There were always all types of speakers in the org. Myself, growing up a "witness", must have heard all types of talks, and given by all manner of speakers, especially on Sundays, when almost every week we would get a "visiting" brother giving the public talk.
Sometimes, you would have a "great" speaker, all fluent and animated. Other times we would get a comical speaker, one who would maybe purposelly get a few laughs outta the audience. Many times, there would be the boring, monotonous speaker, dull and mind numbing. Then, of course, you would get the judgemental assholes, with their "fire and brimstone", pointing the finger, accusing everybody. Finally, you would ,sometimes, get a KNUCKLEHEAD. Like some idiot who had no clue what he was saying, and thought he was the greatest speaker, but fumbled his words like a drunken sailor.
Anyway, the experience i am sharing, is about a "knucklehead" speaker that came to visit one Sunday, and i will never forget the stupid thing he said on the stage.
First, i will give ya a quick background of the congregation i grew up in. I was born and raised in one of the boroughs of NYC. As most people know, NYC is a very "diverse" area, of all nationalities, and races. Although this is the case, my congregation was essentially a mostly "white" congregation. This was pretty rare for the area i am from, and in my congregation there was almost an "air" of exclusivity, eliteism, a little racism, and most members were kinda wealthy, which in turn, made some "snooty" and "uppity".
Well one Sunday, we had a visiting black brother from another congregation, giving the public talk. He seemed like a nice dude, pretty cool, but he was a little bit of a "knucklehead" when it came to speaking. The "funny" thing that this brother said, during his talk, that i have not forgotten till this day, was the following.
He was talking about "worldly" expressions, and how we dont have any, but maybe we SHOULD, have some, and how we should be looking forward to our meetings and service, not like the world looks forward to "their" things. So the brother says, "Yes, just like the world says T.G.I.F, for Thank God Its Friday", "but we as brothers and sisters should have our expression, So Happy Its Thursday, for our Thursday meeting".
At this point, i noticed some of the uppity bros and siss, squirming and shifting in their seats a bit. Later on, cause i was younger, my Father pointed out to me, that in the brother comparing T.G.I.F to "our" So Happy Its Thursday, would be S.H.I.T.
This knucklehead, from the platform, said our expression should be S.H.I.T, without realizing it. Because if you compare the "worlds" T.G.I.F( Thank God Its Friday), to ( So Happy Its Thursday) you get S.H.I.T. I still wonder till this day, did the brother know this, and was subliminally dropping this curse, or was he so stupid, and didnt even realize he told the congregation, he was visiting, that their expression should be SHIT. Either way, its good stuff.
It was funny, back then, watching all the stuffy, rich assholes in my congregation, looking around at each other, not sure what they should do, and "did he really just say that", sort of look.
Anyway, that was my funny story from the stage, that i remember. Sorry it was a little long, but i wanted to share it. Anybody else, got any funny stories from the stage, where the speaker had No idea what he just said?