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BS: 'Get down, Shep'
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Subject: 'Get down, Shep' From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Date: 20 Nov 01 - 05:59 AM If ever I saw a story crying out for a song thread... Guard dogs keep a flock at prayer FORTY parishioners spent longer than usual at prayer on Sunday when two guard dogs, trained to recognise only 20 people and bite anyone else, stationed themselves outside a church. The Rev Peter Chicken's sermon at St Philip's and St James' Church, Cheltenham, had included a reference to Daniel entering the lion's den. But when the service was over, his congregation preferred not to tackle the rottweiler and a mastiff roaming the churchyard. They had to be rescued by police who trapped the two animals. "They were more ferocious than the lions," Mr Chicken said yesterday. James Balneaves, 75, a chorister, was bitten on his buttocks on his way into church. "I could hardly sit down, but I sang the hymns," he said. (c)Electronic Telegraph RtS "Ain't nothin' but a guard dog...you done bit a choir boy, ain't no friend of mine") |
Subject: RE: BS: 'Get down, Shep' From: JudeL Date: 20 Nov 01 - 11:36 AM I know the church is looking for new ways to increase it's attendance but I think that's a bit too close to the fundamentals for my taste. |