was lacking in the west, so like the good sheep we all are, we copied it and now everyone claps after the prayer while still standing.

I get confused at baptisms. Sometimes they allow the audience to clap after each dunk, and sometimes the chairman asks the audience to reserve the applause until after the last one is dunked.

When you get the clapping after each individual baptism, you get to know the status of the candidate and how popular they are. You can hear how far up the social order they are rather like the clapometer in the old tv talent shows.

NM, I also like to applaud the fir trees and the geraniums. I applauded the doughnuts and the hellas chocolate bars as well as the football club management.

Edited by - matty on 21 October 2002 10:57:11

blondie

I don't bother clapping at those moments. I clap at the end of the day and that is it (glad it's over). They should give the attendants a list of when to clap to cue the rest of the audience.

I don't stand up during the announcements either. What a farce having to be given permission to stand and then being told when you can sit down.

SYN

What a brill thread!

I'm an enthusiastic guy. You'd always see me clapping at the least provocation. Hell, I'd even sometimes began clapping loudly when an especially hot Sister walked past in the aisle next to me! LOL!

Thanks for the laughs guys, you brought back some hilarious memories! "Clap-O-Meter" indeed!

Angharad

I used to enjoy watching people who had fallen asleep during the assembly - when the clapping started they would really jump and start clapping enthusiastically (sp) . They werent fooling anyone

Gopher

The English word "Claptrap" seems to describe those efforts to draw applause out of an audience:

noun: Pretentious, insincere or empty language. I hate that air/Of claptrap, which your recent poets prize (Byron).

ETYMOLOGY:Obsolete claptrap, a theatrical trick to win applause: clap + trap

Edited by - Gopher on 21 October 2002 11:56:30

ballistic

As you know, the witnesses invite the press to assemblies as a form of advertising. Well our local rag had a small report on the district convention with a close up of an elder from our congregation fast asleep - obvously taken with a zoom across the stadium. This went down with much embarassment. Unfortunately, their web site doesn't have back issues, but it was a classic.

If only you just wouldn't CLAP so hard....